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My artefact - Train, tree, car, leaves, sunrise with orange hue

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My artefact - Train, tree, car, leaves, sunrise with orange hue

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Reflection

As I walked through, my senses were amazed by the beauty around me. The landscape is breathtaking; I see a clear sky with warm orange tones as the sun slowly rises and the soothing sounds in the air. I can hear natural sounds around me, such as the rustling of leaves, birds chirping, and the gentle sound of the wind through open spaces. Also, I hear a train passing by, yet my surroundings remain peaceful in the early morning. I can feel the movement of branches swaying, leaves falling, and people walking nearby. Each sound blends beautifully, creating a peaceful harmony. As I take a deep breath, I smell the fresh morning air and the refreshing scent of grass and trees. Even though it’s cold, I can feel the warmth of the rising sun touching my skin, which gives me goosebumps and a sense of mindfulness. The environment is still quiet, but I love this atmosphere. I feel calm, energized, and ready to start my day. For me, it feels like a blessing to wake up each morning, take a simple walk, capture all the moments, and appreciate the beauty around me with a healthy body.

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My creative response - sound, movement, dramatical play

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My creative response - sound, movement, dramatical play

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I got my inspiration from the train I saw in the video. I created my response to illustrate my creative expression through sound, movement, and dramatic play.

I sang my original song about trains, including the "choo choo" from what I heard to mimic the train’s sound as part of my storytelling.

I pretended to be a train driver as part of my dramatic play. In that drama, I welcomed my passenger and said thank you after they joined the ride with me.

Additionally, my movements mimicked a train’s motion; I used my hand, moving around like we are still going to our destination, which added a physical element to my storytelling and made the experience more interesting.

This creative play was an exciting experience for me. I never imagined I could create a simple song about a train and use my imagination to become a train driver. It made me realize how children engage with the world, using sound and movement to explore their surroundings. "Play in natural environments provides far more opportunities for development and learning" (Wilson, 2018, p. 6). Even for me, an everyday experience like seeing a train can be transformed into an artistic exploration, which promotes my creativity. I believe that when children play in nature, they have more opportunities to explore, create, and learn, supporting their learning and development.

Link to my video:

https://youtube.com/shorts/Z3nORVoYeSU?si=_pOQ9zU1fM69jJ_e

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gOJr2oHZG9zBnuWr4jCiZLMevMmjxNeD/view?usp=sharing

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Reflecting on my video and my creative response, such as singing a song about trains, mimicking train sounds, and incorporating movement and dramatic play, I learned how temporal arts languages can work together to create an immersive learning experience. It captures place, movement, and sensory experience, much like what I explored in Wala is Life (Allara, 2018).

As I stood there, I watched a train passing with the soft orange sky of the sunrise, which reminded me that sound and rhythm tell stories. Allara (2018) uses music to create connections to land and nature, and my picture reflects a similar idea, like how the sounds of nature and the train blend together, forming their own kind of music when I record it.

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Additionally, this connects to Music as a Language (Wooten, 2013), as the sounds around me connect with my emotions. Without realizing it, the rustling of leaves, the chirping of birds, and the passing train tell a story about my daily routine on my way to school. I enjoy my morning walks while listening to my surroundings. It has been a few weeks since I started taking this route, and I never realized how these small moments make me feel grateful for what I can see and hear, even when I feel sleepy sometimes.

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Wilson (2018) highlights how the natural environment is a place where children can explore their surroundings through sensory experiences and physical activity. Looking back at my video when a train was passing through an orange sky, I captured this moment, and then I transformed it into a song, movement, and dramatic role-play, aligning with Wilson’s perspective on nature-based play. Moreover, Wilson (2018) added that play also supports social and emotional growth, teaching children to share, cooperate, take turns, and negotiate. I believe that through play children can explore and understand themselves, which helps them build their confidence, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.

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Connection to future practice in early childhood setting

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Connection to future practice in early childhood setting

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This experience strengthens my belief to integrate music, movement, and dramatic play into early childhood learning practice in the future. Baltagi describes music has an impact on a child’s development as it can improve social skills and benefit children of all ages (UNICEF, 2019). I want to encourage and implement open-ended learning experiences where children can use sound and movement to express their understanding of the world, whether through storytelling, dance, or music-making, which can be a fun activity; for example, children can pretend to play any music using any materials or making it themselves from recycled materials (a drumstick from a twig tree, a plastic bottle, and a rock), or children also can mimic animals such as a bird flying or a kangaroo jumping, and so on. Children also can engage in creative and dramatic play to play any roles that catch their attention during observation.

“Without listening, without being responsive to the ideas of others, there can be neither learning nor teaching” (Gandini, 2012, p. 312). As an educator, I want to support children’s growth and shape their learning by providing opportunities for creative exploration. Furthermore, I will promote an inclusive learning environment to encourage each child's unique way of thinking and expressing themselves.

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Allara. Wala Is Life. (2018). Www.youtube.com. https://youtu.be/1XACgej9L80

Gandini, L. (2012). The atelier: A conversation with Vea Vecchi. C. Edwards, L. Gandini, & G. Forman (Eds.), The hundred languages of children: The Reggio Emilia experience in transformation (3rd ed., pp. 303–316). ABC-CLIO, LLC. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/vu/reader.action?docID=820317&ppg=330

Is your baby getting enough music? | UNICEF. (2019, June 12). Is your baby getting enough music? | UNICEF. YouTube. https://youtu.be/gIwhGbnY_uI

Wilson, R. A. (2018). Nature and young children: Encouraging creative play and learning in natural environments (3rd ed.). Routledge. https://go.openathens.net/redirector/vu.edu.au?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.taylorfrancis.com%2Fbooks%2Fmono%2F10.4324%2F9781315148533%2Fnature-young-children-ruth-wilson

Wooten, V. (2013). Music as a Language: Victor Wooten at TEDxGabriolaIsland. YouTube. https://youtu.be/2zvjW9arAZ0