A song/play web
Strong sense of identity.
A child's sense of identity and belonging is ignited when their thoughts and opinions matter and shared within the class.
Play song: If You're Happy and You Know It and watch the YouTube clip
Strong Sense of Wellbeing: Children's resilience helps them to regulate and balance their emotions to cope with day to day stresses & challenges. Discuss emotions along with the song
Connection to emotions and feeelings: this lesson will provoke emotions children will learn to identify emotions through music & song
Involved and confident learners: children learn how to learn and they develop dispostions for learning and a sense of agency
Children will learn the element -
Timbre with a very familiar song. Clapping their hands and using their voices
Language and Literacy development through reading books about feelings
Stimulate children's creative awareness through books
Connects to otther parts of the curriculum such as reading and early writing skills
Based on the Orff method
'The connection between the body, thought and emotion is what makes the arts a highly important component of young children's education' (Wright 2012, p. 5).
References
Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (DEECD) 2011, Victorian early years learning and development framework DEECD, Melbourne, Victoria.
If you’re Happy and you Know It and More/100 minute Nursey Rhyme Compilation from Kidscamp, 2014, Kidscamp, retreived 27 January, 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBuMCGlxJQE
Wright, S 2012, Children, Meaning-Making and the Arts, Pearson Australia, Frenchs Forest NSW.