Create a composition using the elements of art and principles of design to communicate ideas.

Analyze elements of dramatic structure for successful classroom dramatization.

Respond to and build upon ideas of others' personal preferences for stage design.

Collaborate to extend and add on to improvised stories.

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.

Observe and identify similarities and differences in the meanings of common vocabulary used in the various 3rd grade arts.

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

Observe and identify cross-curricular connections within the 3rd grade curriculum.

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

Discuss the various rationales for using music in daily experiences.

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

Identify and describe different characters though vocal expression.

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

Dramatize real and non-real characters with prompting and side-coaching.

Illustrate characters, environments, and situations that support the creation of a classroom dramatization.

Paraphrase dialogue from a story to show different interpretations.

Manipulate simple scenery, costumes, sound, and props in the dramatic process.

Infer from a text, characters and setting in stories.

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.

Play instrumental parts independently while other students sing.

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

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

Identify and describe distinguishing characteristics of contrasting styles.

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

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

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

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

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.

Students attend a dance concert and discuss the experience.

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

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

Play rhythmic and chordal ostinati and melodies.

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

Expand the complexity of patterns.

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.