Summary Aliona Pavliukova Alternation of the complex game-based activity and musical activity in the first – the third forms of the primary school The content of the Postgraduate work comprises the analysis of a child’s activity alternation orientated towards his/her self-expression. Learning becomes a new and basic activity at an elementary schools stage. This kind of practice requires the new content of the activity, experience, intellectual efforts and thinking from the child. The learning must be based on the natural child’s activity integrating a certain amount of knowledge in it. The learning experience and demand to learn start to ripen. At a junior school stage the key activity corresponding the characteristics of the child’s maturity, his experience, inner world is the one of the complex game-based activity. It means that the activity is orientated towards the child’s self-expression. When the child grows up and starts to gets mature, his needs, interests change together with the self-expression’s potentiality. The complex game-based activity step by step turns into the musical activity. The musical activity is available only by keeping the child’s natural activity and integrating the knowledge of the Art discipline in it. The activity should be supplemented with the Art expression means, sequentially changing the quality of the content of the activity and accumulating the experience of the self-expression. The artistic-musical activity remains not only crucial... [to full text]