Reflection #5- Teaching and Integrating Visual Arts

It was so fun to see all the different types of children's illustrators and be able to particpate in related projects with them. We got to see how each of them interpret the visual aspects of the design from how they space objects and even how they display them through border designs, to shapes and patterns, to magnetic art. The illustrator that my group chose was Lois Ehlert, I love the rich colors of her books and how they are incorporated into the books as a voice within themselves. In the artwork, it was the magentic art that sort of drew me to it by how detailed, yet simple the project was, especially the part with using a lightbulb.

Reflection #4- Music Integration in the Classroom

I definitely thought it was interesting watching all of groups presenting and seeing the different perspectives on integrating not only music but dance as well. It had made it more fun when deciding on an idea ourselves on how to combine music and dance in a lesson plan. We had several ideas to chose from; one of our first ideas was to roll cubes (dice) with one pertaining to dance and the other relating to music and having them kind of decide how to integrate those ideas in a motion/sound. But in trying to decide how to really teach a lesson in 10 minutes and impletment music/dance, we got an idea from Sarah's husband who is a teacher himself. With each lesson, he sings about math, social studies, science, etc. It really brought a different aspect to what we were able to present.

In watching the different groups, I have some ideas I want to steal for myself in my classroom. The Tahition dancing with the poles I can see students really getting into in; the boys being dare devils and the girls squealing. Then learning the meaning behind the dance, it shows them aspects of different cultures in a whole new way instead of just reading about it.