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

- They started to follow the steps of movement with the rhythm of the music

-They begin to take part in the activities of classroom

- They will sing along the song

- They will show their positive expression

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Music Movement Activities for Children Ages 3-5

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Music and movement activities encourage the development of fine motor skills and coordination in young children. Such activities can help children burn off some of their excess energy while providing exercise and teaching rhythm. Classroom or home messes and the accidental bumping into each other can be avoided by conducting the activities outside, if possible.

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4. steps to dom

1. Mental capacity and intellect. There is a connection between music and the development of mathematical thinking. Mathematical concepts are developed as children sing counting songs.

2. Mastery of the physical self. Children develop coordination, which aids muscular development. They begin to understand what they can do with their bodies as they run, balance, stretch, crawl, and skip.

3. Development of the affective aspect. Through music and movement, children learn acceptable outlets to express feelings and relieve tension. Music may also convey a specific mood through which children reveal their feelings and emotions.

4. Development of creativity. Music can create an imaginary world that stimulates a child’s creativity. A box can become a drum, a stick can be transformed into a horn, or a broom can become a dance partner. Children take up songs or give new words to old songs for pure enjoyment.

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Four Important Reasons for Including Music in the Classroom | Education.com

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Did you know that a child's awareness of music begins very early? Music and movement activities are essential for young childrens' development.

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3. Examples of group singing and movement activities in the classroom.

Movement and Circle Games

Grade Levels: Pre-K - 2

The activities in this section are effective in helping children:

demonstrate an awareness of music as a part of daily life

develop kinesthetic pattern recall

develop spatial awareness

engage in play with "rules"

exercise cooperation and social interaction

gain sequential recall

learn to interact with and communicate with others

participate freely in music activities

respond through movement to music

"The Telephone Rings"

This song is a playful way for children to sing their names at gathering time. This experience also suggests to children that singing is a natural part of their lives as they pass the telephone for individual singing.

Procedures

1. Sing the song several times for the children. Then, lead them in singing it as a group until they all know it.

2. With the children seated in a circle, pass a toy telephone (which can be simply a u-shaped tube) around.

3. When each child holds the telephone, it is his or her turn to sing the song, adding the name of the next child at the end.

Click here to listen to this song in MP3 format (254k)

"Ring Around the Rosie"*

This is a singing game that works for toddlers, preschool, and primary age children. It is an exercise in sequential recall as well as kinesthetic pattern. The children exercise memory and develop a sense of spatial awareness with singing game activities.

1. Sing this song with the children either turning in a circle alone or holding hands in small groups that walk in circle formation as they sing "Ring around the rosie / A pocketful of posies / Ashes, ashes…we all fall down."

2. As everyone tumbles to the floor, the teacher quickly begins tapping a beat on the floor and chants the following words to get everyone back on their feet again, "The cows are in the meadow / Eating buttercups / A-tishoo, a-tishoo / We all stand up."

3. Use this activity as a circle time activity or on the playground or just as a break in the day. It serves the children well as a spontaneous play activity.

*Traditional song and chant material from the collections of John Feierabend.

"Shoo Fly"

Singing games are experiences in kinesthetic art. They also engage the children in activities that develop sequential awareness as well as an understanding of spatial relationships. Singing games are exercises in movement puzzles. Memory and sequential recall play large roles in the thinking of the children. Cooperation and social interaction dominates a singing game activity.

Procedures

1. Sing the song with the following action:

Children pretend to slap the fly off their knees while singing the lines, "Shoo Fly! Don’t bother me / Shoo Fly! Don’t bother me / Shoo Fly! Don’t bother me, for I belong to somebody."

With partners or alone, have the children turn in a small circle while singing new lines to the tune: "I feel like a morning star / I feel like a morning star / I feel like a morning star, for I belong to somebody."

2. Have the children repeat the slapping verse again, then sing and circle to "I feel like a rainbow rain."

3. Repeat the sequence with the words "I feel like a sunshine day" to the verse in which the children circle.

4. Encourage the children to begin alone and then to add a partner.

5. After the children achieve a comfort level with these stages, increase the circle size to four and then to eight.

"Pumpkin Patch"

This experience is based on the familiar folk tune, "Paw Paw Patch." This experience enhances children’s development in many areas: in collaborating with others in a group, in playing an organized game with "rules," in following a symbolic representation of sounds, in internalizing a sense of tonality and rhythm through singing, moving, and representing a song through pictures.

Procedures

1. As the children sit in a circle, sing the song. As you sing the first verse, starting "Where, oh where is dear little [name of child]," everyone in the circle looks for the child named.

