3rd Grade

Quarter 2

Weeks 1 and 2:

Music Theory: Identifying bass clef notes

Music Listening: Classical Period of Music Overview, Mozart Biography, Listen to "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik"

Concert Prep: Rehearse, memorize, and polish concert songs for performance on December 11.

Weeks 3 and 4:

Music Theory: Identifying bass clef notes continued

Music Listening: Dalcroze/Orff Listening and Movement Piece: "Let's Take a Walk", Listen to Mozart's "Rondo Alla Turca" with classroom instruments, Listen to Edvard Grieg's "In the Hall of the Mountain King"

"Monster Mash" with Boomwhackers

Concert Prep: Rehearse, memorize, and polish concert songs for performance on December 11.

Weeks 5 and 6:

Music Theory: Grand Staff

Music Listening: Listen to Mozart's "12 Variations" with classroom instruments and sing with solfege, Listen to Peter Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker Suite"

Concert Prep: Rehearse, memorize, and polish concert songs for performance on December 11.

Weeks 7-11:

Concert Prep: Rehearse, memorize, and polish concert songs for performance on December 11.

Play music games

Listen to remaining movements of Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker"

Quarter 1

Weeks 1 and 2:

• Movement – 

• Down to the Baker’s Shop – identify ABA form

• Notation/Melody – 

• Week 1: Melodic Training using Sol-Mi-La cards; echo and sing 4 and 8 beat patterns

• Week 2: - Mystery Melody with various Sol-Mi-La patterns

• Notation/Rhythm – 

• Week 1: Rhythmic Training using ta, ti-ti, ti-ri-ti-ri, whole note hold it, and sh (quarter note, pairs of eighth notes, groups of 4 sixteenth notes, whole notes, and quarter rests) 

• Week 2: Mystery Rhythm with varying patterns (use percussion instruments to demonstrate understanding)

• Theory – 

• Week 1: “Music Alphabet, Types of Notes and Rests”, pgs. 1-2

• Week 2: “Drawing the Treble Clef and Treble Clef Lines and Spaces”, pgs. 3-4

• Boomwhackers/Science of Sound:

• Week 1: Introduce music staff with boomwhackers, “Boombox”: perform twelve, eight-beat “boxes” of patterns with the boomwhackers.

• Week 2: Identify high/low sounds due to the size of the instrument

• Music Listening:

• Week 1: Introduction to the Baroque Era

• Week 2: Strings Family Focus and “Four Seasons: Spring” by Antonio Vivaldi

Weeks 3 and 4:

 

• Notation/Melody – 

• Continue reviewing Sol-Mi-La, by add new note “Re” (one step below Mi) in daily Mystery Melodies

• Notation/Rhythm – 

• Continue reviewing quarter notes, pairs of eighth notes, half notes, whole notes, and quarter rests in daily Mystery Rhythms

• Rhythm Boom cards: flashcards with rhythms

• Theory – 

• Week 3: “Treble Clef Lines and Spaces”, pgs. 4-5

• Week 4: “Treble Clef Lines and Spaces”, pgs. 6-7

• Boomwhackers/Science of Sound:

• Boomwhacker version of “Minuet in G”, by J.S. Bach

• Music Listening:

• Week 3: Woodwind Family, Listen to “Little Fugue in G Minor”, by J.S. Bach

• Week 4: Brass Family, Listen to “Prelude and Fugue in C Minor”, by J.S. Bach

Weeks 5 and 6:

 

• Notation/Melody – 

• Pentatonic Scale: Do, Re, Mi, Sol, and La; Penta - 5 notes, Tonic - Sound

• Students will sight-read varying examples of the pentatonic scale.

• Notation/Rhythm – 

• Continue reviewing quarter notes, pairs of eighth notes, half notes, whole notes, and quarter rests in daily Mystery Rhythms

• New rhythmic symbol: whole rest (4 beats of silence)

• Theory – 

• Week 5: “Treble Clef Lines and Spaces”, pg. 7

• Week 6: "Drawing the Bass Clef"

• Music Listening:

• Week 5: Keyboard Family, Listen to "Pathetique" by Ludwig van Beethoven

• Week 6: Percussion Family, Listen to "Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra" by Benjamin Britten

• Concert Preparation: Continue to practice our holiday and winter songs for our concert on December 11! :)

 

Weeks 7 - 10:

• Notation/Melody – 
• Pentatonic Scale: Do, Re, Mi, Sol, and La
• Penta - Five, Tonic - Sound
• Students to sight-read varying patterns of the pentatonic scale.
• Notation/Rhythm – 
• Daily Mystery Rhythms include of variety of the following rhythmic symbols: quarter note, pair of eighth notes, quarter rest, half note, whole rest, half rest, and groups of four sixteenth notes.
• Theory – 
• "Bass Clef", pgs. 10-12
• Music Listening:
• G.F. Handel: Listen to "Water Music"
• Domenico Scarlatti: Listen to the "Cat's Fugue"
• Baroque Composer Jeopardy: Bach, Vivaldi, Handel, Scarlatti
• Science of Sound:
• Identify the terms;
• Pitch
• Volume
• Sound Waves
• Concert Preparation: Continue to practice our holiday and winter songs for our concert on December 11!