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 Description: Objective Internation
learning (Music & Movement) al Learning
Centers Outcome:
(include
photo):

Me and my Music: The student

partners we Appreciation: students show their will learn the
took from enjoyment through imaginative directions
each class descriptions or movements and they will
two student Pitch: students sing together in the know the
and we same voice level. shark
cooperate Rhythm: student will move their families.
them together body at the same rhythm of the
we told them music.
their names to Notation: students write music or
know each make their own music
other. Conservation: students remember
We planned to the melody of a song
perform the Movement:
baby shark high-low
song. fast-slow
Each of us skip, stomp, march,
teach her Relationship: students are aware of
student the their partners as everyone
 movement of performs
the song and Interpretation: students use their
what the part imaginations to move (ex. imagine
that they will you are a tree, a camel, the wind)
do. (listen to the music and use your
After we took imagination to move to the music)
them all
together and
we did all the
movements
together.

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?
The art preforming is so important in kindergarten because it
develop their creativity and their imagination, in this way they
will improve their skills more and more.

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.
In my opinion that the school must have art because it let the
children excited to go to school to create everyday a new thing.
And show his parents what he do for the day.
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?
My opinion that if the school do not give a chance for the
children to use their creativity and their imagination at first the
child will not develop or learn from the school anything because
the child love to do things not just sit and listen, they love to
move sing a song and something that makes them move their
body.