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Assessment 3 by https://padlet.com/yanpingzhao4/gonm9q7xfdnzut1n Multimodal Portfolio en-us 2023-03-10 13:12:02 UTC 2026-03-13 00:37:42 UTC hello@padlet.com Summary of Learning (session 1 Music) yanpingzhao4 https://padlet.com/yanpingzhao4/gonm9q7xfdnzut1n/wish/2511830397 What is music? Before, I thought that music was mysterious and unreachable, learning music was only for the music talents and in a systematic way.
Victor Wooten's talk "Music as A Language" deeply touched me. I couldn't help thinking that our children are born to be the musician, to be the dancer or the artist. They are intrinsic and competent. Our role is to find their talent and cultivate it. During their learning, it is no right or wrong in the process. Give children freedom when they were learning and exploring. We need to deeply understand children’s complex ways of knowing the world around them.]]> 2023-03-10 13:25:12 UTC https://padlet.com/yanpingzhao4/gonm9q7xfdnzut1n/wish/2511830397 Summary of Learning (session 2 Movement) yanpingzhao4 https://padlet.com/yanpingzhao4/gonm9q7xfdnzut1n/wish/2511915514 I can never tell so much difference between hearing and listening until I watched Paulin Oliveros' TED talk. She said,
“The ear does not listen – the brain listens." "Listening is a lifetime practice that depends on accumulated experiences with sound.” We all know more about hearing than listening. we can hear use our ears. But we need to use our brain and our heart to listen to the music, listen to the environment.
For me, from now on, I would take more chances to listen deeply to the surrounding world and to our young children's voices.

]]> 2023-03-10 14:28:59 UTC https://padlet.com/yanpingzhao4/gonm9q7xfdnzut1n/wish/2511915514 Reference List yanpingzhao4 https://padlet.com/yanpingzhao4/gonm9q7xfdnzut1n/wish/2511918699 Adena B. Meyers, Laura E. Berk, 2014 The SAGA Handbook of Play and Learning in Early Childhood SAGA Reference ISBN: 9781473907850

Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-43367-0 — Teaching the Arts 2nd Edition Excerpt More Information
https://assets.cambridge.org/9781107433670_excerpt.pdf (cambridge.org)

Cooper, M 2012, The hundred languages of children: the Reggio Emilia experience in transformation, 3rd edn, ABC-CLIO, LLC, pp. 295–302.

Deans, Jan & Wright Susan (2018) Dance-Play and Drawing-Telling as Semiotic tools for Young Children's Learning Routledge

Diann Gano, Sharron Krull 2020 Natural Sensory Learning http://www.communityplaythings.com/resources/articles/natural-sensory-learning

Hamm, C 2015, ‘Walking with place: Storying reconciliation pedagogies in early childhood education’, Canadian Children, vol. 40, no. 2, Canadian Association for Young Children, Calgary, pp. 56–66, viewed

Marisa Lark Wallin 2019 The importance of Pretend Play in Natural Settings Communityplaythings http://www.communityplaythings.com/resources/articles/the-importance-of-pretend-play-in-natural-settings

PAULINE OLIVEROS: THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HEARING AND LISTENING TED-ED https://youtu.be/_QHfOuRrJB8

Ungunmerr-Baumann, MR 2002, Dadirri: Inner deep listening and quiet still awareness, Emmaus Productions, pp. 1–4, http://www.dadirri.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Dadirri-Inner-Deep-Listening-M-R-Ungunmerr-Bauman-Refl1.pdf.

Victor W 2016 Music As A Language TED-ED https://youtu.be/2zvjW9arAZ0

]]> 2023-03-10 14:30:52 UTC https://padlet.com/yanpingzhao4/gonm9q7xfdnzut1n/wish/2511918699 Summary of Learning (session 3 drama) yanpingzhao4 https://padlet.com/yanpingzhao4/gonm9q7xfdnzut1n/wish/2511946146 Different people have the different perspectives when they look their surrounding world. So different people have the different definitions of the drama. When our lecturer asked us to find the light in our space, everyone has their unique artwork. After learning this session, I started to slow down my paces when I was walking. I tried to observe the environment around me, using all of my senses, my eye, my ears, my nose, my fingers, my skin, my deep heart...... To my surprise I can find much much more sounds, sceneries, dramas on the very familiar places. ]]> 2023-03-10 14:50:33 UTC https://padlet.com/yanpingzhao4/gonm9q7xfdnzut1n/wish/2511946146 Summary of Learning (session 5 playing with music, movement and drama) yanpingzhao4 https://padlet.com/yanpingzhao4/gonm9q7xfdnzut1n/wish/2511975948 As educator, we should know the vast amount of learning is available when children are connected to nature. and young children learn primarily through their senses. The natural world, with its constantly changing and stimulating elements, provides the ultimate sensory learning environment.
Creating environments that give our youngest learners the time, space, and opportunities to explore and investigate will provide meaningful learning experiences. We can create engaging and wonder-filled environments that promote learning through all eight of their senses-auditory, gustatory, visual, olfactory, tactile, vestibular, proprioception, and enteroception. (Gano & Krull, 2020, P1)

