Lskm 221 taught me a lot about music, art and lessons in one content. It wasn’t easy knowing all the information but at the same time it was refreshing to learn new things.

Firstly i learned about holistic development. Holistic development essentially means the development of intellectual, mental, physical, emotional, and social abilities in a child so that he or she is capable of facing the demands and challenges of everyday life. These abilities are vitally important for success in professional fields of work.

• I Holistic education instills curiosity and develop better communication and social skills.
• Holistic approach encourage children to make connection in a subject, using their creative skills.
• Develop psychological, social, and emotional growth.
• Make learning natural and engaging.
• Motivates children to learn and know more.
• Make learning a fun and meaningful experience.

Then i also learned about listening to and responding to music

So, as has been shown through multiple studies throughout the years, music is about more than just playing an instrument. It's a means through which you can express the depths of your spirit and soul. It teaches you valuable life lessons — about persistence, endurance, perseverance, confidence, and so much more.

You can learn many things from music. You can learn empathy from instrumental tunes. You can learn how other people think and how they deal with situations that might be helpful for you. You can put yourself into different mindsets to accommodate the tasks at hand. One of the best things that music has to offer is companionship.

Then also the play music in foundation phase

Musical training helps develop language and reasoning: Students who have early musical training will develop the areas of the brain related to language and reasoning. ... Students learn to improve their work: Learning music promotes craftsmanship, and students learn to want to create good work instead of mediocre work. Music education requires students to recognize and repeat pitch, tone or enunciation of words. Especially in young children, music directly benefits the ability to learn words, speak them correctly, and process the many new sounds they hear from others. Music education involves a high level of memorization.

Arts Integration 

Art integrated classrooms can provide learning experiences that engage the learner's mind, heart and body. Here arts enable children to use multiple skills and abilities. ... The benefit of such experiential learning creates the basis for better learning in other subjects. When you’re working in an arts integration lesson, you’ll feel like the line between the content and the arts is blurred.  That’s a good thing!  In arts integration, the arts are an avenue through which students apply and connect the previously taught content.  The arts are not servicing the content.  Instead, both the content area and the arts area are interconnected.

Lesson planning

Lesson planning is the activity which the teacher performs before the actual lesson takes place. A lesson plan is a detailed description of the instructional strategies and learning activities to be performed during the teaching/learning process.An order to understand what a lesson plan is, it is important to fully understand the concept of a lesson. A lesson is a single activity or a series of activities designed by the teacher so as to achieve one or more instructional objectives determined, or desired in promoting positive change in the learner. A lesson is thus a period of instruction or contact between the teacher and the learners which is totally devoted to a prior identified, specified and single limited title, skill, content or idea.

As this journey was not easy but at the end we have to make it easy as it helps us to know a lot about us and the content of teaching. I would also like to thank Mr Lerumo for being patient with us and teach us a lot about the upcoming and challenging life experience