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Examples of group singing and movement activities in the classroom

1."The Telephone Rings" game

2."Ring Around the Rosie" game

3."Shoo Fly" game

4."Pumpkin Patch" game

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Incorporate movement into your music lessons with these fun singing games for "The Telephone Rings", "Ring Around the Rosie", "Shoo Fly", and "Pumpkin Patch".

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Advantages and disadvantages of using puppets

-The advantages are :

1.To make students interest with the lesson.

2.The students more understood about learning.

3.Make students enjoy the learning.

4.Make students not boring.

-The disadvantages are :

1.No economize.

2.Need complete concept.

3.The process of making is very complicated.Time-consuming to make it.

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Education is a primary need in the human life. Education is an investment for long time. Education can give human knowledge and insight. Getting education help us to develop our skill and intelligence. The education can give very good effect for human for along life to make a better life. One way to getting education is to enter a school.

In the school we can get and learn much information which has divided into the kinds of study or lesson. As a teacher and as a student, to give the lesson and to get the lesson, we need a media to help us to give and get the lesson easily.

Media is everything's which used by the teacher to distribute information to the students in teaching and learning process.

Media make the learning and teaching process more easily than without using the media at all. More over, the using of media is very effective and efficient.

With using a media can give a motivate the students and make them interested in learning process, in addition if the media made look very attracted and different than usual. And also, Students can understand and remember the lesson about something like a word when they have touched the object it represents.

Ten types of media, one of them are three dimensional aids. Three dimensional aids usually perform for the youngest students, because three dimensional aids is a real object as the media that usually interesting for children. The real object can be a doll, sock, and etc.

The develop of media learning had begun by Komensky, in his book with the title "Orbis Sensualium Pictus" (Dunia dalam gambar) that published at 1657. And then, first revolution had begun when the parents give their children's education to other people whose have a profession as a teacher. Second evolution started since the written use in teaching and learning process. Third evolution happen when the print media had came. Fourth evolution when the media electronic and communication take place largely.

Until now media has a big rule in education, many kinds of media well known nowadays.

The aim of the puppet as the three dimensional aids:

Three Dimensional is all thing that can look from every side, corner, and more realistic (real object).

Puppets are excellent teaching aids, especially with younger children. Not only can the teacher use them to communicate the important points of a language item but they can increase pupil participation in teacher-dominated classroom.

Advantages and disadvantages of using Puppet.

PROCESS OF MAKING GLOVE PUPPETS

See the sample script.

Practice contrasting teacher voice between two or three puppet.

Intonation must be stressed to give a realistic character of puppets, for example the puppet is a anger cat.

Make student be a participant, and not just an audience.

USING MEDIA IN TEACHING AND LEARNING PROCESS

Media is very important to students because students with learning media more easily understand the lesson, and it's should be practiced by all teachers, because by learning more effective use of media will make the students understand and excited. Interesting media will be prepared students one of them puppet that easy to learn and understood by students. Puppet is one of most effective media in teaching. But in making this media requires a skilled hand because the media is very complicated and many times for make it before we use.

Rowlands, D., A Puppet Theatre for Language Teaching, Materials Development Unit, Language Teaching Centre, University of Newyork.

Yunus, Noor Azlina.1981. Preparing and Using Aids. Malaysia : Vinlin Press Sdn

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Education is a primary need in the human life. Education is an investment for long time. Education can give human knowledge and insight. Getting education help us to develop our skill and intelligence. The education can give very good effect for human for along life to make a better life.

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Storytelling using props (puppets)

1.Using a puppet to tell a story is a wonderful technique that can lead children to discover the joy of literature and learning.

2.Puppets can be used “anyway, anywhere, and anytime” to bring stories to life and to spark young imaginations.

3.It doesn’t take a professional puppeteer or an expensive puppet to make storytelling with puppets “work.”

4.Telling stories with puppets can also be a terrific technique for new storytellers.

5.Knowing that the audience is focusing on the puppet can help a beginning storyteller to relax and have more fun with their stories.

6.The art of storytelling is about bringing stories to life, and puppets provide us with a great way to do just that.

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How to know when students are engaged in music and movement in the classroom?

1.The students are involved and participate in the activities rather than lazying in their chair.

2.They enjoy themselves while learning new experiences.

3. The students create a positive climate in the classroom.

4.The students make their progress in the subject taught by the teachers.

5.Students improved their language skills.

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Steps to do music and movement in classroom

-Step 1

1.Play music and encourage them to dance freestyle.

2.Use a variety of different types of songs or music and demonstrate some different ways to move to the music.

-Step 2

1.Give the children an easy musical instrument such as drum or tambourine and teach them how to play.

2.Tell them to create a circle or a marching band as they play their instrument.

-Step 3

1.Teach the students songs and movements preferably the easy ones so that they can follow.

-Step 4

1.Make up some chants according to their standard levels.

2.Encourage them to stomp their feet, clap their hands or jump once they have mastered clapping to the beat of the song.

-Step 5

1.Play musical activities or games that include many movements.

2.Games like "Magic Statue" where it can encourage students to dance until the music stops which is when they to act like a immobile statue.

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c) Cognitive Development

-Singing relevant songs can help children to learn science, math, and language concepts

-Music can also assist with memorization. When items to be memorized are set to music, children remember them more readily

Source : http://www.education.com/reference/article/music-center-enhance-children-development/

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How the Music Center Enhances Children's Development | Education.com

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Examines how participation in music activities can enhance the physical, language, social-emotional, and cognitive development of young children.

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Children's development through music and movement

1. a) Social Development

- Provide opportunities for children to explore and respond to the environment and music.

-Listening to music also exposes children to other times and cultures and provides the opportunity to gain appreciation for them

-children can develop confidence in their movements and physical abilities, enjoying challenge and learning how to stay safe

b) Physical Development

- Enhanced with opportunities to develop large and small motor skills, gradually moving in ways which are more controlled, including stopping and starting, balancing and holding positions, etc

- Children gain skills in negotiating space and objects, moving spontaneously and in response to music.

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Why Storytelling?

1. storytelling is accessible to all ages and abilities.

2.Gaining verbal skills.

3.Only using the Imagination.

Source

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Story Arts | Storytelling in the Classroom

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Educational Web site, designed for teachers, librarians, and students,explores the use of storytelling in the classroom to enhance speaking, listening, reading and writing skills.

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1.Storytelling is the art in which a teller conveys a message, truths, information, knowledge, or wisdom to an audience - often subliminally - in an entertaining way, using whatever skills.

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steps to be a good storyteller:

1. know your audience.

-interact them by asking questions to get their attention.

2. build the scene

-use words and gestures that are strong to make it look more realistic

3. build tension and release tension.

-Real life includes moments between the things that happen to us. Stories should too.

4. focus on what's important.

-in a story, it's important to put in the details but too much is not good,so cut the unimportant details and stick to the point.

5. keep the flow logical.

-tell the story in a good flow and smoothly without any "oh i forgot to mention that...."

6. make it feel conclusive.

-when you're done, you should ask questions to tell them that the story that has ended. you should also use the right tone and state the moral of the story.

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Whether you're telling a joke, telling a fairy tale, or trying to persuade someone with a little empirical evidence, telling a story well is an important skill. While it comes naturally to some, for others this skill is a learned one....

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Steps for storytelling :

1. Understand your brand and audience; speak in an authentic voice

2. Get your facts straight with 5 Ws.

3. The power of specifics, details, and imagery

4. Show,don’t tell

5. Know the end at the beginning