State Music Standards
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Reads, writes, and creates using rhythms including half and whole notes and rests
- Understands and uses crescendo/decrescendo
- Understands that sounds are produced by vibrations
- Identifies and uses the following musical notation: bar line, measure, time signature, fermata, repeat sign
- Identifies and performs simple musical forms (i.e.; verse-refrain, round/canon)
- Understands how combinations of steps, leaps, and repeated notes make up a melody
- Aurally discriminates between same and different melodic phrases
- Aurally discriminates between unison and harmony
- Sings rounds and partner songs
- Aurally recognizes rhythmic sets of twos and threes
- Plays various unpitched percussion instruments showing appropriate care
- Describes the differences in style between two artworks
- Applies previously learned arts concepts, vocabulary, skills, and techniques through a creative process
- Applies previously learned arts concepts, vocabulary, skills and techniques through a performance process
- Applies previously learned arts concepts, vocabulary, skills and techniques through a responding process
- Identifies how ideas are expressed through the arts
- Uses the arts to communicate for a specific purpose (i.e. inform, motivate)
- Recognizes that aesthetic choices are influenced by environment and experience
- Identifies common compositional elements through arts disciplines
- Applies arts knowledge and skills to reinforce learnings in other content areas
- Identifies how the arts impact choice of activities outside of school
- Recognizes that artworks reflect culture
- Identifies career roles in the arts
- Meets goals and deadlines to complete work
Music in Third Grade
Classroom Activities
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Dance and Movement
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Voice
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Instruments
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Listening
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Integrated Curriculum
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Celebrations of Light