Principles to keep in mind when planning a music lesson or non music lesson with music activities.

*First thing you should gather as many ideas and opportunities as possible to help learners to engage with an actively listen, make sure you grab all the attention of the learners

*Use the CAPS document to help and guide you with planning lesson

*Use music in the beginning of the class and at the end of the class,only play music that is relevant to the lesson, guide them on what they should listen to and what to do while listening.

This topic is very interesting as children love and enjoy to play. Playing music makes education easy and enjoyable, it is important to play with learners in class and always know that every class has different African cultures.

Traditional play is when children play indigenous games which has rules that need to be followed and are seldom broken.this kind of play is fixed.

Open play is a play that also recuire rules but they can be changed according to children's needs while playing, they can play households games and pretend to be someone or doing something. This kind of play is an improvisation.

Original play is creative  and based on curiosity, mostly am individual game  where one amuses themselves with objects, actions and sounds.

The kind of games above is worth exploring in the classroom as they create the idea of equality amongst spontaneous creativity and established rules.

Play assist learners to communicate, unite ,get to know each other better, learn from one another and enjoy playtime.

Su1 : music and holistic development is a long topic which requires more attention,time and focus because you have to understand each stage very well so that you do not confuse them and the theorists. Erikson's theory draws attention on the encouragement of social interactions and relationship on studying. As a teacher you have to have or build a good relationship with your learners so that they can be free and have opportunities to enjoy learning. Create a safe, healthy, supported environment for learners to enjoy learning. Learners then learn to interact with others, learn to share with their peers.

Piaget's theory is about cognitive development which emphasizes on notion that children learn by interacting with the globe and enable them to build new understanding from existing abilities and knowledge, but we also have to know that children think differently than adults. At the stage of pre-operational learners are still young,they do not understand that they should share and consider others view point, they start to use images and words to present objects. Concrete operational stage now grow a bit, they start to be able to solve problems, they then should interact with others to learn about some real life problems that enable them to think about certain situations and try solve them and learn to think for others feelings and their needs, they become less selfish.