Music, Nursery

Being Creative - Responding to Experiences, Expressing and Communicating Ideas

  • Capture experiences and responses with music, dance, paint and other materials or words
  • Develop preferences for forms of expression
  • Explore and experience using a range of senses and movement
  • Use language and other forms of communication to share the things they create, or to indicate personal satisfaction or frustration 

Creating Music and Dance

  • Tap out simple repeated rhythms and make some up
  • Sing a few familiar songs
  • Sing to themselves and make up simple songs
  • Explore and learn how sounds can be changed
  • Imitate and create movement in response to music
  • Enjoy joining in with dancing and ring games