]]> 2023-03-10 15:12:08 UTC https://padlet.com/yanpingzhao4/gonm9q7xfdnzut1n/wish/2511975948 Summary of Learning (session 4 Playing with Music) yanpingzhao4 https://padlet.com/yanpingzhao4/gonm9q7xfdnzut1n/wish/2512361469 Music can play an important role in our children's development. At early ages, music helps children express themselves and share their feelings. Even at an early age, they can sway, bounce, move their hands in response to music they hear. (Dr. Ibrahim H. Baltagi, 2020)
After learning this session, I began to realize that music is full of our living environment, if we connect with the place using the music language. As the educator, what we need to do better is to expose our children to the music environment to ignite all areas of development. Let them sing and dance in the music. They will learn to laugh, repeat words and create their songs, and move their bodies, appreciate their own dance.......

]]> 2023-03-10 21:52:40 UTC https://padlet.com/yanpingzhao4/gonm9q7xfdnzut1n/wish/2512361469 Summary of Learning (session 6 Playing with Movement) yanpingzhao4 https://padlet.com/yanpingzhao4/gonm9q7xfdnzut1n/wish/2512384000 I love music and I love sport. I specially love the sports with music, such as the aerobics, yoga, zumba and ballroom dancing, etc. Whenever the music started playing, I always move my body along with music. I can gain energy and excitement through dancing.
After learning this session: playing with movement, I started to realize that our young children love music keenly and that dance in early childhood learning is fun and rewarding. Young children are made to move and are natural wigglers. Dance provides a fun movement activity while developing concentration and attentiveness. Dance-play activities encourage young children to practice balance and motor skills while stretching the imagination. As dancers, children explore space and time in active experiences, sharing feelings and making decisions about intentional movement.
As the educator, we need to "Keep in mind that stillness in young children causes fatigue. They do NEED to move." (Jan & Susan, 2018)

]]> 2023-03-10 22:38:18 UTC https://padlet.com/yanpingzhao4/gonm9q7xfdnzut1n/wish/2512384000 Summary of Learning (session 7 playing with drama) yanpingzhao4 https://padlet.com/yanpingzhao4/gonm9q7xfdnzut1n/wish/2512559514 Before, when talking about drama, I always thought it was about something far away to reach and always happened on the stage. After learning this session, I began to realize that drama is everywhere in our daily life, and it is always with us all the time. Dram actually is a way of expression through different kinds of performances.
For our young children, drama is in play, especially in pretend play. When children are given the space and time to play freely, their collaboration, creativity, imagination, inventiveness, problem-solving, coordination, physical strength is able to grow. Pretend play is a sacred part of childhood.
Outdoor play, a scarce opportunity for many children living in urban areas, can provide even more benefits for children’s development—physically, socially, and emotionally. With all that hangs in tenuous balance in our country, we as educators must be even more vigilant about every child’s human right to play in the great outdoors. (Wallin, 2019) ]]> 2023-03-11 08:15:49 UTC https://padlet.com/yanpingzhao4/gonm9q7xfdnzut1n/wish/2512559514 Summary of Learning (session 8 playing with all language combined) yanpingzhao4 https://padlet.com/yanpingzhao4/gonm9q7xfdnzut1n/wish/2512577049 Within this session, I learned the power of silence. Silence sometimes is very important to get children's attention and to invite them to focus on the sounds and build their thoughts and understandings during listening. As I asked children to be silent and listen to the sound from nature, to my surprise, they told me lots of sounds they could hear in the music with their imagination.
I also learned that story telling is a powerful tool used by all cultures and is priceless in the Early Childhood Education and development. Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr said in her "Dadirri" that it was their history to gather around the campfires and hear the sacred stories. When their children grow older, they themselves become the storytellers. This is the way the Aboriginal people "pass on to the young ones all they must know." (2015)]]> 2023-03-11 09:06:50 UTC https://padlet.com/yanpingzhao4/gonm9q7xfdnzut1n/wish/2512577049 Documentation Panel yanpingzhao4 https://padlet.com/yanpingzhao4/gonm9q7xfdnzut1n/wish/2512645864 Title:　Feeling the Breath of Spring

Ａ Short Summary of three experiences:

1 Sound/Music Activity: 　Listen to the sound of nature

2 Movement/Dance Activity: 　Yoga-The Tree in Spring

3 Drama Activity:　Children's Poem--What is the Spring Breeze Like?

Rationale:
These days, I have the chance to walk through a quiet path in the park of my hometown. It is surrounded by the bamboos and big tress. When I was walking on this path, I always slowed down my pace and I could feel the birds chirping on the branches, the spring breeze blowing on my cheeks. I enjoyed the serenity of that moment. And the early spring sunlight was shining through the dense bamboo grove, drawing various lines on the path, thin or thick, light or dark, straight or oblique...... swaying slightly in the spring breeze. Wright ever said, the Arts communicate in non-linguistic, expressive ways, culturally and through symbol. (2003). At that moment, I can feel the spring is coming to me, talking to me, cheerfully and gracefully. I can feel this artistic expression communicating with me in non-linguistic way.
In Yoga, this is the pose "swaying with the wind ": with both of the feet standing firmly on the earth, the body sway from side to side, like a tree, sway with the wind, gently but powerfully.
As an educator, I really wanted to share my feeling of the spring with children. I also wanted to invite these young children to be silent and quiet still to feel the spring also like me, and to express their feeling for this special season.
This is why I planned the three experiences for children to use their senses to feel the spring, use their body to express their feeling for spring and use their language to shape what is the spring breeze like.

