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This was an exploration into listening and how it can engage children to participate in learning colors by practicing listening.

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Unsplash (2018). Ricardo Resende (@rresenden) | Unsplash Photo Community. [online] unsplash.com. Available at: https://unsplash.com/@rresenden [Accessed 2 Nov. 2020].

Pressmaster (n.d.). Close-up shot of two pairs of little hands coloring mandala with felt-tip pens, pencils of different colors and illustrations laid on wooden table. Shutterstock. Available at: https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/close-shot-two-pairs-little-hands-590376242 [Accessed 2 Nov. 2020].

The Taylor House. (2015). Upcycled Pringles ® Can DIY Drum. [online] Available at: https://www.thetaylor-house.com/upcycled-pringles-can-diy-drum/ [Accessed 2 Nov. 2020].

‌krokotak.com. (n.d.). DIY Cardboard Box Car. [online] Available at: http://krokotak.com/2015/08/diy-cardboard-box-car/ [Accessed 2 Nov. 2020].

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This journal provides a digital visual inquiry into color and how it is connected to different artefacts that help children to explore the concept of colors. Exploring several readings from the unit and imaging new ideas to better convey the concept of color to children is articulated in each artifact.

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This was an exploration into music and how it evolves around children by eventually helping them learn about colors.

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What's Your Favorite Color? | Kids Songs | Super Simple Songs

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Music is a from of art that compels young children to take interest and be curious at the same time. The capable children share their own musical thoughts through recognition and movements. Arts involve expressive and symbolic modes of thinking, understanding and knowing, and communicate ideas in a unique manner (Wright, 2003a, p. 17). In this way each one of children show their individual approaches to learn various things, one of which is colors.

Colors not only bring a joy to music but also to children. Young and curious children participate willingly when anything musical is heard by them.

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Reflections and implications for practice

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I learnt that it is a form of creating new art when it comes to combine music and color in a learning environment. There are various factors influencing the musical learning of children such as gender, social, culture, etc. I also understood how music persists in everyday life and yet goes unnoticed. I even realized, how many things we all learn through music that generally goes par our realization.

I will implement learning about colors through music in an ECE setting by playing color song videos. I prefer to sing along with children to create joy and participation. I will also try to engage children in recognizing their cloths' colors by following the song and actioning according to it.

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Listening is an art that helps us understand the true nature of an object. For example: we often say, "listen to yourself before making a decision." Listening and doing are interconnected to each other. To master what we do, we must practice deep listening and engage children in the same. Deep Listening takes us below the surface of our consciousness and helps to change or dissolve limiting boundaries" (Oliveros 1999)

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I learnt that listening does plays a very important role in learning new and exciting things. We do what we hear or tell ourselves. We listen to ourselves.

I will implement learning colors by listening by engaging children in an activity where they are given a set of crayons to color an empty shape. For example: I will instruct children to color the cat in black color. In this way, they will listen and respond by picking up the black color.

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Understanding colors when musicking without walls

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Understanding colors when musicking without walls

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This was an exploration into how environment acts as teacher itself teaching children more about colors.

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Environment plays a very important role in growth and nourishment of children. It also acts as a teacher while automatically teaching children more about colors naturally.

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Michael, D., William James Baker and Amy Ruth Hamilton (2012). Teaching the arts : early childhood and primary education. Port Melbourne, Vic.: Cambridge University Press.

Pacini-Ketchabaw, V., Kind, S. and Kocher, L.L.M. (2017). Encounters with materials in early childhood education. New York: Routledge.

‌Chelsey (2015). Rainbow Science for Kids: Exploring Prisms. [online] Buggy and Buddy. Available at: https://buggyandbuddy.com/rainbow-science-for-kids-exploring-prisms/ [Accessed 2 Nov. 2020].

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Youtube. (2018). What’s Your Favorite Color? | Kids Songs | Super Simple Songs. [online] Available at: https://youtu.be/zxIpA5nF_LY [Accessed 2 Nov. 2020].

‌Youtube (2010). The Rainbow Colors Song. [online] YouTube. Available at: https://youtu.be/tRNy2i75tCc [Accessed 29 Oct. 2020].

