Arts

This week, I had the opportunity to work with students who had missed last weeks class on print making. I had the opportunity to teach my peers how to complete last weeks task and the theory behind it, and how we could implement arts in the classroom.

First of all I gathered all the resources that we needed and explained the print making task. The students found the task fun and creative and mentioned that I explained things clearly and effectively. I explained to my peers that print making is not only about arts, but how we could use the subject to focus on other areas of the curriculum for example literacy. We were focusing on “Windows in the west” by Avril Paton, which would be a great picture to inspire a creative writing piece. I think this was a very useful lesson to consolidate my knowledge and pass it onto others.

Music

“I can use my voice, musical instrument and music, technology to experiment with sounds, pitch, melody, rhythm, timbre and dynamics.

Music is such a powerful subject as it can help us develop in other areas and skills such as literacy, numeracy, creativity, social and personal development and many more. Music can help us to become successful learners, effective contributors, responsible citizens and confident individuals.

In this weeks seminar, we had the chance to create our own musical piece digitally through a software named Garage Band. Garage Band is a “fully equipped music creation studio” through your computer. It gave us the opportunity to create our own piece starting from the baseline and building it up from there.

As I am not familiar with musical terms, or composing any sort of music, this was a creative, easy fun way to do so! This would be a great tool for the classroom and I would feel comfortable teaching and letting children in my class explore this app. Here is a video of the music I created :