movement education

Collection of ten movement stories for teachers, day care providers, parents, and other adults to use in encouraging children to explore, experiment, and create through movement and to help them develop physical, cognitive, social, and emotional skills.

An illustrated collection of poems for children about various body parts and how everyday things move.

Argues that movement activities play an integral role in the learning process, and offers practical suggestions on how teachers can integrate various movement activities into the classroom curriculum.

On t.p.: Introducing poetry to children through listening, singing, chanting, impromptu choral reading, body movement, dance, and dramatization. Including 98 favorite songs and poems.

Offers dozens of interactive, ready-to-use, age-appropriate story-based activities designed to get children from birth to age fourteen involved in active learning.

Draws from the many dance disciplines taught at The Ailey School to create a program to help improve posture, increase strength, stamina, flexibility, and muscle tone, relieve aches and pains, and support relaxation and well-being.

Contains instructions for thirty-six physical activities, games, and relays for first grade students.