Reflection 8

Music is a very important thing and should be used in the classroom whenever possible. It really helps the students be involved and try to be creative in trying new things.

Some of my goals for teaching music are just rememebering to incooperate it whenever possible. From class i found that music can help students with beat and rythm as well as using your voice for good things instead of just yelling and being loud.

To help me in my planning as a teacher i am going to get the lesson plans from my peers so that i will have other ways to teach music with different books/curriculum. This mext week in class i hope to be able to see other ways that i can implement music into my class someday.

Reflection 7

This week we presented in our groups a book with creative children's dance. My understanding this week deepend, I was able to see everything that the groups did, and how they made it work with dance. Each group did something totally different which is awesome so that way we can get different ideas to use in the classroom.

From this past week i will be taking everything! I love that we can incooperate dance into books and things that we are learning in the classroom, it makes everything a lot more memorable. Coming up with these ideas and plans isn't easy though, it takes a lot of effort. So if you have good colleauges then i would suggest coming with ideas together because two heads or more are better than one!

Now i hope that i can be the teacher that puts creative dance into her lessons. I know that it will not be to easy at first, but once i get the hang of it i know that it will be worth it. The students will love it and learn so much from it. To prepare i will take all these wonderful ideas that we are doing in class and keep them in a folder so that i already have lessons plans made for me!

Reflection 6

This week in creative arts we talked about dance and how it can be incooperated into everyday lessons.

For me this week was really fun yet i could tell that a lot of effort went into preparing and giving the lesson. Dance is a fun thing and can really help the students to learn and express themselves in ways they never would have on their own. My teacher read "Where the Wild Things Are" to my class and she stopped on every page and we would dance out what was happening on each page. It was reall nice to get up and moving yet still be learning.

I know that i can/will take dance into my classroom when i am a teacher. It will help my students be active as well as creative. In a couple of weeks i will be going to feild and with everything that i am learning now i say "oh that'll be perfect for when i am teaching my own class someday," but i never have said " oh that'll be so fun to teach my kids in feild next week." So i now am going to say that i am excited to take dance and do my best to incooperate it into my feild work and make what i am teaching the kids fun and memorable .

Reflection 5

This week i learned that processed drama through text can be realy fun and exciting. It can take a little more work to come up with the activities, yet, at the same time it will make it more memorable.

There are so many different drama activities that me as a teacher can incooperate in my lessons. The presentations this week just showed how well drama can be taught in class. There are a lot of ideas that i want to bring into my classroom such as; turing off the lights, having background music if it is raining or birds are cherping, have the kids use their voices and body language and act like a character. There are many more ideas that i will take from this weeks lessons and put them in my class.

Right now i can do my best to learn everything and write it all down so that i will rememeber these ideas and teach them to my class. With everything that we did in class this week, i can see how different things were taught and hopefull use them in my class. I am excited to take everything I learned from drama and implement it into my teaching career one day.

Reflection 4

I loved learning about drama this week! The activities and games that we played are going to be perfect in the classroom. This week we learned games like; who started the motion, machines, mirror, story as one, and alphabet story.

All of these games get the children moving, learning and expressing themselves. You need creativity in your classroom for your sake and the childrens sake. Children like to be involved and create their own things. I think the machine game would be perfect for these students that like to create and use their imagination. Yet the motions game is good for those people that like to be the leader. Some people might not even know that they like to lead but this game can help them find that inner leader in them.

These games and activies are great at getting the kids involved and using their creative minds. I loved learning about drama, and i am excited to do my own activity with drama next week.