Elaborations

• using music to express and communicate experiences, observations, ideas and feelings about themselves and their world
• listening to and copying basic music elements, such as, playing loudly, quietly, quickly or slowly when using musical instruments for example imitating a teacher to play loud/soft/ quiet, quick/fast/slow and stop
• imitating a simple pattern or rhythm
• experimenting with speaking and singing voice to recognise the differences
• imitating rhythm patterns to develop aural recognition skills, for example, echo clapping
• attempting to imitate pitch when singing