Third Grade
More Music Enrichment Resources
More Music Enrichment Resources
Third grade is a special time in music class! We have a lot of fun moving, singing, playing instruments and learning to read and write music according to the Music TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge & Skills) concepts for music.
Some things that we work on in class are:
- Rhythms: quarter, eighth, sixteenths notes and rests (through learning, playing, reading and writing)
- Musical intervals & pitches of the extended pentatonic scale using Kodaly-Curwen handsigns as well as reading and writing them on the music staff. The pentatonic scale (do, re, mi, so, la) is used.
- Folk dances and games from around the world!
- Listening and/or movement activities to a variety of music in different styles
- Solo & group singing of unison & rounds and canons
- Learning about composers and instrument families of the orchestra
- Playing instruments as an ensemble (xylophone/metallophone/glockenspiel, simple percussion instruments)