Week 4: Programming Music and Visual Arts

23th July 2018

During this week we looked at the important aspect of Music and Visual Arts in Primary Education. Also, we’ve covered the curriculum integration, the role of music in learning, the importance of drawing and briefly about OGER.

Music: (Note from tutorial 4)

• Music is taught as an individual art form

• Music can often appear within other artforms. E.g. Dance and Drama.

• Music can involve in other KLAs

• Music and extra-curricular

Activity 1: Singing

Before we went on and sang, we did a voice warm up from range of low to high. Then, we sang a song.

Afterward, as a group we made our own song and we perform it to the whole class.

A few other we did:

• Exploring the different kind of music genre

• We tried to count the music note

Visual Arts

Why drawing is so important?

As a whole class, we discussed the importance of drawing. The following mention are directly taken from the class discussion:

• Drawing is a pleasure

• Enhance imagination

• Develops kid’s problem-solving skills

• Help kids ready for school

• Makes children more expressive

• Develop conversations about art

We’ve also explored colours and their association with different emotions.

White: purity, innocence, cleanliness, sense of space,

Black: authority, power, strength, evil, intelligence,

Orange: happy, energetic, excitement, enthusiasm, warmth, wealth, prosperity

Yellow: happiness, laughter, cheery, warmth, optimism, hunger, intensity,

Green: natural, cool, growth, money, health, envy, harmony, calmness, fertility

Blue: calmness, serenity, cold, uncaring, wisdom, loyalty,

Purple: royalty, wealth, sophistication, wisdom, exotic, spiritual,

Brown: reliability, stability, friendship, sadness, warmth, comfort, security, natural,

Pink: romance, love, gentle, calming, agitation

Activity 2: Drawing using colouring

We used different colours, shapes and sizes to express our emotion, feeling and mood. (I forgot to take a picture of it).

Reflection:

• Out group did very well composing a song. It was fun to sang along with other people.

• The Visual Arts part was the highlight of the day: it was fun, engaging and meaningful.

• Two things I learned in this tutorial: Music is a very useful tool for enhancing learning; drawing is very important in the stages of kids development

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