I took a creative movement class for elementary students my first semester in college and absolutely loved it. I had taken dance classes before, but being able to see a different side of things and seeing that children can learn and retain the information by moving about was incredible. It is definitely something that I want to try and integrate into my classroom.
In the reading, I liked reading all the different types of activities that were suggested for all types of curriculum and to help children feel more comfortable.
It is important to have children's dance/creative movement because it allows the children to experess themselves through movement without having any set choreography. It allows them to excercise and have fun without perhaps realizing that they are doing more things at once (dancing, excercising and learning).
I am not sure if I have really gained any philosophical knowledge about this week so far, but as for pratical knowledge there were a few points; like I mentioned above about expressing themselves and excercising. Children love to move and we should encourage it, not inhibit it.
Next week in class we are to present our own creative movement lesson for the upper grades. And the suggested topic is to try and find a social studies book to create our lesson. By doing this we can see what it takes to come up with a lesson to have children learn about history etc. As for field, if we get lucky and pick a topic that the field classroom is learning at that particular time then we are set and can try it, but if not, at least we will have some ideas and could shape another lesson around the topic they are currently learning.
I would need to be able to understand the importance of movement (which I believe I have already) in order to bring movement like this into the classroom. The movement and how in depth the teacher goes is based on the class and what the teacher feels they are prepared for. So I will need to work on how to be able to judge that.
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