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3rd Grade Music

Grade 3 Music builds comprehensive musicianship through singing, rhythm, notation, recorder, and music appreciation. Students develop sight-singing with the full major scale, read and write music notation in multiple keys, master syncopation and polyrhythms, achieve recorder proficiency, and explore music history while learning hymns and worship songs that deepen their faith. All instruction is designed for parents with no musical background.

180Lessons
36Weeks
30Min/Day

Year-Long Goals

1

Sight-sing diatonic melodies using the full major scale with confidence

2

Read and write music notation in C, G, and F major, including dotted rhythms and ties

3

Play recorder with full octave range and perform solos from notation

4

Sing two-part songs confidently and interpret music with appropriate expression

5

Perform syncopated rhythms and conduct in 4/4 and 3/4 time signatures

6

Compose 8-measure melodies with proper form and structure

7

Identify major and minor tonality and understand their emotional qualities

8

Learn the stories behind classic hymns and connect music to faith history

9

Build a repertoire of 20+ hymns and worship songs for family and church worship

36-Week Scope & Sequence

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Week 1Welcome to Third Grade Music: Reviewing and Reaching Higher🎡 It Is Well With My Soul
Week 2Do-Re-Mi and Beyond: Expanding Our Musical Alphabet🎡 It Is Well With My Soul (continued)
Week 3Keys Unlock Doors: Introduction to Key Signatures🎡 What a Friend We Have in Jesus
Week 4Two-Part Harmony: Singing Together🎡 What a Friend We Have in Jesus (harmony)
Week 5Dotted Rhythms and Ties: Adding Musical Flavor🎡 Blessed Assurance
Week 6Recorder Repertoire: Building Skills Note by Note🎡 Blessed Assurance (continued)
Week 7Major and Minor: The Moods of Music🎡 Great Are You Lord
Week 8Syncopation Station: Rhythms That Surprise🎡 Great Are You Lord (continued)
Week 9Conducting: Leading the Music🎡 Build My Life
Week 10Composition Workshop: Creating Our Own Melodies🎡 Build My Life (continued)
Week 11Music History: The Baroque Masters🎡 Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (excerpt)
Week 12Polyrhythm Play: Two Against Three🎡 Review repertoire
Week 13Hymn Study: Stories of Faith Through Song🎡 Amazing Grace
Week 14Recorder Solos: Performance Preparation🎡 Amazing Grace (recorder arrangement)
Week 15Form and Structure: How Music Is Organized🎡 How Great Is Our God
Week 16Sight-Singing Challenge: Reading New Music🎡 How Great Is Our God (continued)
Week 17Music from Around the World🎡 All Creatures of Our God and King
Week 18Mid-Year Review and Celebration🎡 Repertoire review
Week 19Dynamics: The Volume of Expression🎡 10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord)
Week 20Tempo: The Speed of Music🎡 10,000 Reasons (continued)
Week 21Advanced Recorder Techniques🎡 Simple Gifts (recorder arrangement)
Week 22Composing with Structure: ABA Form🎡 Be Thou My Vision
Week 23Hymn Study: Ancient and Modern🎡 Be Thou My Vision
Week 24Music History: The Classical Period🎡 Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee
Week 25Reading Rhythms: Compound Time🎡 Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee (continued)
Week 26Two-Part Singing Mastery🎡 In Christ Alone (verse)
Week 27Instruments of the Orchestra🎡 In Christ Alone (continued)
Week 28Advanced Sight-Singing🎡 Crown Him with Many Crowns
Week 29Gospel Music and Spirituals🎡 Go Tell It on the Mountain
Week 30Composition Project: Creating a Worship Song🎡 Original composition
Week 31Music History: The Romantic Period🎡 Great Is Thy Faithfulness
Week 32Recorder Performance Project🎡 Great Is Thy Faithfulness (recorder)
Week 33Contemporary Christian Music🎡 Way Maker
Week 34Music Theory Mastery🎡 Review repertoire
Week 35Year-End Recital Preparation🎡 All repertoire
Week 36Celebration and Looking Forward🎡 All favorites

Ready to Begin?

Start with Day 1 and work through at your own pace. Each lesson builds on the last!