Observation Task 3: Supporting Learning through the Performing Arts: Music

and Movement

Focus: Understand the importance of using performing arts in the classroom to

link with academic subjects

Objective: To encourage student teachers to identify different ways that performing

arts can be used in academic subjects

Procedure: Identify two music and movement activities students performed in the
classroom and complete the table

Observed learning Centers Description: Objective In

(include photo): (Music & Movement)

Music:
- In the school gym or the - Children Appreciation:
classrooms carpet. practice dancing
for the mothers Children show how happy they are to show
day on the their mothers the dance by moving and
classrooms dancing just as they practiced.
carpet or in the
school gym. Pitch: students sing at the same pitch.

Conservation: students remember the lyrics

and movements of the music.

Movement:
Relationship: students are aware of their
partners as everyone performs

Interpretation: Children use their

imagination to perform actions, for
example, when the song says sunshine
children model acting as they are sunshine
by spreading their hands.
Reflections on Observation Task 3: Supporting Learning through the
Performing Arts: Music and Movement

Read the questions below and choose one to answer

1. The creative arts teach children that problems can have more than
one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.
One of the large lessons kids can learn from practicing creative arts
is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world. In your
opinion, why is this important and what impact does this have on
education?
- Children can learn different things about the world through creative arts. It is
important to perform movements and dance in the class because it helps to improve
physical, cognitive, social and emotional areas in the child. They can also have a self
esteem by doing the actions in the way they like.

2. Creative thinking and reasoning have been identified and

highlighted as an essential twenty-first-century skill by many
business, education, community and government leaders. In your
opinion, do you think that this is an important skill for children to
learn? Why or why not.
- Yes, to extend their imagination by giving them chance to think and to allow them
know how to solve problems by themselves.

3. Some people view creative arts education as a luxury and do not

help with the building blocks of child development. In your
opinion, what are the benefits for children who are engaged in
creative arts in school?
- They can express their feelings and thought, and they can develop social,
emotional, cognitive skills.