Grade 3

Create Perform Respond Music Literacy
  • Improvise simple melodies vocally and/or instrumentally
  • Select appropriate instruments to compliment music of various cultures
  • Create dance to express musical ideas
  • Create introductions, interludes and codas
  • Sing 2-part rounds
  • Respond to cues of conductor relating to dynamics, phrasing and interpretation
  • Perform rounds on pitched or non-pitched instruments
  • Sing songs , play musical games and perform dances from various cultures
  • Demonstrate good singing habits: posture, breathing
  • Develop awareness of articulation and diction
  • Sing songs in pentatonic, major and minor
  • Demonstrate appropriate performance behavior
  • Identify basic elements of form: AB forms, verse/ refrain, rondo
  • Recognize & describe timbre of  instruments, orchestral & folk, multicultural
  • Use appropriate terminology to describe basic elements of music
  • Devise simple criteria for evaluating music
  • Identify ways in which the elements & principles of music are interrelated with other disciplines
  • Demonstrate appropriate audience behavior
  • Compare/contrast compositions
  • Begin to associate music with specific historical periods and composers
  • Follow a listening map
  • Read standard notation for quarter notes, eighth notes, quarter notes and half notes, dotted half notes, whole notes, whole rests
  • Take simple melodic and rhythmic notation
  • Read in ¾ meter
  • Write musical ideas in standard or nonstandard notation
  • Identify symbols for dynamics