, Grade R Life Skills: Music, Dance
& Drama
GRL1501 ASSIGNMENT 4
QUESTION 1 [20]
1.1. List three benefits of music in early childhood development contexts. (3)
1.2 For each musical concept below, design a simple activity to support Grade R
learners’ understanding of the concept. (9)
• Beat
• Dynamics
• Pitch
1.3 Should dance movements be choreographed or unchoreographed in Grade R?
Provide two reasons to support your answer. (4)
1.4 Recommend four open-ended questions that teachers can ask learners after a
drama lesson to support language development through reflection. (4)
1.1 The following are three advantages of music for the development of young children: -
Worked on mental abilities: Music can assist with creating language and math
abilities, further develop memory and critical abilities to think, and upgrade
imagination. - Emotional development: Children can learn to control their emotions,
express them, and develop empathy and social skills through music. - Actual turn of
events: Music can assist with growing fine and gross coordinated movements,
coordination, and mood
. 1.2 Exercises to help Grade R's comprehension students might interpret melodic ideas:
- Beat: Have the understudies applaud or walk to a consistent beat while paying
attention to a tune. Encourage them to keep up with the beat and feel the beat. -
Dynamics: Play a song with loud and soft dynamics and ask students to move in
different ways to match the dynamics (for example, jump high on loud parts and crouch
down on soft parts). - Pitch: Play various notes on a console or another instrument and
have the understudies sing those notes back to you. You can likewise have them sort
instruments by high and low pitch. By participating in these exercises, Grade R students
can foster a superior comprehension of the melodic ideas of beat, elements, and pitch.
1.3 I accept that dance developments in Grade R ought to be arranged for the
accompanying reasons: - Arranged developments can assist youngsters with creating
coordination and coordinated abilities as they learn explicit advances and groupings.
Children's confidence can be boosted by practicing and mastering choreographed
routines, which in turn gives them a sense of accomplishment.
1.4 Following a drama lesson, teachers can support language development through
reflection by asking students four open-ended questions: - What was your main thing
from the present show movement and why? - In the drama class, what feelings did you
explore or portray? - How did functioning in a gathering help you during the show
action? - Might you at any point consider ways you can utilize what you realized in the
present show example in your regular daily existence? [20] QUESTION 2 2.1 Make
sense of the five key parts that ought to be available in a decent music illustration plan.
(10) 2.2 Arrangement an illustration to show an activity melody in Grade R students. Any
theme is up to you. Utilize the study guide's template, which can be found on page 145.
(10) 2.1 1. Goals: Obviously characterized learning targets that state what understudies
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