‌Geologist explains painting with soil at Rice Gallery’s ’yamatane (2014). Geologist explains painting with soil at Rice Gallery’s “yamatane.” [online] YouTube. Available at: https://youtu.be/EbGqvjbD3vQ [Accessed 2 Nov. 2020].

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I learnt how nature and our eco-system play a role in teaching children about vibrancy and natural colors it comprises of.

I will implement learning about colors by playing rainbow color video songs and children can relate to natural rainbows when they see it.

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Understanding colors while recapitulating through music instruments

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Understanding colors while recapitulating through music instruments

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This was an exploration into how children will learn colors through music instruments by recapitulating them.

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Educators play a very important role in providing children with music instruments that do not go out of the budget. This is usually done by making a musical instrument of own. As mentioned in the unit readings, it can be seen there are a numerous ways of creating cheap instruments for children.

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I learnt how fascinating it is to make instruments of own and yet educating children at the same time about music and color.

While in an ECE setting, I will make small drums by utilizing different colored pringles chips bottles. I will fill some of the bottles with confetti, sparkles, small stones, etc. that would help to create a sound. I will ask children to bang the red drum and hear what sound it makes.

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Understanding colors while playing with paper

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Understanding colors while playing with paper

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This was an exploration into how children engage with paper and color at the same time.

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In the book, "Encounters With Materials in Early Childhood Education", it is explained how paper is used in early childhood development and classrooms by children and educators. Paper has its own inclinations and how it acts on and with water, walls, floors, doors, children's bodies, etc. (Pacini-Ketchabaw, Kind and Kocher, 2017)

This is how I drew a tree by using cotton buds and paint.

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I learnt how paper responds when it is combined to different objects, primarily with color and different forms of color such as water colors, powdered colors, crayons, etc.

I will implement the learning by giving colorful toy cars to children which they will dip in paint colors and drive on a sheet of paper to create path. I can also give them sticky notes of different colors and ask them to paste on similar colored toy cars.

(Davis, 2015)

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Understanding colors while utilizing junk

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Understanding colors while utilizing junk

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This was an exploration on how it is tremendous idea utilizing junk to create artwork and combining colors with it.

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"The beautiful stuff" pdf explains how well can we as educators enable children to use junk material to create outstanding and colorful objects. The act of constructing seems to give children both visual and tactical understanding of form. (Nichole {youclevermonkey}, n.d.)

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I learnt how to engage children with junk materials while also helping to preserve the eco-system at the same time.

I will engage children in an activity where they make a car using empty cardboards and coloring the outside of box by pasting paper on it.
(krokotak.com, n.d.)

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This was an exploration reflecting different types of soils and how they can be used for painting what children imagine.

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In the video, it is fascinating to see what art can different colors of soil create. Soil is a great element complementing our eco-systems and children can learn a lot from it.(Geologist explains painting with soil at Rice Gallery’s ’yamatane, 2014)

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Geologist explains painting with soil at Rice Gallery's 'yamatane'

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I learnt how soil can be used as a element to create what someone imagines and children given the opportunity can reflect upon their imagination while interacting with soil.

I will engage children by asking them to draw a tree using different colored soil on empty walls of backyard.

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This was an exploration about light and how it raises questions in mind of children such as "Why is this light red?", "How does light come from sun?", etc.

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Several videos from the unit explain how children experiment with light and get amazed by various shadows and colors it produces. The videos answer several questions that light raises.

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I learnt how light can reflect upon and amaze children's mind. Also, children get to know what each colored light means or reflects as they understand it more.

I will show children how a prism creates different colors of light, altogether creating a rainbow. I will then ask them to place the prism on paper and color the rainbow using the colored pencils.

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To summarize this visual journal, I can say that color is the core element around which all the other elements such as light, soil, paper, instruments, music, etc. revolve. It is the sole basis to the joy and fascination that each element hides in itself. Every child is drawn to different colors around them whether they exist in their toys or the beautiful nature around them.

I can conclude that I have myself drawn a lot of experience by experimenting and imagining it with different artefacts. This has taught me that how color is an essence to the beautiful activities that children engage with and this is what helps them to have such colorful and capable minds.