Presentation About School

Performance
Name: Aisha Ali Alowais
Course: Learning Through Performance Arts ECE 2603
Instructor: Antoinette Wiseman
Due Date: April 29th 2017
 CLO:-
Students will learn and implement a new dance to perform on the Mothers Day

Celebration.

Students will express their love for their mothers through Music and Movement.
 Introduction

The performance arts lesson took place in Al Wahda Private School

The students were in KG-1 / Age group 4-5

Classroom has 2 Special Educational needs (SEN) students, and an

average of 20 students
 The dance was to be performed during The Mothers Day Celebration.

Explored through the media of Music and Movement.

Performance duration 2-3 Minutes/ Lesson duration 15 Minutes daily

(teaching the dance).
 Aims
The students will perform on The Mothers Day Celebration.

The students will learn to express themselves and their emotions through dance. (Creative Exploration)

The students will work on their spatial awareness, relationship awareness, and social skills.
 Theme of The Lesson

The theme of the lesson was I Love My Mommy for The Mothers Day
Celebration.

The date of the performance: March 8th 2017

Development: Music & Movement, Spatial Awareness, Fine-Gross Motor Skills, and
Social Skills.
 Process

I was informed that I needed to implement a dance after we decide on a song for the
mothers day dance just a week and a half before the performance day.

I implemented a dance overnight then showed it to my MST the next morning.

We started memorizing the song lyrics with the students first then slowly taught them
the dance. The only resources were the song, smartboard computer, and speakers.
 Aspects Explored

Drama Music Movement

The students expressed their Students listen to the Spatial Awareness

feelings to their mothers different tones and beats.

Fine-Gross Motor Skills
through a dance. Students move according to
Social Skills
The students acted together the sounds they hear.

as a group to display a Students learn the rhythm of Express themselves

through dance.
heartwarming performance. the music and the words
(lyrics that go along with it.)
 Anecdote

On the Mothers Day Celebration day I arrived early to practice with the students,
only to have my MST state that she forgot parts of the dance so she changed it whilst
I was attending in the university and over the weekend. I learned the new dance
from her and allowed the students to eat first then practiced with them minutes
before the performance. I could see that some of the students were slightly lost
during the performance but I stood in the back and danced along with them to remind
them of the dance.
 THE SCRIPT:
The Teachers Role: The Role of the children Comments:
(What the teacher does): (What the children do/say):
The children plays the students the song and explains The students understand the lyrics and start to The song uses simple
each lyric to the students and asks them to sing along sing along. sentences and is easy to
verse by verse. remember as verse one
is almost identical to
verse two.
After the students memorize the song the teacher shows The students watch the teacher model the dance, The dance is simple,
the whole dance to the students so that they are familiar, then start to follow directions given. The but was changed by
then starts to teach the dance step by step. For example; students answer the question (Mommy) and MST to a more complex
When you say I point to yourselves, then lets make a follow the movement of the teacher whilst dance. I would try and
heart over our he0ads this is for the Love so lets see I singing along. communicate more with
Love (Does dance), what comes next? Okay so you point at my MST in the future.
your mother in the crowd! Lets try it all together again.
After learning the dance the teacher will play it from the The students will perform the dance they The students were
beginning and have the students sing and dance along to it learned in class then practice to dance again on excited for the Mothers
with her modeling in front of them, when the students are the Mothers Day Celebration. Day Celebration so they
ready the teacher will stop dancing and see how they could barely focus
perform it on their own. The teacher will encourage the during the last dance
students and reward them with stickers, and practice the practice.
day of the mothers day dance before the performance.
General Evaluation of the Performance:
The performance wasnt as good as I expected it to be, because we barely had time to practice given a week and a half. Also with
the students being shy and confused with the dance change they started to either stand still or look around for guidance which is
why I danced at the back.
 Suggestions
I would have created a simple dance that students can easily remember and keep up with.

For future reference I would have recorded the first dance practice so that the MST and I look back at
for help.

I wasnt at the first rehearsal they had because my MST asked me to stay behind with the assistant and
work on the gifts for the mothers, so I wish I could have seen that and realized that there were many

shy students that didn't do well when all eyes were on them.
Photographic Evidence
Performance Arts Mothers Day Performance

("I Love My Mommy | Mother's Day Song for Kids | Happy Mothers Day Song | The Kiboomers", 2014)
 Comparing and Contrasting
Maria Montessori Loris Malaguzzi
(The Montessori Method) (The Reggio Emelia Approach)

(Irinyi, & Irinyi, 2013)

 Comparing and Contrasting ideologists
(Maria Montessori and Loris Malaguzzi)
Comparing Contrasting
Both ideologists believe children to Dr. Montessori believes that children from all over
the world can learn the same way, whilst Loris
be resourceful, born with a great believes that teachers should adapt their way of
capacity to learn, and independent. teaching to the culture of the students.
Both ideologists believed that the Montessori believes in strict developmental stages,
environment is a critical factor in but Loris believes that stages are too limiting.
learning. Montessoris theory is constructivist as she believes
that students learn through the environment around
Both ideologists have a schools and a them and what they make of it, whilst Loriss
school curriculum. theory is socio-cultural, as he believes that students
learn through the relationship with the environment
and others.
(Irinyi, & Irinyi, 2013) (Hall, 2010) ("Constructivism as a Paradigm for Teaching and Learning", 2004)
("Comparing Preschool Philosophies: Montessori, Waldorf and More", 2013) (Carinci, & Lewin-Benham, 2010)
 Comparing and Contrasting Ideologies
(Montessori Method and Reggio Approach)
Compare Contrast
Both ideologies can be taught in a Montessori uses observation to study students and
record their progress, whilst the Reggio Emelia teachers
preschool setting. document all the students academic and social progress.
Both ideologies encourage students Montessori encourages individual work where the
to explore further and to push student is free to explore without help with in-put error
forward in learning. activities, whilst Reggio Emelia prefers small group
where the students can learn by the help of one another
Both ideologies encourage self and their environment.
expression and different thinking In a Montessori classroom the teacher is a link between
skills. between the children and the environment, whilst in the
Reggio Emelia classroom the teacher is a co-learner.

(Irinyi, & Irinyi, 2013) (Hall, 2010) (Carinci, & Lewin-Benham, 2010)
("Comparing Preschool Philosophies: Montessori, Waldorf and More", 2013)
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