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CRUMPTON MUSIC

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

Last Updated: July 2022