Third Grade
Third Grade Music Curriculum
Third graders receive music instruction from a credentialed music specialist one day per week for 30 minutes. Students learn about music through lively activities including listening, singing, and moving to music. Children’s books, manipulatives, and singing games are incorporated into music lessons to help children learn basic music skills:
- sing age-appropriate songs from memory
- match pitch and develop healthy singing voice/head voice
- identify and demonstrate an understanding of do, mi so and la
- identify and demonstrate an understanding of rhythms including ta, titi, rest,ta-a, tiki-tiki, ti-tiki, tiki-ti (quarter, eighth, half, and sixteenth notes)
- identify and demonstrate new melodic notes re, low la and low so
- identify and demonstrate absolute pitch names of the treble staff
- identify and demonstrate the do pentatonic scale
- moving to music while playing simple dances and singing games
Assessment Guidelines
Report Cards are designed to give you an understanding of how well your child is meeting the music standards. Although music encompasses many areas of knowledge and abilities, each grade level will only be assessed on a few integral music skills per quarter. The music score on the report card reflects an average of the specific skills that were assessed for that quarter. It is important to understand that the music grade is no longer a conduct/effort grade, but rather an assessment of your child’s ability to accomplish the given music standard.
An Advanced (4) student will:
- Consistently demonstrate the application of music standards in other situations and areas of learning
- Always participate effectively in all music activities
- Demonstrate mastery of all music skills
A Proficient (3) student will:
- Always participate effectively in all music activities
- Demonstrate mastery of most music skills
A student that is Approaching Proficiency (2):
- Sometimes participates effectively in music activities
- Demonstrates mastery of some music skills
A student that is falling Below Expectations (1):
- Rarely participates effectively in music activities
- Demonstrates mastery of few music skills
Judith Chan, Vocal/General Music Specialist
Phone: (310) 551-5104
Email: [email protected]