Kelsey Collins

EDT 317

Lucy Salgado

29 April 2019

Art Movement Lesson Reflection

The lesson that I chose to implement in my placement classroom, was my movement

lesson. I chose this lesson because I felt it was a strong lesson sketch, and the students in my

classroom have lots of energy, this was a controlled method to allow them to get some of their

energy out. The lesson was Red Light! Green Light! Animal edition, where student would play

the game Red Light! Green Light! and act as animals as they moved.

There were multiple aspects of my lesson that went as I planned, but of course there

were also multiple aspects that did not go as I had planned. The children were able to think of

animals, create movements that corresponded with each animal and stay engaged throughout

the activity. However, none of the students stayed within their square as I had hoped. The

students were extremely excited as I began the lesson and were very willing to listen and

provide responses to questions. I was amazed with all of the creative animals that the students

were able to come up with, even though they did not know what the animals would be used for.

I was surprised how easily the students were able to come up with different movements ideas

for all the animals that were called out. I always gave them a few seconds to think of a way to

move because some of the animals were not something students usually imitate. The aspect

that surprised me is that the students did not stay in their assigned square at all. I explained

before the activity that they needed to stay in their squares and reminded them multiple times
throughout the activity to stay in their square, but none of them did. I think this happened

because they don’t have very much experience with being required to stay inside of a limited

space and because of this didn’t really know what to do, so they just moved around the

carpeted area as they pleased.

There are multiple things that I would change about this lesson now that I have

implemented it. First, I would have students broken down into smaller groups. I broke the class

into two groups of about eight students per group, but this was still too many students moving

around a small area at one time. Another thing that I would change is setting expectations for

volume during the activity. Many of the student were yelling which caused it to be hard to get

their attention for when I yelled red light. I should have set an expectation that they would use

inside voices during the activity to help with volume in the class as well as their ability to hear

me. The final thing that I would change, and as I went through the activity, is the number of

animals the students imitated. I planned for students to imitate all ten of the animals they

listed, but as I was implementing I realized that would be too many and would take up too much

time, so for the first group I only had them imitate five of the animals which I chose at random.

For the second group I only had them name five animals, that way there would not be any

animals that they name that they did not get to imitate.

The most important thing I learned from this activity is that it is all right to change the

activity as you go through it. I noticed that one aspect of the activity was not working and was

able to change that in the moment as I moved to the next group. Things don’t always go as

planned, but as teachers we need to be flexible to meet the need of our students.
 In our classroom, none of the students are on IEP’s and need specific modifications, so I

did not have to have to make major modifications to the lesson. The modification I made is I

placed students that I thought would wither need more help or more supervision during the

activity closest to me. This way I could easily monitor and assist as the students need it.