Creative arts

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Music

• Infuses music into routines and activities (e.g. sings to self while putting together a puzzle).
• Performs vocal and instrumental music of age-appropriate songs from memory and creates music from own imagination (e.g. makes up new songs, sings accompaniments to music, sings rounds with a group).
• Uses music to help tell a story (e.g. composes music to accompany a puppet show or play).
• Uses music for specific purposes (e.g. puts on marching music for outside play, sings a lullaby to a baby doll).
• May recognise how rhythm, tempo and tone are used in different types of music from around the world; for example, ‘Polka music is fast, so you have to dance fast’.

Art

• Creates art that is more realistic and includes many details of objects, places, animals or people (e.g. draws a picture of a person and includes fingers and hair). The subject of a piece of art is typically recognisable to others and has mostly realistic proportions.
• Uses art to help tell a story (e.g. makes a backdrop for a class play on ‘The Three Little Pigs’).
• Uses increasingly sophisticated planning, tools and techniques to create art (e.g. uses fine-bristled brushes to paint dots and thin lines with water colors). Is able to expand knowledge of art to include stitchery, woodworking and scupting with papier-mâché.
• Can describe and imitate the style of favourite artists (e.g. uses Cezanne’s painting of fruit bowls as a model for a drawing).

Movement

• Is able to perform planned and improvised movements and dance sequences (e.g. participates in a routine physical activity that involves squatting and touching toes).
• Is able to describe why a certain dance movement has been chosen (e.g. dances to a rap song and provides a rationale for the choreography).
• Seeks active games and environments as a part of daily activities (e.g. asks teacher when it will be time to play on the playground).

Dramatic play

• Is able to learn about other people and cultures by performing simple plays (e.g. participates in a school holiday pageant featuring stories about Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa).
• Creates skits that express personal thoughts, ideas and emotions (e.g. performs a short skit about the birth of a new sibling and the ‘horrors’ that event brings on).
• Creates own props to support dramatic play (e.g. makes costumes and scenery to make the dramatic play come alive).

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