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 being 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: the first activity Numbers Names

Observed
Learning
Centers
(include
photo):

The pupils were

singing and
moving,
interacting and
moving their fine
motor skills.
Note: this is M
section.

Description
:

Objective
(Music & Movement)

During this
activity, the
children
were
learning the
spelling and
the names
of the
numbers
from one to
nine.
Through
visual video,
dancing,
moving and
show the
numbers in
their fingers.

Music:
Appreciation:
the pupils appreciate that
each number has its
name and it is written in a
certain and particular
way.
Pitch:
the pupils sing at the
same pitch of the song.
Rhythm:
the pupils follow the
rhythm of the song.
The pupils sing the song
the different lyrics of the
song in the same rhythm
and together.
Conservation:

International
Learning
Outcome:

The
pupils will
recognize
the
numbers
names
from one
to nine.
The
pupils will
spell the
numbers
names
from one
to nine.
The
pupils will
identify
the

the pupils used to the

melody of the song.
The pupils save the lyrics
the song and understand
it.
The song helped the
pupils to save the
numbers names and
distinguish among them
through using to its visual
shape.

Movement:
The pupils had the
opportunity to move or
represent numbers in
their ways but in their
places.
Relationship:
During this music and
movement song, there
was not an obvious
amount of moving and
using the gross motor
skills. The majority of the
percentage of the
movement were based on
using the fine motor skills,
which were the fingers to
represent the numbers.
But children were aware
of moving from their
places and covering the
video from other children
who are setting.
Interpretation:
The pupils interpreted and
understood the formal
written labels in the song
are the names of the
numbers.
The pupils understood

numbers
from the
illustrated
names.
The
pupils will
distinguis
h among
the
numbers
names.

and recognized each

number name.
The pupils understood
that each number has a
special name.
The pupils understood the
meaning of spelling the
numbers names.

Table 4: Music and Movement: the first activity Zoo Animals

Observed
Learning
Centers
(include
photo):

The pupils were

singing with my
English MST and
moving like
animals.
Note: this is the
S section.

Description:

Objective
(Music & Movement)

During this
activity, the
children were
learning about
the zoo
animals and
their abilities
through
singing,
dancing,
acting and
moving like
these animals.

Music:
Appreciation:
the pupils appreciate what
each animal can do, the
various animals
movements in acting it,
and the topic of the song.
Pitch:
the pupils sing at the same
pitch and in the same
sound volume.
Rhythm:
the pupils follow the
rhythm of the song.
The pupils sing the song
the different lyrics of the
song in the same rhythm
and together.
Conservation:
the pupils used to the
melody of the song.
The pupils save the lyrics
the song and understand it.

International
Learning
Outcome:

The pupils
will
recognize
and review
the zoo
animals.
The pupils
will
recognize
each animal
ability.
The pupils
will
perform,
sing and act
like the zoo
animals.

Movement:
The pupils were moving
freely in their ways but in
their places.
The pupils were acting like
the zoo animals. For
instance, jumping like the
kangaroo.
Relationship:
the pupils were aware of
each special animal
movement.
The pupils were aware of
their peers while moving
and dancing.
Interpretation:
The pupils imagine the
animals and how they are
moving.
The pupils imagine
themselves are the
animals.
The pupils also imagine the
opposite or the unable
abilities that animals
cannot do.

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?

In my point view, I think the creative art and the performing art is
important because it engages the children in the learning, enhance
and simplify the learning topics. It also helps children to understand
better than the average, typical learning lesson by including playing,
which facilitates the learning process in their minds as Lev Vygotsky
believed and many other educational philosophers. (McLeod, 2014).
2. Creative thinking and reasoning have been identified and
highlighted as an essential twenty-first-century skill by many
businesses, 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, it is an essential skill and the reason it carries and plays important
role in developing the child, especially developing the personal field of
the child. Creative thinking and reasoning help the child to express his
thoughts, his abilities and build creativity in him, which eager,
motivated to do more and to be a successful learner who wants to
participate in each field and become the first in everything. It also
helps the child to build the correct and the solid self-esteem also
become a positive and useful for the society in the future.
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?

It is not a luxury thing; arts include playing having fun, moving instead
to being passive in learning. This helps the child to learn and in fact,
humans are active and curious learners in every field and every stage
of their lives. Active learning digs a and stick in your mind more than
just saving, reading and listening,

References:
McLeod, S. (2014). Lev Vygotsky. Retrieved from Simply Psychology:
http://www.simplypsychology.org/vygotsky.html