The importance of Arts Integration in the foundation phase is that it embraces each learner's unique skills and capabilities. It makes it easy for the learners to engage and it offers many ways to construct and show understanding. Art integration in the foundation phase also help children to develop motor skills ,decision making skills, social skills,language skills, inventiveness and risk taking skills. Arts integration can lead to transformative experiences for both teachers and learners while fostering creative and imaginative capacities of the teachers and the learners alike.

WHAT DID I FIND INTERESTING?

The values of Arts integration because they prove to contribute towards higher motivation levels among learners and supports academic achievement and socialisation among learners. Arts integration provides teachers with the opportunity to promote and support the developmental needs of learners while offering learners the opportunity to engage in teaching and learning activities which are fun, fosters collaboration and connection and promotes learners’ innate curiosity, creativity and imaginative abilities. When foundation phase teachers utilise the arts throughout their teaching, they provide learners with multiple modes for demonstrating their understanding of non-arts outcomes while accommodating various learning styles and needs.

WHAT DID I FIND CHALLENGING?

The challenging part about Art Integration is that it needs a well-trained teacher, because some learners will find it difficult to master some concepts so as a teacher you have to be patient. You have to bear in mind that learners are not the same and try to accommodate all of them.