3rd Grade Music
What we do:
- Learn to read whole, half, dotted half, quarter and eighth notes and rests in 2/4, 3/4 and 4/4 meter signature
- Place notes on a staff
- Compose music
- Listen for sharps, flats and minor modalities, sing rounds and partner songs, and develop musical improvisation skills
How we do it:
- Work extensively with mood, dynamics and tempo, and listening, singing and performance emphasize a multicultural experience
- Play instruments, sing, movement
- Listen, create
- Performance and reflection
- Orff Schulwerk program: rhymes, games, simple beats, wooden xylophones and metal glockenspiels