Hi Guys, I'm Bilal Sabjee and living in Sunny Durban. I love being around children hence Foundation Phase teaching has the exciting and rewarding task of teaching little one's how to read and write. My passion is to strive to be an outstanding teacher that will impact many lives and to seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave. I'm ready to kick into action with this module and hopefully pass it with an "A". I'm excited to learn about music as it's something fairly new to me.
1. I firmly believe that art integration in foundation phase develops a child holistically, physically, intellectually, emotionally and socially. Especially in foundation phase art enriches a child's learning experience because it provides multiple pathways for children to learn. It develops fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination. it captivates learners and their attention span, therefore this decreases disciplinary problems in class. The art integrated program provides children with opportunities to experiment with materials, but express what they are learning by using visual and spatial symbols. This also allows for children to express their ideas and emotion when learning arts.
2. a) I found learning about music integration and it's concepts to be very enriching. As music plays a vital role to enhance learners musical knowledge and also learnt music can be expressed in six different ways. After reading over study unit 4 I have learnt that children develop their motor skills, language skills, social skills and inventiveness through the art of music.
b) What i found challenging is that integrating music with other subjects may confuse learners with music and maths hence learners won't be able to identify division and multiplication related to note values.