By balancing research coverage and theory with applied practice, Music and Movement: A Way of Life for the Young Child, Seventh Edition,gives the most comprehensive and current treatment to the topic of music and movement while encouraging teachers to not only inspire young children to move with music but be inspired themselves to join our youngest musicians and dancers in the fun.
Learning Through Movement and Music: Exercise Your Smarts teaches students health and fitness concepts through song lyrics and other means as they move to music provided on a DVD.
Presenting hundreds of ideas, this all-in-one book is divided into six sections: “Art” spotlights titles that are natural hooks for art or craft activities alongside ideas on how to create art just like the character in the story, while ...
Awareness of body parts and whole --Awareness of time --Awareness of space --Awareness of levels --Awareness of weight --Awareness of locomotion --Awareness of flow --Awareness of shape --Awareness of others --Student created movement.
The text is the only one of its kind to teach movement's role in traditional child development areas--physical, affective, and cognitive--as well as to detail musical and creative development.
The guiding principles throughout the book focus on meeting individual needs, reciprocating environment and curriculum, integrating movement and music, involving family and community, and getting guidance through assessment and standards.
Children's librarians and educators will be delighted to learn that anyone can lead a movement and music storytime, regardless of their level of experience with music or movement, with this book in hand.
Hap Palmer, creator of the most popular early childhood record series in the country, has put together this wonderful collection of 100 of his most delightful songs.
There is no better way to share the love of God with children than doing the things that kids love best--moving, singing, and making noise!
This volume provides a comprehensive overview of research in music cognition, balancing accessibility with depth and sophistication.
Author Mariusz Kozak describes musical time as something that emerges when the listener enacts her implicit knowledge about "how music goes," from deliberate inactivity, to such simple actions as tapping her foot in time with the beat, to ...