Journal 10

This week we continued discussing the topic of creativity in the classroom. We reviewed some of the activities we did in the past and also learned new activities that we could incorporate into our classrooms. We did a new activity this week that showed us how students can use their creativity. We read the book The Listening Walk by Paul Showers. Each student was giving an object and they had to come up with a sound that represents that object. A student was assigned to read the book while the other students made their assigned object noise. This would give students the opportunity to be creative with their different noises they wished to make. Reading this story gave every student the opportunity to participate. We also did another activity that took a childrens song and incorporated that into the story that was read. The teacher took the melody to the song and changed the words to some of the words in the book. This helps make the stories more interesting and gives the students the opportunity to not only listen to the story but to participate as well. The activities we learned this week showed us how to incorporate music into storytelling and also use the students creativity. Students can use their creative in any story that is told. This will help the students ideas to be used but also a learning experience for the students as well.
Student learning is enhanced in activities like this because the teacher presents the students with a problem that needs to be solved. In the case of The listening walk, the teacher present the students with objects and the students had to come up with an appropriate sound that corresponds with that object. Student learning gives students the opportunity to incorporate their ideas with the problem the teacher presents. Student learning also brings out the creativity in the students as for they have to come up with different ideas. Student learning is a great way to create a lesson which would really bring out the creativity in your students.
We also used our recorders this week. We learned the E note and combined that to play a nice melody with other notes we learned.