Use sources such as stories, poems, observations, visual images, music, sounds, or objects to inspire music making.

Observe sounds in a variety of settings, both natural (e.g., birds, animals, insects, wind, trees, water) and constructed (e.g., machinery, human-made objects in rural, urban, and reserve environments), and apply listening skills to own work.

Use own words to describe elemental characteristics of sounds (e.g., high/low and soft/loud) from a variety of settings and from own compositions.

Discuss how musicians and scientists use their senses to observe the world (e.g., listening to sound characteristics and patterns) and apply this understanding to own work.

Create and imitate sounds by experimenting with the voice and instruments.

Experiment with a variety of simple found objects and selected instruments, both pitched and unpitched.

Create sounds to convey particular patterns, images, or expressive qualities.

Describe basic decisions made in creating music expressions (e.g., sounds to be used in the piece, loud parts, soft parts, order of sounds).

Distinguish between own speaking voice and singing voice.

Begin to develop the ability to match pitch.

Clap, play, and move to beats and rhythmic patterns (e.g., in nursery rhymes, music, teaching stories, and legends).

Contribute to inquiry about elements of music (e.g., What sounds can we combine to make different patterns/rhythms?).

Demonstrate awareness of patterns of high/low and loud/soft sounds in own speech and music.

Identify and use sounds and instruments with distinctly different tone colours/timbres (e.g., triangle versus tambourine).