Aspect 1: Environmental sounds

• Development of listening skills and awareness of sounds in the environment.
• Can identify differences between sounds.
• Begin to discuss sounds in further detail.

Aspect 2: Instrumental Sounds

• Develop awareness of the different sounds instruments make.
• Can listen to the different sounds instruments make.
• Develop a broader vocabulary and use to discuss instrumental sounds.

Aspect 3: Body percussion

• Develop an understanding and awareness of sounds and rhythms.
• Listen to and remember patterns in sounds.
• Talk about and make different sounds with our bodies.

Aspect 4: Rhythm and Rhyme

• Develop awareness and appreciation of rhythm and rhyme with speech.

Aspect 5: Alliteration

• Can identify and hear sounds at the beginning of words and their differences.
• Explore and practise articulation of different sounds.

Aspect 6: Voice sounds

• Exploration and discussion of different vocal sounds that can be made.

Aspect 7: Oral blending and segmenting

• Listen to different sounds in words and remember them in the order in which they occur.