When children create dances using their ideas, they are empowered to explore their thoughts, feelings, and perspectives (Cone, 2011).

It is crucial that children have the opportunity to dance freely to express themselves. As I was a dancer my whole childhood, I think that it is very important that we incorpate dance into every day life and through out the children’s school life. As a student teacher, I think it is important that we let children feel empowered by creativity letting them know that there is no right or wrong answer through dance which may be the case in numeracy or literacy.

During today’s dance session, again we had the opportunity to be the learner however, we also had the chance to create our own moves. We were split up into groups to create a move to fit in with this weeks theme Halloween. The move we were to create was inspired by a printed out picture of a mummy. This gave us inspiration to create the dance move.

After creating a move, the whole class came together and we put all moves together creating a mini dance routine. I really enjoyed this workshop as it showed me how I can use easy stratigies in the classroom to create a dance. It also helped me to understand that not everyone is very confident with dance, so giving them a visual can really help to get the creative mind flowing and a visual can act as a stimulus to create a simple dance move.

Drama 

This weeks drama session was based around a book named “The Tunnel” by Anthony Brown. The book allowed us to explore drama and learn new conventions such as voice in the head, mime, role on the wall, vox pop and thought tracking. I found the convention voice in the head a great tool as the children will be able to step out of the drama, while still in character and discuss how they are feeling through someone elses shoes. It allows the children to think deeper into how others are feeling and not just themselves. As the weeks go on, I feel like I am getting more confident at acting infront of my peers. The class seems like they are enjoying it more and more each week as we are starting to feel comfortable with acting infront of one another as it becomes more enjoyable.

Overall I think it is very important that we allow children to experience experessive arts.