These third graders are practicing notating pentatonic patterns.
Ask your child the difference between a major diatonic scale and a pentatonic scale.
When you see music notes, can you hear them in your head? These third graders can. Watch and listen.
Second Quarter Objectives
- read, notate, and perform rhythms
- read, notate, and perform melodic patterns
- understand musical terms: crescendo, decrescendo, fermata, repeat, 1st and 2nd endings, Fine, D.C.al Fine
- perform a crossover bordun accompaniment on Orff instruments
The Big Picture -Think about these questions:
- What do rhythm symbols tell us?
- What does the location of notes on a staff tell us?
- How is studying music like taking a trip?
- How do you travel through a piece of music?
- Why is organization important?
- Why is music considered a universal language?
Big Ideas:
- Knowing the language and culture of a place makes travel easier.
- Understanding musical language makes the study of music more meaningful.
- Sheet music is to a musician as a map is to a traveler.
- Organization provides a framework for ideas.
- Music is a reflection of culture.
First Quarter Objectives:
- demonstrate beat vs. rhythm
- read, create, perform, and notate rhythms
- perform an ostinato
- read, perform, and notate do-re-mi-sol-la patterns
- identify melodic direction as up, down, or same
- identify organizational terms: verse/refrain, measure, bar lines, double bar, meter signature
ACTIVITIES TO DO AT HOME
1. Teach your family or friends how to perform the
following poem with the ostinato.
2. Practice speaking and clapping the following rhythms.
3. Try singing the pitches below.
4. Watch the following videos to get a glimpse of music
in other countries.
The sitar is a musical instrument often played in India.
What happens to the tempo in this Irish music?
Perhaps you can sing along in Spanish!
