3rd Grade Music Class

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Here are some of the focus areas for third grade music experiences: 

• interpreting, arranging, improvising, & composing music and movement
• singing & playing songs and poems in Spanish & English 
• proper singing technique
  
• performing, reading, and writing compound rhythms 
• "skipping meter": three-eighths, quarter-eighth, & dotted quarter notes
• performing, reading, & writing melodies with two, three, and four notes
• performing on mallet percussion & hand percussion