Third Grade Music
- Learn dotted half note, sixteenth notes
- Experience melody through do pentatonic
- Sing simple melodies in a group
- Experience texture and harmony through bordun accompaniment and rounds/canons
- Learn dynamic markings - pianissimo through fortissimo
- Improvise simple melodies from a given rhythm
- Experience the brass family of instruments
September Songs & Concepts:
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Practicing putting line notes and space notes on the staff... and also showing our hand staff that we use to practice :)
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October Songs & Concepts:
- "The Happy Wanderer" (melody review do, re, mi, so, la)
- Rhythm Review quarter note, quarter rest, eighth note pairs, half note, half rest
- "El Floron (The Flower)" (A form)
- "Nigun Atik" (listening for AB form)
- "Sun Don't Set in the Mornin'" (ABA form, singing in 2 parts)
- "Boo" (singing in 2 parts, dynamics)
- "Danse Macabre" by Camille Saint-Saens (listening map)
November Songs & Concepts:
2. "Happy Wanderer"
3. "El Floron"
4. "Sun Don't Set in the Mornin'"
- "El Floron (The Flower)" (melody review do, re, mi, so, la, do')
- "Sun Don't Set in the Mornin'" (melody review do, re, mi, so, la, do')
- "Eh Soom Boo Kawaya (Nigerian Boat Song)" (half note)
- "Sun Don't Set in the Mornin'" (singing in 2 parts with a countermelody)
- Group singing skills: showing good posture, singing with accurate pitch, singing correct lyrics, staying with the piano
2. "Happy Wanderer"
3. "El Floron"
4. "Sun Don't Set in the Mornin'"
- Group singing assessment
December Songs & Concepts:
- Group singing skills: Perform and evaluate
- "This Land is Your Land"
- "Happy Wanderer"
- "El Floron"
- "Sun Don't Set in the Mornin'"
- Holiday Songs:
- "Deck the Hall"
- "Jingle Bells"
- "Frosty the Snowman"
- "The Chipmunk Song"
- "The Twelve Days of Christmas"
- "We Wish you a Merry Christmas"
- The Nutcracker Ballet story and music
January Songs & Concepts:
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Learning about the equal steps of step-hop that are often used in Native American dance steps.
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February Songs & Concepts:
- Pitch review with "En Roulant ma boule" (low so and low la)
- "This a Way and That a Way" (melody/leaps and octaves)
- "Out From the Wilderness" (repeated phrases and patterns)
- "Stevedore's Song" (phrases)
- "Spinning Song" by A. Ellmenreich (listening for phrases)
- Rhythm Square Game (review known rhythms: quarter note, quarter rest, eighth notes, half note, half rest, dotted half note, whole note, whole rest)
- Rhythm Writing Practice (review known rhythms: quarter note, quarter rest, eighth notes, half note, half rest, dotted half note, whole note, whole rest)
March Songs & Concepts:
- "Riding in the Buggy" (sixteenth notes/ostinato pattern)
- "There's a Little Wheel A-Turnin' in My Heart" (sixteenth notes/ostinato pattern)
- "Golden Ring Around the Susan Girl" (sixteenth notes)
- "Peas Porridge Hot" (improvising a melody on xylophones)
- "Star Light, Star Bright" (improvising a melody on xylophones)
April Songs & Concepts:
- "Peas Porridge Hot" (improvising a melody on xylophones)
- "Star Light, Star Bright" (improvising a melody on xylophones)
- "Yankee Doodle" (improvising a melody on xylophones)
- Improvising test on a song of their choice
- Review known signs and symbols in music
- "Rainbow Connection" (signs & symbols/coda)
- "Evergreen Everblue" (signs & symbols/D.C. al Fine)
- "William Tell Overture" (signs & symbols/dynamics)
- "Hello!" (signs & symbols/fermata)
May/June Songs & Concepts:
- Test on signs and symbols in music
- Four instrument families (strings, brass, woodwinds, percussion)
- Experience the brass family of instruments
- Review rhythms with Rhythm Telephone
- Review favorite songs!