3rd Grade
Things we learn:
>Singing alone and with others
>Playing instruments
>Reading and writing music notes
>Major and minor tonalities
>Dynamics: pp, p, mp, mf, f, ff
>Time signatures (meter)
>Articulation - starting each note on recorders
>Whole notes and rests
>Dotted half notes and rests
>Half notes and rests
>Quarter notes and rests
>Eighth notes
>AB Form, Rondo Form (ABACA), Verse & Refrain
>Orchestral Instruments
Colorado State Standards and Grade Level Expectations:
Standard 1: Expression
Perform phrases demonstrating learned rhythmic, melodic, and chordal accompaniment components. (rhythmic and melodic ostinati)
Perform notated songs with accurate pitch, rhythm, harmony, tone and expressive elements. (Perform 2-part songs)
Apply teacher and peer critique and self-reflection to refine individual technique and performance of simple notated songs.
Standard 2: Creation of Music
Compose, improvise and arrange in known musical forms using rhythm and/or pitch.
Standard 3: Theory of Music
Identify and demonstrate notated melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic patterns within the treble staff. (lines and spaces; sixteenths and dots; tonic/dominant)
Identify and demonstrate gradual tempos, dynamics, and articulations. (accelerando/rit.; cresc/descresc; legato/staccato)
Identify and demonstrate advanced form, meter, timbre elements. (rondo; 2/4, ¾, 4/4; aurally identify instrument families)
Standard 4: Aesthetic Valuation of Music
Select and use specific criteria in making judgments about the quality of a musical performance.
Identify differences and commonalities in music from various cultures.