Sandra Ford

| Northeast MS Community College

Course Name: CREATIVE ARTS FOR YOUNG CHILDREN CDT 1314

Instructor:

Sandra S. Ford

Office: Waller 110

Office Hours: 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. MWF

1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. TTH

Phone: (662)720-7214

Email: ssford@nemcc.edu

Course Description: Planning and developing creative arts experiences for children birth to age eight. Lab activities with the children are implemented during the assigned periods.

Credit: 4 hours (3 hours lecture and 2 hours laboratory participation)

Textbooks:

ART (9 weeks)

MUSIC (9 weeks)

Objectives: The student will be able to:

Discuss the stages of art and music development in young children.

Identify the characteristics of each stage of development.
Differentiate between developmentally appropriate and inappropriate art and music tools, materials, and equipment at each stage of development for the young child.
Plan and implement developmentally appropriate art and music experiences at each stage of development for the young child.

Identify ways teachers promote creativity in young children.

Describe a classroom environment that provides opportunities for selecting and using materials that promote individual expression.
Apply strategies and techniques for designing visual teaching aids such as bulletin boards, posters, graphs, etc.
Integrate all areas of development (i.e., social, emotional, cognitive, physical, and language) into creative art experiences.

Teaching Methods: Lecture, class discussions, student projects/presentations, hand-out sheets, guest speakers, videos, and demonstrations.

Course Requirements:

The new NEMCC Attendance/Withdrawal/Cut Out Policy is attached. Please read the document thoroughly! Those policies will be followed. Refer to the course syllabus for special projects information and assignments.

CDT 1314 CREATIVE ARTS FOR YOUNG CHILDREN

MUSIC AND MOVEMENT SECTION SCHEDULE

WEEK CLASS ASSIGNMENTS

Overview of Music and Movement objectives, assignments, and special projects. Planning music and movement creative activities and how to present a song to children in a group setting will be discussed. Students will teach a favorite preschool song to the class. Students will bring a new song they have learned from the Center and share it with the class, too.

2. Music and developmental characteristics of children from infancy to school age (6 years). Review of Internet and library sources for movement and musical activities. Students will bring examples of songs from the Internet and from library resources to the class.

Songs about:

Transportation; Body Parts; Counting; Silly Songs

Students will present assigned sections to the class

Songs about:

Wild Animals (Zoo/Jungle), Myself and Family, Weather/Seasons, Food

5. Songs about holidays:

(1)Christmas, Easter, (2)Halloween, Thanksgiving and others ((3)Valentine’s Day; birthdays of MLK, George Washington, And Abraham Lincoln; (4)St. Patrick’s day; Independence Day; Mother’s Day, Father’s Day; etc.)

Songs about:

Farm animals; Community Helpers; Health; Family Pets

Songs about:

Shapes; Colors; Creepy Crawly Songs; Action Songs

Activities to include:

Parachute Play

Rhythm Instruments

Transition Times

Finger Plays and Creative Movements

FINAL EXAM

SPECIAL NOTES

SONGS THAT ARE PRESENTED BY THE STUDENT IN THE CLASS AND/OR CHILD CARE CENTER ARE TO BE MEMORIZED.

ART SECTION SCHEDULE

WEEK CLASS ASSIGNMENTS

Overview of Art objectives, assignments, and special projects. Read pages 1-8 in text. Find examples of 10 bulletin board ideas that you would like to make, copy them, and turn them in to Mrs. Ford. (The “Mailbox” magazine and books in the library are good sources.)

Student brings in 3 examples of different ages of young (2 to 8 years) children’s art.

Painting Activities:

tempera paint

water colors

others

4. Crayons Activities

Collage and Sculpture

Modeling Mixtures

Chalk/Printing Activities

Holiday Fun/Final Exam

SPECIAL PROJECTS

MUSIC

Each student will be assigned a music topic for each week. The student will be responsible for finding 5 songs on the assigned topic other than the textbook. The five songs will be typed and include the source, copyright date, author, page number and publisher. At least 3 to 5 different sources are to be used each week for the selected songs. Each song should be typed and double-spaced between verses or lines as necessary. This space can be used to list instructions, if needed. The student is responsible for giving Mrs. Ford a copy of her five songs on the assigned topic each week.

Each student will be responsible each week for the songs in her section. She will also be responsible for presenting the songs in class as well as the lab with the children in the Child Care Center.

The final will consist of a 12-15 minute music time on an assigned topic to be presented during the last two weeks of the semester. A written lesson plan that will include the following is to be used:

Musical Topic

Musical Objectives

Materials Needed

Procedure:

includes the words to all songs (finger plays, too) and directions as needed.
includes a step-by-step explanation of how each song is introduced and presented
detailed order of songs
include visuals and other ways that you will interest the children in the songs.

The student will present one student-made visual to be used with one song or musical activity. The visual is to be approved by Mrs. Ford before the student makes it.

ART

The student is responsible for participating in all class activities and for presenting all assigned art activities on the assigned dates. Students will also present art activities to small groups of children in the Child Care Center as assigned.

2. The student will be responsible for turning in her art activities that she makes in the

class to Mrs. Ford at the next class meeting. Each activity is to be labeled to

include the name of the student in the upper left hand corner as well as the name of

the activity. The activities will be returned and the student will assemble an art

notebook that includes the typed directions for the art activity as well as the example.
The notebook is to be divided into different sections, which should be tabbed, as listed

on the course syllabus. Most of the directions can be found in the textbook. At the end of the art section, the notebook will receive a major grade.

3. The student will be responsible for making an assigned bulletin board for the Child Care
Center.

4. The final will consist of the student presenting an art activity to the children in the Child
Care Center. Mrs. Ford must approve the selected activity and a lesson plan is to be
written and followed.

SPECIAL NOTES

STUDENTS MAY NOT USE SUPPLIES FROM THE CENTER UNLESS GIVEN SPECIAL PERMISSION FROM MRS. FORD.

STUDENTS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR OWN SCISSORS, GLUE, MARKERS, CONSTRUCTION PAPER, ETC.

GRADING

The final grade will be based upon averaging the two nine weeks averages. There will be one final at nine weeks for one area and the other at the end of the semester for the other area.

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Example of Resource Song

COUNTING

COUNT TO THREE

(Sung to: “Mary Had a Little Lamb”)

Lightly tap your foot two times,

Foot two times, foot two times,

Lightly tap your foot two times,

Now let’s count to three.

One, two, three, let’s all sit down,

All sit down, all sit down,

One, two, three, let’s all sit down,

Gently on the ground.

(Do actions as described in verses.)

PIGGYBACK SONGS, 1983

Compiled by Jean Warren

Gryphon House, Inc., pg. 48