Introduction 

Good day everyone I m Tsotetsi ML foundation phase student I currently work at school as grade R teacher and the mother of two children I reside in eastern free state and employed for six years at school as grade R teacher. I'm very humble, caring and loving person I enjoy working with children and it is a great experience for me as well. After matriculating l studied local government management at unisa and lately work in the construction industry as site manager and it was the great experience but very challenging as well. I also register as  BBB EE and work with NPO's  is where I start to work with social development and children then from there I realize that I can still study further as professional teacher 

I enjoy cooperative learning as well as teacher is a life long learner I'm looking forward to work with you this semester and hope that we share the excitement  experiences as well and achieve our goal together. 

STUDY UNIT 1 

According to my level of understanding Vygotsky zone of proxymal development mean two different things that develops the child holistically eg.firstly the present level of development this means that the child could potentially be capable of doing things without any help from others. Secondly is the scaffolding that means the child need guidence or assistance that child could potentially be capable of doing things with help from elders, it can be teacher or parent. 

 ERICKSON THEORY 

It is based on the fact that the personality of a child it is developed and predetermined through eight stages of psychosocial development from infant to adulthood. 

PIAGET Theory 

He is the one who rejected the idea of passive learning or given knowledge to the learner. He believes in the four different stages of child development. 

Vygotsky theory 

He believes that the child could think cognitively and this is affected by their knowledge of social development, social community, socio cultural theory, he also have understanding of the child language is the most powerful tool for gaining language development. 

Constructivist learning theory - this is the theory that help learners to construct their own understanding, knowledge of the world through experiencing things by themselves.,and even reflecting on those experiences in other words children explore the world on their own. 

Cognitive theory - this theory based on how information is received, organized, stored or even retrieved by the mind and it also help learners cognitively learn in high order thinking skills and understand the most difficult concepts. 

Behaviorist theory - this theory explains the way in which person can act in any situation or even based on the way the behavior can can be controlled or even modified, consequences of behavior and reinforcement. 

Music is important in foundation phase learners because is fun and learners can easily be inspired easily by integrating music activities during learning this will also help learners and support them or even motivate them  to develop holistically in a fun way. 

Physical development - In foundation phase learners need to be developed physically through conducive learning environments sing songs and rhymes activities doing movement up and down kinaesthetically using their bodies. 

Social development - In foundation phase learners again must be able to make friends and socialize during classroom activities in small groups they sing rhymes and use different or diverse rhymes and learn other languages as well. 

Cognitive development - learners in foundation phase think cognitively the rhyming words and the tone of the songs and rhymes or even think about the beginning sounds they develop the language concepts as well. 

Emotional development - during home language learning learners dramatise the story dance and learn through music in a fun way and gain confidence  and self eestem at the same time. 

HELLO BLOGERS

STUDY UNIT 4

I'm Tsotetsi grade R educator it is my first time, first-year using this blog  sessions but  to be honest it is very interesting to read and hear different views, learn from others. This session will also expand my knowledge as well. Since last year I been learning through LSKM module learning  new things it is great  and fun. 

ART INTEGRATION IN  FOUNDATION PHASE

To integrate art makes learning more meaningful and promote the learning, follows a whole approach to the problem solving. During learning activities art help learners to be able to relate learning to the real life situation. It even help learners to be able to transfer their knowledge and skills, from one area to another. It even engage and promote active learning because foundation phase learners enjoy fun activities with rhythm, kinaesthetically movement, art it helps them in problem solving, experiatial learning, collaborative learning and reflection,as educator when planning you must always integrade activities of two or more learning areas according to(Silverstein &Layne,2010)music and maths eg ,counting how many times to repeat the line of the song.

Integrating art can be applied to  make learning be more seamless in other learning areas, like language and also mathematics,engage learners in teaching and learning so that to encourage them to think,explore  or even draw on their prior knowledge,this activity will also help them to to discover the new concept or even skill and even demonstrate the learners understanding through art activity.  It help learners to learn In the  fun way but in a meaningful manner,learners learn and at the same time exchange or combine  the same  knowledge and skill to art by creating song or dance. 

WHY ART IS IMPORTANT IN FOUNDATION PHASE 

It important to integrate art in learning because it is fun, inspire and motivate some learners and also support academic achievements,the investigation has proved that most schools that encourage teacher to apply art integration strategies in their teaching and learning this make learners perform and have shown better improvement result  than ever.it also  help to increase socialization among learners as well. During music activity learners sing in small group of ten. It even support,meet and promote the developmental needs of learners, give them opportunity to learn in fun, curious, creative imaginative as well.

ART INTEGRATION AND CAPS

Caps document is the main guideline that helps educator what to teach learners, when to teach the activity and how long,which learning strategies to be used as well. Caps it even promotes the effectiveness of teaching and learning and make meaningful and fun as well. Give teachers multiple modes for demonstrating their understanding to help learners learn. Connect the visual art with reading comprehensive contextualize and bring experiencial learning. It allows learners to connect and apply  variety of skills and use different learning styles. Help to connect personal experience with subjects matter.Art sometimes it changes or improve the  lives of other learners that were not academicaly achieved well,but  being creative in music and dance and use it as proffessional career.we can even say art help to reach other learners who are not otherwise  being reached,it also help to combine or connect student to others at the same time.It provide the opportunities  for people or student in their live and improve the levels of their live as well. 

HOW CAN WE TRANSFORM EDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC AND ART

teaching and learning  about music,in a music,on music,with a music,from music,through music ,it developes  a theoretical framework according to(Van Vreden, 2019),Van Vreden (2014)

Art or music is part of curriculum and it helps to transform learning knowledge and skills, help learners  to explore the world around them and engage art or music in their real life experiences.help others to explore new challenge and expiriences at the same time to the real world of real work.it is fun and easy for educator to use the transition between learning area to art like music or song eg, we can use counting song during mathematics counting forward and backward through singing song.other activity singing songsin grade R  during  tidy up routine to make learners aware that its time for transition,or sometimes play soft music when learners working on one on one activity help them to relax.