1.One of the first things to keep in mind when planning a music lesson is that you should include as many opportunities as possible for learners to engage with and actively listen to, move to and create/perform music throughout the lesson. The CAPS for Creative Arts, performing arts in the foundation phase defines the following topics.

• Creative games and skills
• Improvisation and interpretation
• The CAPS document further clearly indicates that the chosen performing arts topic (as defined within Creative Arts), must correlate with and support the Life Skills topic of the term and week. With this in mind, and by studying the performing arts topics, it becomes clear that foundation phase teachers are encouraged to include elements of play, to encourage creativity, discovery and collaboration and to apply arts integration strategies as often as possible in their teaching. 

2.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.

3. Yes, I have learnt a lot because now I can draft a detailed lesson plan without struggling.