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
(include photo): (Music & Movement) Outcome:

Music:

In the circle area: The students Appreciation: students show their Wheels are round
learn from the enjoyment through or movements (there are many
wheels that are things that have
round, and for Pitch: students sing at the same wheels, one of
example, we pitch these things is a
found the bus, and what
wheels on the Conservation: students remember happened in the
bus. Moreover, the melody of a song bus)
Movement:
we know the
events and the Round (wheels are round)
things that Sweesh (the in front rubber on the
happened in bus)
the bus. Cha cha (people talk in the bus)
Peep
Waa waa waa (baby cry)
Hsh sh sh sh (mother calms the
baby)

Relationship: students are aware of

their partners as everyone performs

Interpretation: students use their

imaginations to move (ex. imagine
you are a baby, a mother, the wheels)
(listen to the music and use your
imagination to move to the music)

Observed learning Centers Description: Objective International Learning

 (include photo): (Music & Movement) Outcome:

Music:

In the circle time (they The students Appreciation: students show Learn about the
did the music again in learn from their enjoyment through or body part
the PE period, in the this music movements
playground): about the
Head shoulders Knees body part. Pitch: students sing at the same
and Toes pitch

Conservation: students
remember the melody of a song
Movement:

Head
Shoulders
Knees
Toes
Eyes
Ears
Mouth
nose

Relationship: students are aware

of their partners as everyone
performs

Interpretation: students learn

about the body part.
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?

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?

In my opinion, the benefits for children who are engaged in creative arts in
school that makes the children more creative because they use their
imagination and their cognitive development, It helps them to see the world
in many ways or in another way, and it makes creative generation.