Music Curriculum
3rd Grade
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Course Purpose: |
Students will engage in the practice and preparation of music, with guidance, on the recorder and master more complicated folk and cultural dances. |
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Outcome # |
Outcome |
| FA.3M.1 | Students will play a basic pentatonic scale (D, E, G, A, B), improvised, and written music on a soprano recorder with proper technique. |
| FA.3M.2 | Students will move freely about the space, responding to recorded music through movement, and will make connections about the composer of the day on a historical, instrumental, and/or stylistic level. |
| FA.3M.3 | Students will read and perform ledger line notes on the treble clef, sixteenth notes and syncopated rhythms, both on syllables and numerically. |
| FA.3M.4 | Students will perform a selection of age and range-appropriate pieces from various cultures and traditions, both vocally and instrumentally. |
| FA.3M.5 | Students will discuss ways music can tell a story, perform extended dynamics and perform and conduct in duple meter (simple and compound), through the analysis of a standard orchestral work. |
| FA.3M.6 | Students will use analysis and performance of classroom songs to describe, create, and perform a do-based and la-based pentatonic scale and various do-based and la-based pentatonic songs, alone and as a canon/round/partner song. |
| FA.3M.7 | Students will improvise and compose (with standard notation), pentatonic melodies in both rondo form and ABA form, on both pitched and unpitched instruments. |
| FA.3M.8 | Students will contrast different dance forms and music from different cultures and traditions, through performing folk dances. |