Observation Task 3: Supporting Learning

through the Performing Arts: Music and

Movement

Student Name: Aisha Ali Alowais

Course Name: Theories of Teaching and Learning that impact the Preschool Curriculum
Course Code: EDU 2503
Instructor: Antoinette Wiseman
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 Description: Objective International Learning
Outcome:
(include photo): (Music & Movement)

The students Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch? - To listen attentively

performing the I v=A014gTIAeng - To be more aware
Love My Mommy of their bodies and
Dance that I taught Appreciation: students show their enjoyment through work on co-
them on Mothers dance and movements ordination
Day. - To use their singing
voice and matching
Pitch: students sing at the same pitch the pitch
- To use steady
Notation: students add their own individuality in movements
their dance to express them selves. following the beat
- To play along with
the group
Conservation: students remember the dance, melody, movements and
and words of a song. singing.

Movement:

high-low

fast-slow

point at your mother

Blow a kiss

turn right, turn left

Form a heart shape over your head by connecting

both hands over your head.

Relationship: students show their love for their

mothers by pointing at them during the I love my
mommy part and students are aware of their friends
and classmates that are performing with them.

Interpretation: students use their imaginations to

move and express themselves, such as a heart over
their head and the kiss to show how much they love
 their mothers.

Reflections on Observation Task 3: Supporting Learning through the

Performing Arts: Music and Movement

1. 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?

- Students who are engaged in creative arts have the freedom to explore, express themselves, and

learn to display their emotions in a less violent way. Rather than creative arts being a luxury its

easily accessible and can be used in every childs daily life, such as a child drawing on the sand

at the park, decorating their food on the plate before eating, and even coloring in school.

Creative arts should be encouraged in schools rather than being avoided. A child cannot develop

without exploring and cant speak up without the art of expression and creative arts helps them

build on that.