Wonderful experience by connecting with nature through music, movement and drama by Gurinder Kaur

Dancing and singing with ducks, leaves, trees, wind, and water.

kaurgurinder403 — 2025-04-03 18:56:36 UTC

To start on the country visit, I begin with Acknowledgement of the country -I acknowledge that we are on the traditional land of the Bunurong and Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. I pay my respect to their Elders Past, Present, and Emerging. I went to Craigieburn Waterview Boulevard Park and I walked around in the park to observe nature. I had an amazing experience observing with all my senses. as I began to walk around, I saw how the ducks were swimming in the water. It was a beautiful sunny day. The ducks were enjoying taking a bath in the water. The birds were chirping and flying from one tree to another. The flowers and trees have a unique smell and the bees were flying around them and sitting on the flowers to suck Pollen. As I walked through the lake, I felt a connection with the Aboriginal land and history. The leaves were rustling and the cool breeze was blowing them and making sweet voices.

Creative response - dancing and singing with ducks, water, birds, and trees

kaurgurinder403 — 2025-04-03 19:22:10 UTC

Creative response -On my country visit, the environment motivated me to sing and express my feelings on the ducks, water, wind, grass, leaves, and trees, and how they were telling their stories of joy while having fun in the pleasant weather.

An analytical response to creative work through drama.

kaurgurinder403 — 2025-04-03 19:28:56 UTC

During my on-country visit, I noticed how ducks were swimming in the water, and some were gathered in groups sitting on the grass as they were drying themselves in the sunshine while having a conversation with each other. It looked to me like they were creating a drama. It is imagination that saves us all from the obvious and the banal, from the ordinary aspects of life (Wendell, 2014). Some ducks decided to walk around on the grass, while others ducked down into the water. I wonder if ducks were having so much fun. I wish I could go in the water and swim like them, as I used to do in my childhood. I used to swim along with my siblings while singing, dancing, splashing, and chasing each other in the outdoor swimming pool.

This experience informs my future teaching practice that I can make children's learning fun while teaching them many concepts related to nature, music, dance, and drama. This approach provides us with new ways to think about the nature of the child as a learner (Gandini,2012). The whole movement, I was feeling thrilled with excitement and energy. This movement inspired me to be more creative and think through music, sound, movement, and drama. I would go out with children and let them enjoy the nature while peacefully close my eyes and feel the music of wind and nature. Creative play in natural environment is encouraged for the benefits it offer to children (Wilson,2018).

Analytic response to the artefact through sound, music, movement, sensation and feelings.

kaurgurinder403 — 2025-04-03 19:30:26 UTC

As I reflect on my experience during my country visit, which motivated me to create a beautiful poem on the ducks, wind, trees, birds, leaves, and water. That view was very enjoyable to observe from the parallax point of view. I felt like the whole environment was singing, dancing, and walking along with me. Music brings people together. Music is a language, it is a lifestyle (Wooten,2013). I heard the fountain was showering and filling up the lake. The birds were singing, and the ducks were dancing in the water as they enjoyed the sunshine and roamed around, ducking down into the water. The cool breeze was blowing, and leaves were rustling as they were talking to the tree branches. Listening is a life time practice and deep listening is mysteries practice (Oliveros,2015)

I felt the soft grass on my feet as they were welcoming me to admire the beautiful lake. The beautiful fragrance of the flowers was spreading around, and the whole environment was scented with their sweet smell. I feel like an endless drama and dance was going on, and the air flow was continuously making music. Ducks were enjoying their delicious feed in the water while swimming and thanking the Aboriginal land and ancestors for allowing them to be a part of it. Everything was moving around at their own pace, nothing was hurried, the lake, the ducks, the water, the trees, and even the wind were blowing gently and at their own pace. The whole environment was calm, no one was asking to hurry up. I would use this nature practice in my future teaching practice by using slow pedagogies and adapting the creation of music, sound, and drama through nature. As we can't hurry the river, we have to wait for rain to fill it up (Ungunmerr, 2017)

This visit informs my future practice about how children learn from nature and how they imagine nature from a different point of view than adults. Young children are encouraged to explore their environment through languages, including expressive communication, symbolic and imaginations (Gandini,2012) In the children's language, they would love to touch and feel the ducks, water, flowers, and leaves.

References

kaurgurinder403 — 2025-04-03 19:54:58 UTC

DADIRRI (Official Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr Video)2017

https://youtu.be/tow2tR_ezL8?si=uOVzXgvqo4G9qaf1

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.

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Music as a Language: Victor Wooten at TEDxGabriolaI

sland2013 https://youtu.be/2zvjW9arAZ0?si=46TG6MVxLmXSvN0I

The difference between hearing and listening | Pauline Oliveros 2015 | TEDxIndianapolis

https://youtu.be/_QHfOuRrJB8?si=QkKMwhNbe-ah1w5g

Wilson, R. A. (2018). Nature and young children: encouraging creative play and learning in natural environments. Routledge.