Subjects

Shows

  • Listen to constructive criticism and respond in a positive manner.

  • Further describe the character's wants and needs.

  • Compare and contrast emotions and thoughts evoked by performances.

  • Infer lessons from multicultural stories, fairy tales, tall tales, fables, and legends.

  • Identify the similarities and differences between live and recorded theatrical events.

  • Share how varied multimedia forms illustrate performances in one family's life.

  • Recognize that the arts are an expression and record of human life.

  • Compare the use of various materials to communicate ideas and sensory experiences in an artwork.

  • Play instrumental parts independently while other students sing.

  • Use a system to read quarter notes and rests, eighth notes, half notes, and whole notes.

  • Use a system to read pitch notation for a major scale.

  • Perform music with a variety of expressive qualities, articulation, and tempo.

  • Create through exploration, improvisation, and composition, rhythmic and melodic ostinati accompaniments.

  • Create through exploration, improvisation, and composition, answers that are rhythmic and melodic.

  • Create through exploration, improvisation, and composition, melodic embellishments for a familiar song.

  • Create an instrumental song with lyrics.

  • Use a variety of traditional and non-traditional sound sources and electronic media when composing, arranging, and improvising appropriate to 3rd [...]

  • Add vocal, instrumental, and physical responses to a selection presented in 3rd grade.

  • Identify round and canon when presented aurally.

  • Use invented or standard notation to transcribe increasingly difficult rhythms and melodies.

  • Describe the music performed and presented in 3rd grade by moving, drawing, or through other appropriate responses.

  • With teacher guidance, use music vocabulary to analyze, describe, and evaluate music of various styles.

  • Identify the timbre of specific instruments in string, brass, woodwinds, and percussion families.

  • Devise student created criteria for objective evaluation of performances and compositions.

  • Use music vocabulary to express personal reactions for musical works and styles.

  • Identify and describe distinguishing characteristics of contrasting styles.

  • Describe how elements of music are used in examples from world cultures, using music performed and presented in 3rd grade.

  • Demonstrate audience appropriate behavior for the context and style of music presented and performed in 3rd grade.

  • Select a human movement associated with a favorite sport or familiar work, execute the movement, and then change the movement [...]

  • Students attend a dance concert and discuss the experience.

  • Demonstrate the ability to create a dance study for presentation to peers.

  • Demonstrate the ability to vary non-locomotor movements in a number of ways. Give reasons for choices made.

  • Students are shown two diverse music films and discuss the similarities and differences in terms of one of the elements [...]

  • Students explore movements of a selected sport and abstract the inherent movement(s). Discuss the differences in human movement and the [...]

  • Students learn and perform dances from two countries. Selections should not involve dancing with a partner.

  • Ask parents or some other adults about dances done in their communities. Ask if the person will teach you the [...]

  • Students research information on a folk dance.

  • Students identify three personal goals such as executing turns, performing dance steps correctly, and the self confidence to create simple [...]

  • Identify safe/unsafe conditions, good health practices for the classroom, the school. Discuss how the findings affect their ability to create [...]

  • Demonstrate the ability to create a dance based on a favorite piece of music.

  • Respond to a dance film by demonstrating ability tocreate in another art form, and explain the connections between the dance [...]

  • Use developmentally appropriate singing voice, sing melodies accurately, and physically demonstrate macro and micro beat.

  • Continue to develop repertoire.

  • Sing and play expressively utilizing a broader continuum of dynamics and interpretation.

  • Sing melodies with confidence in a large group.

  • Blend timbres and match dynamic levels in response to the cues of the conductor.

  • Play rhythmic and chordal ostinati and melodies.

  • Expand the complexity of patterns.

  • Demonstrate basic locomotor skills through moving forward, backward, and sideways in both straight and curved lines.

  • Explore non-locomotor/axial movements (in personal space) using different parts of the body. Use directional changes.

Subjects

Shows

  • Listen to constructive criticism and respond in a positive manner.

  • Further describe the character's wants and needs.

  • Compare and contrast emotions and thoughts evoked by performances.

  • Infer lessons from multicultural stories, fairy tales, tall tales, fables, and legends.

  • Identify the similarities and differences between live and recorded theatrical events.

  • Share how varied multimedia forms illustrate performances in one family's life.

  • Recognize that the arts are an expression and record of human life.

  • Compare the use of various materials to communicate ideas and sensory experiences in an artwork.

  • Play instrumental parts independently while other students sing.

  • Use a system to read quarter notes and rests, eighth notes, half notes, and whole notes.

  • Use a system to read pitch notation for a major scale.

  • Perform music with a variety of expressive qualities, articulation, and tempo.

  • Create through exploration, improvisation, and composition, rhythmic and melodic ostinati accompaniments.

  • Create through exploration, improvisation, and composition, answers that are rhythmic and melodic.

  • Create through exploration, improvisation, and composition, melodic embellishments for a familiar song.

  • Create an instrumental song with lyrics.

  • Use a variety of traditional and non-traditional sound sources and electronic media when composing, arranging, and improvising appropriate to 3rd [...]

  • Add vocal, instrumental, and physical responses to a selection presented in 3rd grade.

  • Identify round and canon when presented aurally.

  • Use invented or standard notation to transcribe increasingly difficult rhythms and melodies.

  • Describe the music performed and presented in 3rd grade by moving, drawing, or through other appropriate responses.

  • With teacher guidance, use music vocabulary to analyze, describe, and evaluate music of various styles.

  • Identify the timbre of specific instruments in string, brass, woodwinds, and percussion families.

  • Devise student created criteria for objective evaluation of performances and compositions.

  • Use music vocabulary to express personal reactions for musical works and styles.

  • Identify and describe distinguishing characteristics of contrasting styles.

  • Describe how elements of music are used in examples from world cultures, using music performed and presented in 3rd grade.

  • Demonstrate audience appropriate behavior for the context and style of music presented and performed in 3rd grade.

  • Select a human movement associated with a favorite sport or familiar work, execute the movement, and then change the movement [...]

  • Students attend a dance concert and discuss the experience.

  • Demonstrate the ability to create a dance study for presentation to peers.

  • Demonstrate the ability to vary non-locomotor movements in a number of ways. Give reasons for choices made.

  • Students are shown two diverse music films and discuss the similarities and differences in terms of one of the elements [...]

  • Students explore movements of a selected sport and abstract the inherent movement(s). Discuss the differences in human movement and the [...]

  • Students learn and perform dances from two countries. Selections should not involve dancing with a partner.

  • Ask parents or some other adults about dances done in their communities. Ask if the person will teach you the [...]

  • Students research information on a folk dance.

  • Students identify three personal goals such as executing turns, performing dance steps correctly, and the self confidence to create simple [...]

  • Identify safe/unsafe conditions, good health practices for the classroom, the school. Discuss how the findings affect their ability to create [...]

  • Demonstrate the ability to create a dance based on a favorite piece of music.

  • Respond to a dance film by demonstrating ability tocreate in another art form, and explain the connections between the dance [...]

  • Use developmentally appropriate singing voice, sing melodies accurately, and physically demonstrate macro and micro beat.

  • Continue to develop repertoire.

  • Sing and play expressively utilizing a broader continuum of dynamics and interpretation.

  • Sing melodies with confidence in a large group.

  • Blend timbres and match dynamic levels in response to the cues of the conductor.

  • Play rhythmic and chordal ostinati and melodies.

  • Expand the complexity of patterns.

  • Demonstrate basic locomotor skills through moving forward, backward, and sideways in both straight and curved lines.

  • Explore non-locomotor/axial movements (in personal space) using different parts of the body. Use directional changes.