Dancing Hand, Trotting Pony
Hand Gesture Games, Songs and Movement Games for Children in Kindergarten and the Lower Grades
$79.31
- Paperback
164 pages
- Release Date
28 February 2020
Summary
Children love these games for the pure joy of movement. In their dancing rhythms adults, also, will find that the active involvement of the hands with the tongue revives the whole human being.
In a series of happy games for the dancing, playing hand the movements of hands, fists, thumbs and pointers fit to the spoken word in poetry and song. They stimulate the speech center in the child’s brain and promote speech development.
A second group of games portrays animal games.…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781936849413 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1936849410 |
| Author: | Wilma Ellersiek, Lyn and Kundry Willwerth |
| Publisher: | Waldorf Early Childhood Association North America |
| Imprint: | Waldorf Early Childhood Association North America |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 164 |
| Release Date: | 28 February 2020 |
| Weight: | 437g |
| Dimensions: | 225mm x 281mm |
Wilma Ellersiek
Wilma Ellersiek, born in 1921, was a teacher of music, movement and speech at the Stuttgart Music Academy, as well as a stage director of opera and drama. Her research into the effects of rhythm, movement and language on the young child led to the development of the first gesture games. After she retired from the Academy, she created many more of these games, which are interconnected play-units woven of rhyme, rhythm and music. Kundry Willwerth was a Waldorf kindergarten teacher for over 30 years. For the last 20 years she has devoted herself, together with her husband Lyn, to translating Wilma Ellersiek’s books, playing the games with children in her care and presenting workshops throughout North America and internationally. She is also the founder and artistic director of Magic Garden Puppets, a marionette theatre company in central New York state.
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