3rd+Grade

**__Third Grade__** [|FPS Music Curriculum, Third Grade] In Third Grade, students really focus on music literacy and composition. We primarily learn to read music using recorders. We read music by identifying scale patterns and solfege (Do Mi So, La Do Mi) as well as by reading music on the treble clef staff.  Click on the audio player below to hear Mrs. Haenick's Class Sonata! media type="file" key="Mrs. Haenick's Class.wav" width="270" height="46" align="center"

Sonata aompositions are created in class at the beginning of the year. Students learn about Sonata form first, and create a sonata as a class. In pairs, students write 3 different sonatas using 3 types of instrumentation and media. All students compose a sonata for drums, a sonata for tone-bar instruments (xylophone and metallophone), and a sonata using the computer program //Super Duper Music Looper//. Students love their sonatas!  Click on the picture below to hear some of our sonatas!