3rd Grade Music Curriculum

2016-2017

CCGS Music Program

Dates:
1st and 3rd Grade:

Yorkville CUSD 115

Throughout the school year, students will focus on

the following topics:
Rhythm

Form

Compose and perform a piece in AB pattern

Read and Perform Repeat signs

December 1st at 6:00 P.M.

Yorkville Intermediate
School Gym
Kindergarten and 2nd
Grade:
March 21st at 6:00 P.M.
Yorkville Intermediate
School Gym

Music Grades:

Identify rhythmic patterns, including

whole note, whole rest and four sixteenth notes

Read rhythmic patterns

Compose and Perform rhythmic patterns

Define and utilize a time signature

Melody

Identify and Perform Different Dynamics

Identify and Perform Different Tempos

Identify and Perform Different Articulations

Identify and describe Major and Minor

Compose simple pentatonic melodies

Reflection

Improvise an answer to a melodic question with voices and instruments

Performance and Audience behavior

Musical Opinion

Evaluate performances

Performance

Duet versus Trio

Participation

Bordun versus Ostinato

Musicianship

Explore the 4 instrument families

Identify different orchestral instruments

Perform patterns on the Treble Clef

Timbre and Texture

Follow our music adventures

Grading Scale:

N=Needs improvement

Describe melodic contour

P=Progressing toward
standard

Expression

Each quarter students

receive a grade on their
report card for each
category:

M= Meets standard

Circle Center Grade School

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Thank you for your support,
Jackie Niner
jniner@y115.org
630-553-4388

Music History and Culture

Explore and analyze the instruments, texture and characters in Peter and the Wolf