Journal 9

This week im Music 373, we did more child creativity learning.  First, we made our own sound effects from a story being told.  Second, we sang a song repeatedly based off an older and more adult-like song.  Then I just gained some personal knowledge, such as reading to a classroom.  This is basically what we did this week in class.

On Monday, I read to the class a book called "The Listening Walk."  Ms. Wang had us all make our own sound effect to the words she wanted us to describe which, if you put yourself in a child's perspective, helps them learn a lot in creativity.  This also is very helpful in keeping the children active and interested in what is being read.  This increases the children's imagination as well in thinking about how the sounds relate to the objects in real life.  This is what we learned from class on Monday.

On Wednesday, we sang the song, "What Do We Do with the Drunken Sailors" and applied the same rhythm to the book, "What Shall We Do with the Boo-Hoo Baby?"  The children would learn a lot about animal sounds from this book.  They also learn about a baby as well from reading this story.  They learn something from the singing, I can't remember what exactly Ms. Wang said in class though.  I don't remember as well how this relates to "Student-centered" learning.  This is what we did on Wednesday afternoon.

I overall got a lot of knowledge from class this week.  I never got the chance to practice reading a story to an entire class until this week and now know how it is like to read in front of a class.  Learning a child's perspective from story-telling is very good to know as well; you can tell if they understood and you taught the meanings right.  Then we just really learned a new note on our recorder and about our 2 projects we have to start working on.  This is what I learned this week in Music 373.