Grade Three Year Plan

Month
September

October

November

Theme

Activities

Getting to know
you
Ms. Thorlaksons
Expectations
(Incorporating
Animal life cycles)
(Sept 7-30 6
classes)
Thanksgiving and
Halloween (Oct 331 7 classes)

Remembrance
(Nov 1-22 - 6
classes)

Day-

December

Christmas and
Winter
Celebrations
(Incorporate

Concepts/Skill
s

Curriculum

Follow the Leader

Up the Ladder
Rhythm Game
Row, Row, Row your boat
Concentration
Upward Trail
A Rig-A Jig Jig
Falling Leaves
Fuzzy Wuzzy
Remember Me
Follow the Leader
A Turkey Named Bert
Do at your Belly-Button
Falling Leaves
Im Thankful For
Sol-fa game
Indian Summer
Alouette
Double Trouble
Bells in the Steeple
Old Woman All Skin and
Bones
Bats
Little Tommy Tinker
The Halloween Cat
Four Beats After
Prepare Dotted Half Note
When Johnny Comes
Marching Home
Song of the Peace Pact
Label Dotted Half Note
Peace Like a River
Friendship
Let There Be Peace on
Earth

Tah/ti-ti/tah-ah/tahah-ah-ah note and

rest review
Rounds and partner
songs (2 melodies
at once)

R9 Beats and silences have specific

duration(ta/ti-ti/ta-a/ta-a-a-a)
H5 Two or more melodies can occur
simultaneously (rounds, partner songs,
descants)
M11 Move to round or cannon form
S14 Sing two-part rounds and simple
descants
S18 Sing partner and nonsense songs

Review 2/4, 3/4,

and 4/4 meter
Meter can change
within a piece
Introduce low la,
low so, and low
do into solfege
hand signals

R11 Beats may be grouped in 2s or 3s

R13 A time signature tells how beats are
grouped in a measure
S12 Extend the use of sol-fa training with
hand signals to include low la, so and high
do
RW19 Recognize 4/4 time signature
RW20 Continue sol-fa training to include low
la and low so and high do

Durations are
extended by a
dot, tie, or a
fermata
Ostinato (repeated
pattern)

Follow the Leader

I love the Holidays
Burn Little Candles
Jolly Old St. Nicholas
Dancing Snowflakes

Musical phrases can

be long or short
Recognize phrase
symbol

R10 Duration is extended by a dot, a tie, or

a fermata
H6 The I and V7 chords may be used to
accompany melodies
F8 Music may be accompanied by a
repeated pattern (ostinato)
S13 Sing ostinato patterns with songs
RW18 Recognize the dotted half note, the
concept of the dot, and the fermata
C8 Create rhythmic and melodic ostinato for
poems and songs
F7 Musical phrases, which give organization
to music, may be short or long
RW21 Recognize the symbol for a phrase

connecting with
the world India,
Tunisia, Ukraine,
Peru) (Nov 29-Dec
23 8 classes)
Hanukah
Christmas
Secular
Kwanzaa
Winter Solstice
New Years Day

Nutcracker mini-unit
The Twelve Days of
Christmas
Christmas Round
Let There Be Peace on Earth
The Canadian 12 Days of
Christmas
We Wish you a Merry
Christmas
Readers Theatre