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How has your perspective of music, movement and drama changed as a result of engaging with the unit content and required tasks?

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How might you use this growth in your future practice of early childhood education?

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Due to the stress and feeling overwhelmed with assessment task 2 I felt a lot of the learning was taken away from focusing on it, but I absolutely loved Victor Zupanc video on the Foley art as it made me smile and learn so much about how sound effects can change a direction of a story. I loved learning different ways of making sound effects. I also enjoyed the love and passion he had for his craft.

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The monkey Illusion YouTube video spoke inspired me a little as I am always caught up in technology or focusing on the task in front of me and being asked to do, it takes me away from missing those little things I forget to see or get to see if I really pay attention and as educators it's so important not to be drawn into the expected tasks ahead and take the moments to notice everything and  the small things in front of us.
I also really enjoyed The Imaginary friend's article, as it helped with strategies and understanding children with imaginary friends the benefits of this as well.

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I really connected to "The Atelier" video and how learning wasn't restricted by time or space and that it's direct course of learning is through children's own projects not from us as educators making the meaningful experiences for the children. Made me reflect on our Montessori Method practice. Are we allowing children those opportunities yes, we allow children to know mistakes happen but there is only a right way of doing things but in doing that are we allowing the children the freedom to explore? To come up with their own projects and taking on challengers to make new discoveries with us the educators making meaningful experiences.

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Alara wala is life was absolutely breath taking, I loved how she was so connected to her culture and place, that she was at one with her heritage using sticks, animals, birds, strum of a guitar, her voice birds and drawing you in as she paused with deep breathing. This made me feel connected to nature and hear music in an aboriginal perspective of land, place, nature and deep listening.
I also enjoyed the seeds activity where Jodie reenacted the seed becoming a tree, I felt was a great teaching tool for children and even us as educators and future ECT that it doesn't have to be researched or discussion you can teach children through movement, music and drama. This helped me with coming up with my experience for the children.
CHILDREN, CREATIVE PLAY AND THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT was an amazing read as it opened my eyes to how my own phobias could be affected my children on really experiencing the benefits of nature and I defiantly do not want to be the teacher or mother that has their children being a part of the 95 percent of children spending time indoors mainly as I learnt in the article so many benefits of nature play.

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This session really made me reflect on my practice I have always been told I am too loud or can't sing so I shy away from this and hide behind a speaker I always preferred to have the music on the speaker, and I sing in the background doing the actions and singing along because I don't believe I have a good voice and been told.
I found the "With one Voice" Group was wonderful and a great way to bring people together from diversity, disabilities and culture. They sounded so beautifully and really shows that music can bring everyone together. I also love the quote in my photo above.

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Personally, I did struggle with understanding drama and how this session connected to drama in my practice and how I could bring this into my practice being a Montessori method run center. Although I struggled to understand I enjoyed knowing and learning about Parallaxis which is an exploration of resonance and possibility within the landscape of the everyday. It is an experiment in calibrating our senses to more subtle frequencies; a quest for cracks and shadows that transform the known into the unknown. Ultimately it is a conversation with the places that we are continuously creating — and that are continuously creating us.
I actually went into my practice the next day exploring these possibilities with the children.

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As someone who isn't musically gifted or did dancing throughout my life, I did struggle a lot with the story telling in the dances that were in this session but one of the videos that really connected with me was "Listen" It really made me reflect on how I get so caught up in my day-to-day life and colonial world, that I do not take minute to listen to nature and be in silence but also "Reduce the number of sounds in my life" as sometimes "we are living in a world of sound over kill and it is becoming a real problem." I also found in the video that sounds will never be heard the same over and over again but also people hear sounds differently. (New, D 2009)

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I took a lot away from this first session. I really connected to Music as a language.
Victor Wooten - Ted talk (Wooten, V 2013) as it really made me reflect on my practice as in my practice music is used in routine to break up the day but also, I always felt it was a way for the children to learn speech, language, different cultures and a different form of communicating. By me using music as a form of routine I am reflecting am I taking the children's musical freedom as a way of expressing themselves.
The Dadirri Video and Article really gave me a more understanding of aboriginal culture and how important it is and how listening is so important, I love the quote "If our culture is alive, strong and respected it will grow." (Ungunmerr M.R, 2017)

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This is my 3-music movement and drama experiences I did with my 3–4-year-old kinder children.