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Art is an important feature of children's learning. The word 'Art' itself is a wide area consist of dance, drama, media, music and visual arts. Art is a form of expression and communication through different forms like sound, silence, visuals and symbols. My inquiry is about how arts play their important role in the children's learning process. As this unit focus on the concept of 'Musicking' and my inquiry is also based on how this process of Musicking- which includes music, movement, sounds and listening and how they play an important role in children's learning.

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Atelier as workshop of materials.

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Aboriginal culture and art is any art made by Aboriginal people and a dot painting is one of the particular types of Aboriginal art. My dot painting is inspired from Aboriginal art and although it does not contribute much in promotion of this vast culture but I have tried to contribute a little by making this painting. Here I have added the dot painting inspired by the Aboriginal art originated in 1970s.

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Listening is a part of our identity. When we listen deeply to the nature, we start realizing the internal listening that encourages us to listen to others too and turns out to be an important part of our learning. Listening to a conversation, music or natural activities encourages us to listen with all our senses and not with ears alone.

Children have the ability to decode the data and interpret it with creativity.

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Each material have different and unique qualities and shows different meanings based on their physical qualities. I am showing here a flower made with paper and highlighted it in my assessment 2 'Paper and Movement'.

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Art of music is creating music and making instrument. In this unit, we tried to make an instrument at home in the fourth week. I tried to make something that was easily available and created two different sounds. Here is the video.

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Different types of art media represents art and plays a role in the child's learning like fingerpaint, easel paint. It also includes exploring different type of colors like oil pastels, tempera paint and chalk pastels (painting on an easel-kids art activity, 2017).

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Painting on an easel - kids art activity

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Children are believed to be extraordinary listeners and "listen to others with generosity." The art of listening is an important quality and children demonstrate that they have a voice and have capacity to listen and want others to listen to them.  Culture can strongly influence the child's approach to learning. Open listening can develop all the human senses and develop the ability to recognize different languages and codes used for communication  (Rinaldi 2012, p.236).

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Art is a part of educational curriculum of most of the nations and they are defined in a different way according to the culture of the country in which they are created and where they are being followed.  My artwork represents aboriginal creation and a part of their rich diversity. Different activities related to arts are known as crafts which means to make hand-made objects to  represent the culture and diversity. Art in the form of craft is a communication that is beyond words (Roy, Baker & Hamilton 2015).

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Making music is considered as one of the basic life skills. It has been heard that children does not express music as adults does and Early childhood is the age which is a critical and important period for the musical development of a child. All the children are born with an ability to learn the basic skills like speaking and understanding their native language. In the same way, they have the ability to learn how to perform and their senses are developed enough that they can understand their cultural music (Levinowitz 1998).

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Materials are seemed to be vehicles for the learning and communication process. The atelier environment has made it possible through the materials to understand the expressive processes of children in a better way. Atelier is based on communication. Children's first encounter with materials involve investigation and action and it helps the children to make them learn about the process of what they can do with different materials. It inspires them to become  creative by building their own ideas and work on it (Schwall 2015, p. 49).

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Exploring art is considered as sensory activities for children. There are different techniques that can be used in early childhood to make the children explore texture, density and movement through a wide range of physical encounters that can help them in exploring art at higher levels. This exploration and learning is supported by the logical curiosity and can be foster by the reflective observation. Children gets involved with sensory materials physically and mentally and have the potential to notice and compare the textures and make connections with them (Pelo 2016, p.45).

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I as an early childhood educator would promote the concept of Multiple listening where education provider, educators and children in groups come together for a discussion and listen to each other. This concept will shift the focus on self-learning of children. by making the children listen to natural scenes or different music deeply can let them listen with all their senses and not only ears and can prove to be a great lesson for their learning.

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I have learnt about myself as an educator who will value and celebrate diversity between families, cultures and communities. I will apply this in my practice while implementing planned and unplanned curriculum. In my practice, I will consider all aspects of cultural and linguistic diversity. My focus will be on providing opportunities to children so that they can learn about similarities and differences in artwork and how  different forms of art has been created so that we can learn to represent our culture. We as an educators can encourage the children to connect with and to appreciate the uniqueness of this culture.

