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

Table 3: Music and Movement (Example)

Observed
learning
Centers
(include
photo):

Description:

Objective
(Music & Movement)

International Learning
Outcome:

Music:

o The teacher she identify

the names of music
instruments, she choose
each child to take
different instrument,
when teacher clap one
time the do it just a once.
( Maracas, triangle ,
tambourine)

Pitch: students sing at the same pitch

o After that, the children

they do it with song of if
you happy.

High- Fast

Rhythm: students replicate the rhythm of a

song using a tambourine or clapping
Notation: students will make their own music

Conservation: students remember the

melody of a song
Movement:

Skip , March.
Relationship: students are aware of their
partners as everyone performs.
Interpretation: students use their imaginations
to move (ex. imagine you are a tree, in the

o They
children
will
identify the
sounds of
different
instrument,
and how
they do it
to gather
step by
step.
o its help to
develop
they ability
in the
music to
make own
music.

garden) (listen to the music and use your

imagination to move to the music)

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?
Yes, because music make interest and fun for children to know the sounds and
identify the instruments music and how to use. That help to moving step by step ,
and to identify the different voices of the tools and forms. However, the movement
music are fun and help children be playful with each other and with their child care
providers., to learn make space of the distance between them in class.

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.

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?