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Inspiration of on country visit to create learning experiences for children

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Inspiration of on country visit to create learning experiences for children

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Through my on country visit to a local farm area I was connected with my own childhood experiences as I grew up in country New South Wales on a farm.

I enjoyed connecting my senses to the natural experience I was able to delve into on my on country visit.

In particular the role the weather played and the natural movements with the space.

As explored in Sound/music experince.

Connecting with the natural environment as explored in the movement experience.

The drama farm animal experience and introudicing elements of what happens on a farm through a familarised story old mcdonald had a farm and benny book- On a farm and who's family.

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The sound/music learning experience I facilated for the children with my Three year old kindergarten class was dancing with coloured Scarfs to the following song:

Jiggle your scarf.

This song enabled children to listen to the words of the song through their senses of hearing and engage with the beat of the song to then create the movements with the coloured scarfs.

In particular the movement of the trees and leaves within the environment as this is what I experienced and connected with on my country visit.

This learning experience was facilated within the outdoor environment on a windy and cloudy day similar to the weather of my on country visit.

The reasoning for this was for children to explore the outdoor environment and connect with the nature whilst engaging in meaningful learning.

Whilst I engaged the children in the learning experience I explained to the children and drew their attention to the outdoor surroundings which where visible such the trees and asked the children if they could move their scarfs in an similar way.

Reflection-

The learning experience I engaged the children with children went well as the children enjoyed engaging in music and movement. The children liked that they could hold the scarfs and create movements with the wind.

In the future I would like to find more nature related songs and natural resources to add to the movement and music experiences.

As the children hadn't engaged in a similar experience outdoor prior to this I found that the where more engaged and settled then the indoor environment.

In the future I will be doing more group time learning experiences within the outdoor environment.

Planning this learning experience:

Resouces required-

Coloured scarfs as I have pictured above.

Outdoor learning environment- windy/cloudy day.

Song- Jiggle your scarf song ( Kindy Rock)

Encourage the children to sing some words once familar with the song.

Children to stand whilst immersed in the experience.

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Composed Music.

Natural sounds.

Singing

Movement

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The movement learning experience I faciliated for the children was a nature walk to engage the children's senses.

Within the kindergarten environment I work within their is a large outdoor space which has lots of large trees, bamboo trees and grass. Lots of natural elements.

Similar to what I experienced on my on country visit.

Planning the experience:

Whilst on the nature walk around the kindergarten environment I sang a song to the children of 'Let's see what we can notice'- dance like bird, wishy washy dance like the tree, crunchy wet grass.

I encouraged the children to freeze observe their sourroundings and create the movements.

This learning experience enabled children to engage and understand the world around them, be respectful young citizens, connect with nature and do it in a fun filled way through a teacher led song experience which also involves the children by their own creative movement as well their movements through space.

Reflection:

The children did enjoy the learning experience however as it was a new song it took the children some time to familarise with the learning experience.

In the future I would like to explain to the children the purpose of the learning experience more clearly so that they are able to connect and have increased engagement.

I did engage the children twice and the second time I found the children where more engaged!

To extend this experience children could engage in sensory story telling movement experiences like 'lets go a bear hunt'.

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Natural Environment.

Song.

Movement.

Senses.

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Farm Drama story telling.

Tone of Voice.

Children's involvement.

Resources.

Interactive.

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I have been inspired by the overall unit content as it has enabled me to draw on connection between my assesment task 2 on country visit and creative response to create meaningful learning experience for children. This is highlighted in below understanding of therortical underpinnings.

As explored in Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (n.d.). Learning in Music. Australian Curriculum.

Music enables children to develop and be exposed to many learning elements.

Within my sound/muisc experience and movement/dance experience I have included many of these learning elements such as active listening, imitating, singing, presening and performing.

Therefore this highlights that the learning experiences I have facilated add value to children's learning.

I have engaged the children in the sound/msyic experiences and movement/dance experiences with the natural environment I was inspired to do this through my connection with on country visit and then bein able to connect with my own childhood.

Addirri, inner deep listening & Quiet still awareness- Mirriam Rose Ungunmerr also explores how important it to connect with natural elements as they help us to feel, think and believe and connect with past and present.

Through facilating thr learning experiences within the outdoor environment I have ensured that I have fostered this in the children learning.

As explored in the Nature Play- Ruth Wilson.

It is important for children to have opportunties to interact with the natural environment regularly.

I have ensured that the learning experiences I have facilated ensure this. Which has enabled contribution to children's overall learning. It has also enabled a direct link with my on country visit and creative response of assessment task 2 which was a magical experience into the country side.

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The drama experience which I facilated for the children was me enacting Old mcdonald had a farm.

With pretend animals and puppets.

I also used 'on the farm book and who's family to make the learning experience more interesting and creative.

This was a magical experience into what the country side can look like- a direct link to my on country visit and the connections I felt with my childhood.

I used many tones of voices to engage the children in a dramatic experience.

The children where also Involved through being encouraged to hold the puppets and enact the sounds and animal names.

As pictured below I had set up the story telling experience as an learning experience to enable children to reconnect with the experiences with indepenent learning as well.

Reflection

The drama story telling experience went really went.

The children enjoyed listening to me enacting the old mcodnald had a farm book through the resources and also enjoyed being introduced to concepts of what else happens on a farm through the other stories which was a wonderful extension of learning in the moment.

I would like to include more natural materials and do the enacting of the story through the lense of sensory story telling in the future.

I would also like to incopoarte more resouces like the puppets for children as there was soe sharing and negoitating encounters.

The children have enjoyed enaging in their own dramatic story telling experinces with the experince being set up in the room for them.

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Through the learning experience I have facilated I have included indigenous perspectives through connecting and engaging the children within natural environments and choosing to facilate two of my learning experiences within the outdoor learning environment.

In my kindergarten service we are blessed to have a outdoor yarning cirlce area as pictured above- The children where gathered within this space prior to engaging in the activties as a yarning circle to explain the learning experiences.

In the future I would like do my drama experience within this space to enable connecting through the means of a yarning circle whilst doing sensory story telling.

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1. Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (n.d.). Learning in Music. Australian Curriculum. Retrieved February 5, 2023, from https://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/f-10-curriculum/the-arts/music/structure/

2. Addirri, inner deep listening & Quiet still awareness- Mirriam Rose Ungunmerr

3. Wilson, R. A. (2018). Nature and young children : encouraging creative play and learning in natural environments. Routledge.