Grade 3 Curriculum

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Unit 1: Musical Symbols
Essential Questions:

• How do we write down and share music?
  
• What does music look like?
  
• How can I share my own music?
  

Enduring Understandings:

• We use the musical staff to write down and read music.
  
• Each line and space on the treble staff mean different notes, and we remember them by using Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge for the lines and FACE for the spaces.
  
• I can use the staff to read music or to write down my own.
  

Objective:

• Read pitches off the treble staff/ review rhythms 
  
• Be able to write notation
• Learn how to perform and keep a steady beat together while reading notation

Skills associated with objective:

• Learn the staff and the pitches it represents
  
• Create ostinato using all rhythms learned in Grade 2 plus dotted half
  
• Perform rhythmic ostinatos with others

Unit 2: Recorder Exploration
Essential Questions:

• How do we play in an instrumental ensemble?
  
• How does an instrumentalist act, look like, and sound like?
  
• How do I put on a successful concert?
  

Enduring Understandings:

• In order to stay together in an ensemble, we must listen to each other and watch the conductor.
  
• The more I practice my instrument, the more I will learn and be able to play successfully.
  
• Making music is a gift that is made to share with others.
  

Objective:

• Play the recorder alone and with others
  
• Understand the importance of practice first hand
  
• Learn the responsibility required to learn how to play and care for an instrument
  
• Put on a concert for the school
  

Skills associated with objective:

• Learn the treble recorder: fingerings, tonguing, breathing, playing songs together, echoing, and improvising
  
• Revisit Grade 2 community music strategies: do these help to make music as an ensemble?
  
• Play music together, alone, for people (concert)
  
• Demonstrate concert etiquette in a formal setting
  
• Compose using recorders (after concert)
  
• Connect solfeg with scale on the recorder (ear training)
  

By the End of Grade 3:

• Read rhythms with eighths, quarters, half, dotted half
  
• Be able to identify pitches on the treble staff
  
• Be able to play B, A, G, E, D, (high D and C) on recorder
  
• Put on a concert