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As an educator, from what I have learnt, I would try to nurture the music abilities of the children by providing them necessary motivation and support. Music is an art and encouraging the children will ultimately foster their music potential and lead to their overall growth and development.

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Materials are sometimes unexpected for the children and we as adults hold a responsibility of making them realize to adopt a free attitude and think of materials as a never ending possibility. As an educator, I would realize the power of material like paper, charcoal and clay to illustrate their stories and will encourage the students to use different materials to discover the strategies and to formulate their own solutions.

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Artefact 6 Connection to Unit Reading and Implication for Practice

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Artefact 6 Connection to Unit Reading and Implication for Practice

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We live in a multicultural society and every culture is rich in its own kind of heritage and artwork. The Aboriginal artwork is not only based on the relationships with human but with places as well. So, one of the steps we can take in making our teaching practice and learning in early childhood is to build relationships and engage with the local places and by making the children learn about the aboriginal cultural in everyday moments of teaching. Teachers and students need to understand the Aboriginal relations and their communication styles. It is our responsibility to use language that respects the integrity and beliefs of the person and to respect the different families with different value which leads to positive environment and foster the child's learning about cultural beliefs (Yelland & Bentley 2017).

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(Embedding culture in practice for kindergarten teaching and learning, 2016).

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Embedding culture in practice for kindergarten teaching and learning

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5- Reflection and Implication for Practice

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5- Reflection and Implication for Practice

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Moving the studio art into classroom can help the children to gain more skills and can motivate them to use the studio art in critical thinking. I as an educator, can offer the child exploration around the studio and provide them fluency with art media and then later the children carry this fluency to everywhere they go and become their language of learning. In this way, art can help them grow a culture of inquiry in the programs they participate.

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My last artefact is about the relation of art with the place and its role in the development of child's learning. The first video is about building the confidence in children by allowing them to speak their language and to build the curriculum around the children for where they come from.  it is about making the children focus on the place from where they belong and feel confident about it (Being Proud and Strong-developing cultural identity in Indigenous early childhood education, 2016).

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Being Proud and Strong –developing cultural identity in Indigenous early childhood education

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Being Proud and Strong-developing cultural identity in Indigenous early childhood education (2016) Youtube video, Queensland Department of Education [Online], Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzGrS0EfjqE [Accessed 2 November 2020].

Embedding culture in practice for kindergarten teaching and learning (2016) Youtube video, Queensland Department of Education [Online], Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ_Ra8MnFe8 [Accessed 2 November 2020].

Levinowitz, LM 1998, ‘The Importance of Music in Early Childhood’, General Music Today, vol. 12, no. 1.

Painting on an easel-kids art activity (2017) YouTube video, Raising Dragons[ Online], Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni0PLCSi9B0[Accessed 2 November 2020].

Pelo, A 2016, ‘Exploring Textures and Movement’ in A Pelo (ed), The Language of Art: Inquiry-Based Studio Practices in Early Childhood Settings, Redleaf Press, pp. 44-50.

Rinaldi, C 2012, The pedagogy of listening: The listening perspectives of Reggio Emilia, Praeger, Santa Barbrara, Calif.

Roy, D, Baker, WJ & Hamilton, A 2015, excerpt from A vision for the arts in education, Teaching the arts: early childhood and primary education, 2nd edn, Cambridge University Press, Port Melbourne, VIC, pp. 11–13

Schwall, C 2015, ‘The Grammar of Materials’ in L Gandini, LT Hill, LB Cadwell, C Schwall & S Seidel (eds), In the Spirit of the Studio, Second Edition: Learning from the Atelier of Reggio Emilia, Teachers College Press, pp. 49-62.

Yelland, N & Bentley, DN 2017, Found in Translation : Connecting Reconceptualist Thinking with Early Childhood Education Practices, Taylor & Francis Group.