Instrument Play	Vocal	Beat/ Rhythm	Creating Music	Reading and Writing	Creative Movement	Dramatic Play/Games	Music Literature	Musical Expression
1	Use a variety of basic percussion instruments as improvised or directed accompaniments	Sing songs in various tonalities, keys and meters	Chant rhythmic rhymes and sing songs in various meters, including triple, duple and unusual	Imitate spontaneous music babble	Use movement to represent the visual placement of high and low pitches and voice play	Respond to music using a variety of small and large movement activities	Play peek‐a‐boo as a variation for a song or rhythmic rhyme	Respond to high quality live and recorded music, including a variety of styles, genres and cultural backgrounds	Respond to changes in dynamics
2	Experiment with found sounds on body and in enviroment to create accompaniments	Use vocal play to encourage vocal exploration and flexibility	Move to beat while chanting, singing or using an instrument	Explore the use of a variety of nonsense syllables in songs to encourage music babble	Use movement to represent musical form	Respond, through movement, to a variety of musical styles, genres, and cultural backgrounds	Use clapping or other finger play games as a variation for songs or rhythmic rhymes	Participate in music traditions from other cultures	Respond to the emotions and moods expressed in music
3	Explore high and low instrumental sounds	Experience high and low vocal sounds	Respond to rhythm patterns or parts of patterns while tapping to the beat	Explore new animal sounds and create animal conversations		Use all areas of space (low, middle, and high)	Create animal movements or sounds within the framework of a story line		Use facial expressions and participation to show musical preferences
4	Choose instruments for free musical play	Respond to tonal patterns	Move to macrobeat (big) and microbeat (little) beats	Continue to play/sing when the music stops (audiation)		Demonstrate an increase in movement vocabulary	Use imagination to create fantasy play		Use a fermata to convey a pause or anticipation
5	Uses variation in instrument play	Use singing to create social connections and community		Create accompaniments for an improvised musical jam session		Imitate movements representing a storyline, scene, character, or animal
6	Create new variations for instrument play	Use nonsense syllables for singing		Explore creating new lyric substitutions
7		Sing resting tone to establish key of song
8		Begin to sing songs accompanied and unaccompanied