Music: Grade 3
Revised August 2014
Unit 1: Beginning Year activities
Week Topic
1
2
3
Getting
acquainted with
each other, the
music room and
reviewing rules
and procedures
Various
languages to
sing hello,
introduction of
Alma Mater
Up & Down
movement of
Melody
Eligible
Content/
Standards
Details
Resources
9.1, 9.3
Songs and movement to review names and meeting one another
I’ve Got to Move Book
and CD
9.1,9.2, 9.3
Learn song through listening and echoing that sings Hello in 3 different languages.
Introduce the Alma Mater, the meaning of the words within the Alma Mater, what an Alma
Mater is and where it came from. Learn song through echo singing
9.1, 9.2, 9.3
Rocky Mountain/up and down movement of melody/what is melody/what is phrase/phrases
within the melody/beats per phrase/movement with partners
Sabre Dance/what is ballet/up and down movement of melody/form (rondo)
3rd gr. Share the
Music Bk. And CD
Alma Mater words
are on smart board
Share the Music 3 bk.
& CD & listening map
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Unit 2: Halloween/Veteran’s Day/Christmas
Topic
1
2
3
4
Veteran’s Day
Mood &
Dynamics
Christmas
Program
Mood
Christmas
Program
Mood/question
& answer song
Christmas
Program
Eligible
Content/
Standards
Details
Resources
Video of Caisson song
Papers with words for
Caisson song
Share the music 3 bk. &
CD
Spotlight 3 bk. & CD
& listening map
Ribbons
Christmas program
book and CD
9.1, 9.2
Talk about Veteran’s Day and the branches of the armed forces
Show video of Caisson song/echo sing and sing
Review Rocky Mountain, and Alma Mater
9.1, 9.2, 9.3,
9.4
Caisson Song
Danse Macabre/picture of Camille St. Saens/follow listening map/use ribbons to follow
pattern to show the mood and dynamics
Talk about Christmas Program and work on first song
9.1, 9.3
Caisson Song
Work on Christmas Program songs
Halloween song/moving arms to show mood of OOH
Spotlight 3 bk. & CD
Christmas music & CD
9.1, 9.3
Caisson Song
Halloween song/what is the mood/question & answer/octave/meaning of X
Christmas Program
Share the Music 3 Bk.
& CD
5
rest
9.1,
Caisson Song
Christmas Program songs
Halloween Night/review rests/add rhythm instruments
6
Christmas
Program &
movement
9.1
Veteran’s Day songs
Christmas Program songs/learn movements
Christmas music &
CD
7 till
Christmas
Christmas
Program
9.1
Christmas Program songs and movement
Christmas music &
CD
Share the Music 3 bk. &
CD
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Music: Grade 3
Unit 3: Spirituals
1
Spirituals
2
Spirituals and
Partner songs
9.1, 9.2, 9.3
3
Spirituals
Fractions
Phrase
9.1, 9.3
9.1, 9.2, 9.3
>Woke Up This Morning/explain what a spiritual is/talk about Martin Luther King/call & response
song/explain 2 various types of call & response/listen and decide which type this is/sing
>Turn the Glasses Over/read rhythm of song/spiritual/listen and sing/perform movement/
>Now Let Me Fly/spiritual/discuss the meaning of the song/talk about spirituals and how they
contained coded messages for the slaves/listen and find codes/discuss what a chariot is/sing
>Ezekiel Saw the Wheel/spiritual/listen/discuss what the wheel is/sing
>Twice the Flight/partner songs with above 2 songs/find similar lines in the songs/split calss and
each sing a song
>Draw a Bucket of Water/African American singing game/listen/figure out the fractions as they
apply to the song/AB form/perform movement
>There’s a Little Wheel A-Turnin in My Heart/introduce phrase/listen/determine where the
phrases begin and end/find similar phrases/sing
Spotlight bk. 3 & CD
Share the Music bk. 3
& CD
Share the Music bk. 3
& CD
Spotlight bk. 3 & CD
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Topic
Eligible
Content/
Standards
Details
Resources
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Unit 4: Historical songs
Topic
1
Yodeling
Abraham Lincoln
2
Valentine’s Day
Eligible
Content/
Standards
9.1, 9.2, 9.3
Details
>The Alpine Song/where is Austria/show on map/discuss yodeling, avalanche,St.
