Good day

I hope everyone is doing good and everyone is keeping safe and healthy. This was a good week. I am always excited to start a new study unit and look forward to seeing what I will be learning about this time. Things are quite at school and it’s just going great at the moment in my personal life.

My current confidence in my knowledge to integrate music in the foundation phase to teach music through movement is not completely zero or hopeless. I work as an assistant teacher at a school and always have ample opportunities to learn from great teachers and have seen them integrating music through movement in their lessons. However my knowledge stops there and I only know of a few examples. I am nt stressed about this as I know that after completing this module or even this unit I would have built at least some more valuable skills and gain greater knowledge of how to incorporate these important aspects and to use this in my teaching days to come.

I would choose Physical movement. I do believe that music education is also important and that an equal balance should be found to develop the child holistically. However I feel that learners need physical movement in order to take brain breaks during lessons as well as to keep the lessons interesting and keeping children’s attention. In my own experience as class assistant, I have found that learners appreciate a brain break during or after lessons in the form of physical movement inside or outside of the classroom. Children can only focus for 20 minutes at a time and then needs a brain break.  In order to holistically develop a child they need to be exposed to a healthy learning environment and physical movement creates just that.

I hope you have a wonderful week!