2) Take the time to prepare.

- Break the story into parts. 

-Practice with a recording device and a gentle-yet-truthful friend who can hear your first attempts.

3) Do not hesitate to remove the slow parts of your story.

- Storytelling occurs in the moment so not every detail has to be included each time. 

- Ask yourself, "Do I need to tell this piece of the story this time? Is it critical?"

4)  Use a strong and confident voice.

- Speak with clarity and confidence. 

- Enunciate and project your voice towards the listeners.

5) Use good pacing

- When you are confident, you will not be in a hurry but do not speak so slowly that their minds check out of the room.

6) Do not pass on the microphone.

 - Use the mic unless you are speaking to a few folks at a luncheon round-table event.

7) Use eye-contact with your listeners.

8) Make your gestures easy and calm.

- Your gestures should be natural and relaxed

9) Avoid the "moral of the story" finishes.

 - Let the story speak to the audience in its own way and skip the need to tell them what to think.

If you must do the "moral" of a story, ask your audience first to tell you what they think. Their answers might teach you.

http://www.storyteller.net/articles/296

2. Music is a creative experience which involves expression of feelings. Children often do not have the words to express themselves and need positive ways to release their emotions.

3. Music is perfectly designed for training children's listening skills. Good listening skills and school achievement go hand in hand. Their listening skill will improve right away because they will focus more when listen to music.

4. Music evokes movement, and children delight in and require movement for their development and growth.

http://www.musikgarten.org/music_movement.cf

http://www.songsforteaching.com/preschoolkindergartenearlychildhood/activity-movement-songs/

1) Developing speaking and listening skills. 

Children often communicate more easily with puppets, giving them confidence to express their ideas and feelings. Scary animal hand puppets can help children master uncomfortable feelings.

2) Helps young children develop creative skills by forcing them to use their imaginations. They make up the roles, the rules, the situations and the solutions.

3) Build their reading, comprehension, and vocabulary skills, building on their ideas by introducing new words, their meanings and other information.

4) Stimulate their thinking process and make learning more interesting

Disadvantages

-Focus on the hand-puppets because it can overstress

1) Need participations.

2) Can bring out unintended emotions or outcomes.

3) Threatening to some individuals

4) Difficult to manipulate

http://prezi.com/rg0sbckqlipv/individualized-differentiated-instruction-and-storytelling-puppets/

http://www.scribd.com/doc/21559836/Advantages-and-Disadvantages-of-Teacher-Made-Materials

http://www.learningtoys.ca/english/benefits-puppet-play

http://www.slideshare.net/kokilavaaninarayanan/the-importance-of-puppets (read more at this link

2. When you have mastered this use of music in your classroom, go on to explore a new method.

3. Your students enthusiasm and response will be a guideline and incentive for future ideas and uses.

http://education.jhu.edu/PD/newhorizons/strategies/topics/Arts%20in%20Education/brewer.htm

 Introduction of puppet play

Puppetry is an old, traditional art, which is still active in almost every culture, used in many different contexts, for spiritual, cultural and educational teaching. As puppetry is primarily a visual art, it can communicate to people who are not literate or who do not understand spoken language and it has been used in this way for thousands of years.

Puppetry is a form of theatre or performance which involves the manipulation of puppets. It is very ancient, and is believed to have originated 3000. Puppetry share the process of animating inanimate performing objects. Puppetry is used in almost all human societies both as an entertainment - in performance - and ceremonially in rituals and celebration.

http://changingminds.org/disciplines/storytelling/telling_stories/using_props.htm

http://www.slideshare.net/kokilavaaninarayanan/the-importance-of-puppets

Here is a video. Enjoy it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storytelling

Here is a video of storytelling. ;)

• allow children to experience diverse cultures

• enable children to empathise with unfamiliar people/places/situations

• offer insights into different traditions and values

• help children understand how wisdom is common to all peoples/all cultures

• offer insights into universal life experiences

• help children consider new ideas

• reveal differences and commonalties of cultures around the world  

-encourages participations ,sharing and cooperations

- a part of early bonding process and part of the basic enculturation of childhoods

2) cognitive developement

- understand about music is a form of intelligent

- it nurtures other forms of intelligences such as linguistics or logical-mathematical

- musical intelligence involves children's ability to proces mentally the tonal aspects of rhytm and melody

3) physical developement

- make them involves with games such as play hide and seek , rolling and cathing a ball , or play music and dance with them .

- provide them to participate in jump , dance and climbing .

- walking a chalk line to develop their coordination and balance .

here are the links .

http://www.livestrong.com/article/168071-activities-that-promote-physical-cognitive-creative-development/#page=2

http://www.slideshare.net/mobile/pakkun/music-and-movement