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I chose one book and one song to plan and deliver the concept of drama through storytelling and role play.

The very popular book "We're going on a bear hunt" and all time favourite song "Five little ducks".

Whilst on my country visit, I personally observed dramas presented in a nature which I interpreted through my imagination and the way I looked at the nature.

I planned above mentioned activities for children where they get opportunity to develop the understanding of delivering a story in different way by performing and role playing with props.

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My experiences based on Movement and dance

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My experiences based on Movement and dance

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I have added these two videos from my experiences with the children. Children enjoyed, did lots of movement and danced without music or any song. I have a connection between both videos which I have attached.

The first one was observing strong wind sound while in a bush which was moving bushes slow and fast. and the dance children did was by using props like: paper strips, leaves and different fabrics.

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I added few experiences, when I began with the sound and music. Children were curious and excited to do and take part to explore different activities with me.

we created rain drops with the tapping sticks on a big tree bark which was in a curved shape.

we also Used water in a tub along with some open ended materials such as containers, blocks, spoons, lids, plastic strainers etc to experience different water dropping sound.

we had experienced deep sound and quietness in the bush area at my centre. We explore a sound of deep bush, heavy wind blowing bushes.

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Sound of pouring water into different containers

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Sound of pouring water into different containers

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I have documented and implemented all three experiences successfully in my teaching practice.

From my assessment 2, My visit to the park where I captured sound of wind, trees, water, cars, ducks and people around me, movement of trees, grass, flowing water in a pond, birds etc and drama was based on my imagination and my perception with the overall environment.

Sound/music

Movement/dance

Drama

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Storytelling from a book "We're going on a bear hunt". Drama 

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Storytelling from a book "We're going on a bear hunt". Drama 

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The reason I added these experiences, was to familiar children with different sound and music present around us. It is not just a music which we play but when we look around we can hear music and sound in nature, in materials, amongst people around us. There are almost everything around us makes sound and music. Some sounds are loud and easy to hear or listen but some sounds are deep and can be more audible when it is quietness around us. During my country visit, I had some moments where I experienced deep nature sound, Sound of water flowing in a pond, Sound of ducks quacking and sound of tress moving by the heavy wind. I added to my program to get children to experience sound and music in a different way.

As children love to hear music, songs and different sounds, I decided to explore sound in a unique way by using space and materials around us. Music and sound is something which connects children with their surrounding, with their inner and neurons that is why it is important in child's life from the time of birth, early as possible.

We all have sound within ourselves too. I experienced the sound of deepness by taking children during a quiet time, to the bush area in my centre. Children sat on the logs along with me and we spent few minutes to listen and feel the quietness presented in a bush.

In an article, Natural Sensory Learning by Diann Gano, Sharron Krull, it is mentioned that when children listen and hear a sound in a nature, It helps them to understand the space in three dimensions. The sound force, slow down children and make them concentre from where a sound is coming.

In a video by the music expert Dr. Ibrahim Baltagi, he mentioned how several mechanisms through which music impacts child's ability to link with brain circuits which involves with empathy, trust and cooperation in his or her surrounding.

I also would like to embedded my findings and experiences with the

Indigenous and Aboriginal culture of deep sound and connection with the Land, tradition, People and nature through sound and music by using natural materials to make musical instruments and producing music.

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Diann Gano, Sharron Krull,  July 2020, Natural sensory learning

Dr. Ibrahim Baltagi, "How music affects your baby’s brain: Mini Parenting Master Class", UNICEF for every child parenting. https://www.unicef.org/parenting/child-development/how-music-affects-your-babys-brain-class#:~:text=Music%20at%20early%20ages%20helps,these%20words%20and%20memorize%20them.

Wilson Ruth, and Ruth Wilson, Nature and Young Children : Encouraging Creative Play and Learning in Natural Environments, Routledge, 2007, page 8.

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The reason I added two videos was actually I planned to made connection with the experience of movement in nature. Firstly children witnessed and felt the movement in the bush which was causing by wind and we attempted to do tree dance later on.

As in my assessment 2, During my country visit, I experienced heavy winds were causing tress and grass to move slow and fast. I added as my activity where children created their own tress by using fabrics, paper strips and real leaves fallen of the tree and moved and danced on the words which I used like: Slow an faster, light and heavy etc.

Children came up with lots of curiosity and reasoning by asking questions like: "What are we making"? "Why are we making"? etc.

I showed them a video of my country visit and asked if they would like to come with me in a yard to see how the wind is moving trees. This made us went outside and had some quiet time by sitting in a bush to feel, hear and see the movement of trees in a bush area. After making a sense and connection, children enjoyed dancing like a tree and understood the movement caused by the wind.

In a book "Nature and Young Children", it says that how natural world impacts on child's sensory experiences and open ended materials for motoric manipulations. playing in natural outdoor space gives opportunities to children for nurturing growth in all the developments domains like adaptive, aesthetic, cognitive, communication, sensorimotor and sociometer(Wilson 1995, pg 8)

I would like to embedded my findings and understandings with Aboriginal and Indigenous with movement in contemporary dance forms they use for example: one video from our unit contend "Mutton Bird" dance form, which clearly explains emotions, dance and drama through whole body movement.

Aboriginal people always represent nature, their strong belief and connection with their Land in their dance forms.

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My aim to plan these experiences in form of role play and storytelling through props was to engage children by involving, learning, participating, developing language & social skills, imaging and enjoying in forms of drama.

For a book "We're going on a bear hunt", I used water for river, mud, fake grass mat, leaves for forest, a box to made a cave and bear inside a cave, toys people and a book itself which I read to make it more interesting. As children have heard this story several times, they participated by singing with me and using sound with their mouth. We role played and created a sound of a river, mud, grass, forest, we used the motion of going slowly and running fast. I inspired by a book and added because it had a sound of some natural materials and space around us and added in my drama to create a role play by using props.

For a song "Five little ducks", I got inspired by the ducks I had seen during my country visit. As children like to sing this song as a group, I planned to provide them with some stick puppets and set up a hill to create a song. It worked and children participated and enjoyed.

If I connect my activities, I can embedded through indigenous and Aboriginal culture and the way they do storytelling through signs and natural materials to connect wit the nature and Land.

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Three different experiences which I did with children in my room went great. Children experienced different forms of learnings in three different ways. I personally like to deliver and execute my plan based on my country visit and was able to made connection with assessment 3.

I, also felt that children are still curious and interested to do more activities related to dance, sound and drama, so as an Early childhood educator, I would like to extend further in my next fortnight plan and will add 5 senses topic for children for more opportunity to use their senses through activities.

As children always likes to listen to the music and love to create sound, it was fun and great experience for us to go in the bush to listen to the deep sound and quietness of the bush. With movement/dance, children got opportunity to change the sound experience into movement, where they became a tree and move like a tree by using resources in their hands. With the last experience of drama, we used resources to create a storytelling and role play. I chose their favourite storybook and favourite song to make it more interesting.

Particularly, children enjoyed and participated in the role play based on a book "We're going on a bear hunt". I would like to further plan an activity where children will walk on barefoot on grass, water, mud to feel different texture and surface of each of these natural materials.

I believe that Children need the environment and opportunity to learn and grow through their own experience.