Music Secular Homeschool Curriculum Skills List | Third Grade

Music activities are designed to improve the child’s motor skills, listening skills, self-discipline, vocabulary and language skills, social skills, and cultural understanding. Studying music nurtures creativity and builds self-confidence as the child learns to coordinate his movements in rhythm to music.

• Continue to develop a basic music vocabulary.
• Demonstrate dynamics and tempo.
• Listen to and sing various types of music: patriotic, folk, seasonal, spirituals.
• Continue to improve coordination and express creativity through motions that keep time with music.
• Develop an ability to understand a song’s message.
• Compare styles of music.
• Repeat rhythmic patterns using clapping or instruments.
• Perform body movements in rhythm with music.
• Recognize a whole note/rest, quarter note/rest, half note/rest, and eighth note.
• Understand the meaning of a time signature in music.
• Perform written rhythmic patterns: whole note/rest, quarter note/rest, half note/rest, eighth note.
• Create a rhythmic composition.