Grade 3 Music

Welcome to Grade 3 Music Curriculum

Here you can find the resources for Grade 3 Music Curriculum, arranged by trimester and unit. Expand the trimester to reveal what your student will be working on.

Trimester 1

  • Unit 1.1 - Reading, Writing, and Performing


Whole note/rest, sixteenth-note patterns, eighth-quarter-eighth syncopation, dotted quarter/ eighth-dotted quarter, and dotted half note


Meters of 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, and 6/8


Patterns of pitch using solfege or absolute pitch letter names using treble clef


  • Unit 1.2 - Performance


Singing a varied repertoire of music from diverse cultures, including unison songs and patterns with musical accuracy


Playing songs on recorder, classroom instruments and body percussion


Trimester 2

  • Unit 2.1- Cultural and Historical Understanding


Using the terminology of music in discussing individual preferences for specific music from diverse cultures.

Identifying the use of music in various cultures and time periods through discussion about the cultures represented in the school population and beyond


  • Unit 2.2- Connecting Music to the Arts and/or Other Disciplines

Identifying ways other disciplines are interrelated with music using personal vocabulary, movement, or singing/playing

Trimester 3

  • Unit 3.1- Improvising, Composing and/or Arranging


Improvising answers in the same style to given melodic or rhythmic patterns


Composing and or arranging music to accompany readings or dramatizations


  • Unit 3.2- Analyze and/or Describe


Identifying and describing basic musical elements of pitch and rhythm in selected pieces of music


Identifying simple musical forms


Identifying individual timbres of instruments and voices in a variety of music


  • Unit 3.3- Evaluate


Use age appropriate music vocabulary to critique music


Use purposeful movement and drawings to demonstrate an awareness of the aesthetic qualities evoked by music


Grade 3 Music Curriculum Documents