3rd graders are learning about...

New to 3rd graders will be the recorder this year! You will find out more information about recorders in the coming weeks. Your child will be encouraged to keep their recorder with their folder in their backpack so it comes home for practice and back to school for class. Then they will always have it with them! 

If they forget their recorder, they will be provided a sanitized school recorder. School recorders are run through the kitchen sanitizer that the school dishes and silverware go through after each use.

Beat...drumset

Identifying note names...learning to read notes on the staff and transfer them to the piano, ukulele, and recorder.

Moving to music...

Rhythm...

Instruments in the orchestra...Woodwind, String, Brass, and Percussion families

Evaluating music...

Meter...4/4, 2/4, 3/4

Singing...

Playing the recorder...controlling their breath, embouchure (the way they hold their mouth, lips, tongue, etc. in order to play well), finger dexterity and covering the finger holes, reading music and playing the notes.