]]> 2023-03-11 12:23:46 UTC https://padlet.com/yanpingzhao4/gonm9q7xfdnzut1n/wish/2512645864 Documentation Panel yanpingzhao4 https://padlet.com/yanpingzhao4/gonm9q7xfdnzut1n/wish/2512659104 Reflection:

1 Sound/Music Activity: 　Listen to the sound of nature.
I put the speaker on the floor and invited children to sit in a circle, close their eyes, listen to the sound of nature carefully and tell me what they heard.
They listened to the music quietly and peacefully. Surely, they found lots of sounds of nature in the music, the bird calls, the running water, the sound of leaves and wind, they can even hear the footsteps, saying that were the baby with her mummy walking in the forest........
To my surprise, they are so patient when listening to the music and their imagination is beyond my expectation.
Next time I would invite them to the nature environment and listen to the real sound of nature.

2 Movement/Dance Activity: 　Yoga-The Tree in Spring
When I introduced my first activity to listen to the music, I asked children to sit on the bottom and cross their legs, close their eyes and keep quiet. Actually, this is the Yoga Pose: The　Lotus. When I told them that we had already learned the 1st Yoga pose, they were so excited and eager to learn the 2nd one. The 2nd pose is the Tree Pose and the 3rd one is the Tree sways in the wind. To my surprise again, they did all the yoga poses so well, much better than I expected. One boy even wanted to show me other yoga poses he knew.
For the next time, I can also move the yoga class into the nature surrounding. Let children do the Tree pose beside the real trees. That would be so meaningful for children. They can feel the power of the tree when doing the postures beside the trees.

3 Drama Activity:　Children's Poem--What is the Spring Breeze Like?
The poem is a conversation between a child named JIA JIA and her parents. They were talking about the colures of the Spring Breeze. When I tried to repeat the poem, most of the children can recite it. Some could even add some elements in the same formula. It was so amazing.
Next time, I would extend the poem to any other contents. Let children have more chances to create their own poem. That would be so great.

]]> 2023-03-11 13:01:04 UTC https://padlet.com/yanpingzhao4/gonm9q7xfdnzut1n/wish/2512659104 Overall Reflection yanpingzhao4 https://padlet.com/yanpingzhao4/gonm9q7xfdnzut1n/wish/2513480902 I really benefit a lot after engaging with this unit content.
For me, music, dance and drama were so mysterious and unreachable but now I come to realize that they are everywhere in our life and always be with us, when we have a pair of eyes that can find beauty.
Nowadays, when I walk on the country, I always try to slow down my speed, use all of my sense to feel the surrounding world, to find beauty of nature.
I always remembered what Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr said about Dadirri " it is inner, deep listening and quiet, still awareness." (2015) When I invited children listen to the sound of nature quietly, they were so peaceful and calmly, I think they also could hear the deep spring within them just like me.
I also have a different view about the atelier. The role of the atelier is a rich and well-appointed research environment. As the educator, we need to understand deeply "children's complex ways of knowing the world around them " to better craft and educational approach worthy of children. (Cooper, M 2012 P295)
After learning this unit, I know that when playing in the nature environment, children use their senses to explore their world and build nerve connections in the brain's pathways, which is crucial to brain development, and develop their all the learning and social skills. So, it is our responsibility to create environment to give our youngest learners the time, space, and opportunities to explore and investigate.
As for the arts, I have a better understanding of its aesthetic and diversity. As the definition in "A vision for the Arts in education: "They are culturally determined, personally constructed, and open to a multitude of interpretations and meanings." (Teaching the art, P11)
I also learned that make-believe play and self-regulation are interrelated. (Meyers, Berk, 2014, P3) Vygotsky regarded make-believe as powerfully influential in children's learning and, especially, in their advancing self-regulation. (1978)
Through this unit, I also learned to think about place in different ways. We need to learn the stories of the place, to think with the place and to explore a specific way of place-thought to reconciliate pedagogies.
I gain much more than I can write down now. I feel so differently when I am again walking on the grasslands, like Catherine Hamm described in Walking with Place: Storying Reconciliation Pedagogies in Early Childhood Education "When I walk with the grasslands, I feel the warm sun on my face. I close my eyes to better focus on what is around me. I engage all my senses as I attempt to pay attention to 'who and what is this place with me.‘” （P26)

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