• Listen attentively, move to and talk about music, expressing their feelings and responses.

• Watch and talk about dance and performance art, expressing their feelings and responses.

• Sing in a group or on their own, increasingly matching the pitch and following the melody.

• Develop storylines in their pretend play.

• Explore and engage in music making and dance, performing solo or in groups.

EARLY LEARNING GOALS

• Invent, adapt and recount narratives and stories with peers and their teacher.

• Sing a range of well-known nursery rhymes and songs.

• Perform songs, rhymes, poems and stories with others, and (when appropriate) try to move in time with music.

There is also a fairy tale castle and dressing up clothes to stimulate children's imagination and encourage story narratives, This will also be extended outside where the climbing frame will be transformed into a castle to reflect our class visit to Bodiam

We will be using craft supplies to create 'lifecycles' such as caterpillar to butterfly and tadpole to frog. Through teacher directed input we will explore colour and texture. The creative area is also available during child initiated play for children to use their own imaginations or with various 'set-up' activities for them to join in with. Tie dye and batik effects will reflect our African theme.