Bernard/cumulative song/sing refrain/add motions/split class into group for the cumulative and
perform
>Out From the Wilderness/read about Abraham Lincoln/listen/find similar parts/clap the rhythm
of the similar parts/play that rhythm on rhythm sticks/sing
>This a Way and That a Way/talk about the history of Valentine’s Day/listen and determine the
phrasing in the refrain/explain DC al Fine/sing
>Never Gonna Be Your Valentine/read rhythm/listen and sing/choose partner and perform
movement
Resources
Share the Music bk. 3 &
CD
Spotlight bk. 3 & CD
Rhythm sticks
Spotlight bk. 3 & CD
Share the Music Bk. 3
& CD
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Unit 5: American Theme
1
2
Dotted Half
Note
Phrase
Dotted Half Note
9.1, 9.2
>American the Beautiful/sing/find dotted half note at end of each
line/explain the value of dotted half note and that it equals 3
du’s/explain the meaning of the dot/clap the note as singing/use finger
cymbals and triangles for the dotted half notes/each line is a phrase
(musical sentence)
>perform rhythm cards with dotted half note
>You’re a Grand Old Flag/listen/echo sing 2 lines at a time and
determine that 2 lines are a phrase/march the phrases/pass out the
word cards for the phrases and ask a student to put them in
order/sing/make a human flag by using red and white tablecloths and
stars/show phrases by marching the phrase while holding the stars and
stripes
>Old Paint/echo sing and determine lines that are similar/find dotted half note and review/use
claves and finger cymbals to keep the beat/split class and sing 2 parts
>Old Brass Wagon/listen/discuss what each verse says/add movement
Share the Music
bk. 3 & CD
Spotlight bk. 3 &
CD
Finger cymbals and
triangles
Rhythm cards
Red and white
stripes and stars
Share the Music bk. 3 &
CD
Rhythm cards
Finger cymbals and claves
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Music: Grade 3
Unit 6: Around the World
1
2
3
Japan
Ireland
16th notes
France
Rounds
4
Spain
5
Completion of
Around the
World
>I Feel the Music of the World a Turning/show powerpoint/listen and
sing only 1st verse
>discussion about Asia/show on map/find Japan on map/view power
point slides of Japan
>Chi Chi pa pa/listen/talk about the meaning of the song/teach
pronunciation/teach melody with Kodaly/sing/use Orff xylophones to
play an ostinato while singing
>passports and write 3 things they learned about Japan
Spotlight bk. 3 &
CD
Share the Music
bk. 3 & CD
Power point
Xylophones
Passports
pencils
9.1, 9.2
>bagpipe recording as they walk in
>power point on Ireland
>you tube video of river dance
>Mrs. Murphy’s Chowder/listen/echo speak the refrain and find the new note/look at slide of 16th
note and call it du da de da/realize where these 16th notes are used in the music/use rhythm sticks
to drum the du da de da’s
>pass out rhythm cards and only 1 student with a 16th note card/each student says their rhythm
>pass out passports and answer 3 questions
9.1, 9.2, 9.3
>power point of France
>Madeline’s Rescue bk./read and talk about the pictures that show the French culture
>Frere Jacques/listen/echo sing French/sing English/determine what parts are similar/use
boomwhackers to accompany song/listen to the canon/explain what a canon is (round)/split class
and sing in canon form
>passports and answer three questions
9.1, 9.2, 9.3
>Power point of Spain/Isabella and the Troll/read story/learn song for Isabella and accompany this
using xylophones/use rhythm instruments for sounds in the story
>Mama Paquita/listen/sing and determine the high and low parts of the melody/discuss what
instruments would sound good/play and sing/teach and perform movement
9.1, 9.3
>Mariachi Rondo/view listening map on smart board/listen and discuss instruments in Mariachi
band/use 3 chosen rhythm instruments to perform with/determine that this is a Rondo
>discuss the 4 countries visited and which they like best and why
>passports/answer 3 questions
Share the Music bk. 3 &
CD
Spotlight bk. 3 and CD
Power Point
You tube video
Rhythm sticks
Rhythm cards
Passports and pencils
Power point
Madeline’s Rescue
book
Share the Music bk.
& CD
Boomwhackers
Passports and pencils
Power point of Spain
Spotlight bk. 3 & CD
Various rhythm
instruments
Share the Music gr. 3
bk. & CD
Passports & pencils
Share the Music bk. 3
& CD
Listening map
Passports and pencils
9.1, 9.2,
9.3, 9.4
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Music: Grade 3
Unit 7: Rounds/harmony
1
Round
16th note
review
crescendo
2
Rounds
dynamics
>discuss the round we sang while in France
>Salamanca Market/listen/find the 16th notes that we learned in
Ireland/read rhythm/sing/listen to the round/split class and sing in
round/perform movement
9.1, 9.2, 9.3 >Overture to the Marriage of Figaro/view pictures of Mozart and read
about him/look at rhythms in the book that used in this work/view
listening map and explain what the sections represent/listen/explain
what da capo al coda means/what a coda is/crescendo/use breathing
ball to explain this
9.1
>Jickety Can/Speech piece/listen and repeat/find dynamic markings and perform with
dynamics/listen to the round/split class and perform in round
Share the Music
bk. 3 & CD
Listening map
Breathing ball
Share the Music bk. 3 &
CD
Forte and piano cards
Breathing ball or umbrella
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Music: Grade 3
Unit 8: Staff Reading
1,
2, Explaining staff
3
9.1
>look staff on board/how many lines and spaces/number them from
bottom to top/show a line note and a space note/show the treble clef
(G clef)/show step by step how to draw a treble clef/practice drawing
several clefs
>showing notes on the staff have students tell if they are on a line or a
space and what number/show how each line and space has a letter
name/the saying for the lines/use pre made activity on smart board to
put notes on a particular line/flash the cards for the line notes/around
the circle pass out staff boards and pretzels and them on the line that I
name
>tell them the spaces spell FACE and flash some space flash cards/have
students place colored notes on board for correct note
>play note twister with 3 large staffs
>discuss the different types of notes (whole, half, quarter, eighth, and
16th/practice writing various notes on staff paper
>complete note worksheet
Staff on board
Smart board with
pre made activity
Staff paper and
pencils
Colored magnet
notes
Note flash cards
Staff boards
Pretzel nuggets
Note twister staffs
Note worksheet
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Music: Grade 3
Unit 9: Mary Poppins/Musicals
>discuss what a musical is
>explain that we will be viewing Mary Poppins
>listen and sing Chim-chim-cheree and Spoonful of Sugar
>begin viewing Mary Poppins
Music for Mary
Poppins
Mary Poppins DVD
Mary Poppins Music
Mary Poppins DVD
1
What is a
musical?
Mary Poppins
2
Mary Poppins
9.1
>listen and sing Supercalifragilistice
>continue viewing Mary Poppins
3
Mary Poppins
9.1
>listen and sing Step in Time and Let’s Go Fly a Kite
9.1, 9.3
Mary Poppins music
Mary Poppins DVD