Instrument Play	Vocal	Beat/ Rhythm	Creating Music	Reading and Writing	Creative Movement	Dramatic Play/Games	Music Literature	Musical Expression
1	Explore a variety of gentle percussion instruments	Experience live singing and music‐ making	Experience rhythmic rhymes and fingerplays in various meters, including triple, duple and unusual	Babble spontaneously in response to music	Encourage reading through tracking activities	Experience a variety large and small movement activities in response to music	Play Peek‐a‐Boo games	Respond to high- quality live and recorded music, including a variety of styles, genres and cultural backgrounds throughout the day	Experience changes in dynamics
2	Explore found sounds using everyday items	Hear songs in a variety of tonalities and meters	Move in response to the beat of the rhythmic rhyme or song	Explore the use of a variety of nonsense syllables in songs to encourage music babble		Respond through movement, to a variety of musical styles, genres, and cultural backgrounds	Experience a variety of animal sounds	Experience cultural bedtime rituals using lullabies	Respond to the emotions and mood expressed in music
3	Interact with high and low instrumental sounds	Encourage babbling through vocal play	Feel a steady beat while hearing rhythm patterns, rhythmic rhymes or songs	Explore the use of a variety of animal sounds to encourage music babble		Move spontaneously in response to a song, chant or piece of music
4	Explore various ways to play rhythm instruments	Listen to tonal patterns	Experience microbeat (litte) and macrobeat (big)	Play with assorted rhythm instruments during an improvised musical jam session.		Move freely in response to a song, chant or piece of music
5		Experience vocal highs and lows
6		Use singing to create social connections and community