Children with Special Needs
Children with special needs are those that are at risk of physical, developmental, behavioural, and emotional conditions who required health and related services of a type or amount beyond that required by children generally. Issues with special needs children: Inclusion of Children with special needs Provide optimum environment where special equipments or facilities are required [...]
Challenges in Integrating Drama & Music Across Curriculum
Most of the time, teachers of other subjects might approach the music & drama teacher in a surprise and left them defensive. Other subject teachers will want the music and drama teacher to teach certain topic to the students. However, the music & drama teacher doesn’t have any plan for those instead she already got [...]
Semester 2 Ending…
WOW! Time sure flies. Semester 2 is ending really soon! Exam will be on 11th & 12th October. Very fast eh? One semester is only 7 weeks. It’s like just started not too long ago and then now it’s going to end. Done both assignments, passed up one and need to pass up another one [...]
Children with Learning Difficulty
Children with learning difficulty have normal intelligence but hav significant difficulties in the acquisition nd use of language, listening, peaking, reading, writing, reasoning, or mathematical ailities. How to teach them drama and music? Just some examples: Set up pretend environment Give “uncluttered” directions Repeat the activities Provide supportive and accepting environment Encourage and praise over [...]
Music & Movement Activities in Pre-school
Guidelines for music and movement activities in pre-school Be knowledgeable with contents and teaching techniques Pay attention to festivals and annual fests that related closely to your community Choose topic and try to link it with other activities that are being carried out Prepare materials before teaching Understand the abilities and needs of the children. [...]
The Importance of Percussion Band in Pre-school
Pre-school percussion band helps children express their spiritual and physical feelings towards music. Through various music activities, they can gain knowledge, skills, and experience which continue to develop throughout the years. The fact that children feel happy when beating a musical instrument or anything around them make it even more important to have a percussion [...]
Childhood Illness
What is childhood illness? Relates to conditions where is the a marked declining of a child’s health status which is also an indicator of declining nutritional patterns. Most frequent dietary problems in children: Underweight/poor growth/failure to thrive Causes: – Medical reason – Diet too high in fibre or too low in fat – Insufficient vitamins [...]
Teaching Music & Drama to Children
Teachers need theory to teach music and drama to children because: Can describe factors related to the teacher, the children, the family, social, and cultural influences, and class room environment 3 components: instructions, learning processes, learning outcomes Directs teacher in providing sequential experiences for understanding a rhytmic pattern or gain techniques Describe child’s need Demonstrate [...]
Food Safety in Child Care Centre
What is food safety? Food safety deals with the practices and strategies of preventing foodborne illness where it involves proper food purchasing, food storage, handling and cooking. Food Purchasing – only buy good quality, fresh and undamaged food – buy from sources that are inspected for health and sanitation – do not buy expired food [...]
Semester 2 Assignments
OH MY! This term is really heavy! We have four assignments for two subjects. Two given yesterday and two given today. They are pretty heavy type summore. Not like in the first term which is quite OK. We only have four weeks to get all four assignments done. Each asignment is only given 2 weeks [...]
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