L SWANEPOEL
Hello everyone!
My name is Larise Swanepoel and I am from Virginia in the Freestate. I am a Student/Educator Assistant at Riebeeckstad Primary School. I am always open to learn new things since we are never to old to learn!
My passion for teaching came from my mother who is also a teacher in the Intermediate Phase. My first career choice wasn't teaching... but I don't regret studying B. Ed. I love children and I enjoy working with them and helping them where I can. I want to inspire them and motivate them to follow their dreams. They are our future after all. ✨
I am very excited about LSKM 221 since it is about music in the Foundation Phase. I love music and our grade 1 class enjoys singing and dancing to music. Before they go home, we would put on a music video for them to dance to. Unfortunately for me "Apples and Bananas" will be stuck in my head the whole afternoon... but I enjoy seeing them happy and excited.
Good luck to everyone this semester.
Study Unit 4
11 Oct 2021, 20:34
The importance of arts integration
1. I think that arts integration is very important in the foundation phase because it helps the learners develop creative problem-solving skills. It also helps learners with motor skills, language skills, social skills, decision-making, risk-taking and inventiveness. Learners also learn the basic visual arts – color, layout, perspective and balance. All these techniques are important, also for their academic work. Learners participate in activities which they would normally not interact with. Through this they learn to take their time and be careful and thorough. Learners also learn more about their culture and others that is very important in world.
Arts integration goes beyond including art projects in class. It is a strategy for teachers to use in their classroom to make lessons fun.
For example: (Only 2 examples)
Science – You might see students choreographing a dance using locomotors and non-locomotors movements to demonstrate their understanding of rotation versus revolution of the planets.
Math – You might see students learning fractions by examining composition in Warhol’s Campbell’s soup paintings.
Lastly, if we agree that the arts can provide all kinds of benefits for kids, from intellectual to creative to social-emotional, then shouldn't all kids have the opportunity to learn about and experience them?
But far too few schools have either the funding or support to make this a priority. What many arts-integrated schools across the country are showing is that by creating a richer, more memorable learning experience through the arts, they unleash not only a rising tide of academic achievement but they lay the foundation for what it means to be a truly creative community.
2. For me I found it interesting that art can be incorporated in ALL the learning areas of a child’s development. This also shows the importance of music and arts are to develop future entrepreneurs. I did not find anything challenging because it helped me understand the concept of music and arts in the classroom in the foundation phase and also how to use different ideas when I become a teacher one day.