2. As you sing the second verse, "She’s picking up the pumpkins, putting them in the basket … Way down yonder in the pumpkin patch," that child goes to the part of the room designated the "pumpkin patch" and picks up imaginary pumpkins one by one.

3. Have the children follow the song map as they sing.

4. Involve the children in new places that Mary may be visiting, and ask them to draw related pictures constructing their own song maps.

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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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6. Advantages and disadvantages of using puppets

ADVANTAGES

- Puppets can stimulate children’s imagination, encourage creative play and discovery and are a wonderful interactive way to introduce narrative to even the most reluctant reader.

- Puppets can assist children with special educational needs

- Puppets can share joy or sadness; they can be naughty or good, cheeky or shy; and when a child is engaged by a puppet they can learn lessons and absorb messages without even realising they are

- Puppet can encourage the quietest of children to start talking

DISADVANTAGES

- No economize

- Need complete concept

- The process of making is very complicated

- Time-consuming to make it.

LINK : http://www.puppetsforeducation.co.uk/Puppets-in-Education_A7NZT.aspx

http://rinqa-anwar.blogspot.com/2013/02/media-and-learning-resources.html

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5. Storytelling using props (puppets)

- Using a puppet to tell a story is a wonderful technique that can lead children to discover the joy of literature and learning. Puppets can be used “anyway, anywhere, and anytime” to bring stories to life and to spark young imaginations. It doesn’t take a professional puppeteer or an expensive puppet to make storytelling with puppets “work.” Puppets can be made out of anything from catalogs to paper cups, and from envelopes to plastic straws. If you use your imagination, the possibilities are almost endless. Even the simplest, hand-made puppet can be thrilling for a young child. Telling stories with puppets can also be a terrific technique for new storytellers. Knowing that the audience is focusing on the puppet can help a beginning storyteller to relax and have more fun with their stories. The art of storytelling is about bringing stories to life, and puppets provide us with a great way to do just that.

LINK : http://www.libsci.sc.edu/storytelling/techniques/collinspuppethanout.pdf

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Children's development towards music and movement :

COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT

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

- History and geography can also be enhanced by examining the music of the time period or geographic area. Music can also assist with memorization.

- Music is organized mathematically. Music and math support one another As children hear and move to a beat or read music, they use one-to-one correspondence skills. As they recall a series of sounds or actions (head, shoulders, knees and toes) they gain seriation skills.

PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT

- Mastery of the physical self. Children develop coordination, which aids muscular development. They begin to understand what they can do with their bodies as they run, balance, stretch, crawl, and skip.

SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

- Social skills, such as empathy, sharing, taking turns and cooperating with others, are important attributes for the development of happy and successful relationships and lifelong learning in all subjects. Social relations affect children's cognitive and emotional development. Young children typically respond with energy and enthusiasm to dance, music and movement sessions. Cross-curricular links that incorporate social development learning objectives into planned dance activities nurture children's creativity and physical skills, while encouraging self-awareness and awareness of others.

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Four Important Reasons for Including Music in the Classroom | Education.com

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4. steps to be a good storyteller

1) know you brand and audience which is writing a story from the voice of the brand necessitates understanding the voice and personality of the brand.

2) Get your facts straight with 5 Ws which is ask question to yourself.

3) The power of specifics, details, and imagery . There’s an unmistakable power to facts and details. They provide an anchor for our attention, a seed for our imagination, and a proof point to your claims.

4) Show, don’t tell . Dumping the back-story on an audience before you get to the interesting stuff is a sure-fire way to lose your audience. Pick out the information you can’t live without and discard the rest.

5) Know the end at the beginning . In an ideal world, you’d start your story with an outline, a framework of plot points intended to move your story from A to Z, perhaps with some detours and misdirection, but still always moving forward.

link : https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140405112844-40671440-5-steps-to-successful-storytelling

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3. Step for storytelling.

1) read and understand the story first

2) adapt the story

3) need practice before proceed with performance

link : http://www.creativeyouthideas.com/resources/improving-your-teaching/steps-to-storytelling/

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2. Why storytelling ?

: In education

-Storytelling helps students be active not only in presenting but also in focused listening and reacting, enhancing the vital skills of communication

-storytelling can improve academic performance.

-student can improve their vocabulary

-student learnn core academic skills including math and science as well as lamguage art skills

-Writing skills are strengthened as students examine the structure of a story

link : http://www.storynet.org/resources/YES%20Position%20Paper.pdf

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1. Definition of storytelling

-storytelling is an ancient art form and a valuable form of human expression.

-storyteling is an interactive art of using words and action to reveal the elements and images of a story while encouraging the listener’s imagination.

-it involve two way interaction which is a storyteller and one or more listener

-always involves the presentation of a story- a narrative

link : http://www.storynet.org/resources/whatisstorytelling.html