The first volume of Wilma Ellersiek's wonderful seasonal gesture games, fingerplays, and songs in the mood of the fifth. A companion to Giving Love, Bringing Joy. This book includes 32 songs and gesture games, inspired by nature and the children themselves, designed to lead teachers, parents and children into joyful participation with nature. Margret Costanini's introduction outlines the educational basis of example and imitation behind this work. Craft directions and a biography of Wilma Ellersiek are also included. There is a companion CD (sold separately) which also includes the songs for the Autumn and Winter book.

Gesture Games for Spring and Summer: Hand Gesture Games, Songs and Movement Games for Children in Kindergarten and the Lower Grades

Ellersiek, Wilma

Children's Books

Waldorf Early Childhood Association North America

It is an older book but still in good condition

A Lifetime of Joy: A Collection of Circle Games, Finger Games, Songs, Verses and Plays for Puppets and Marionettes

Education & Teaching

Bronja Zahlingen

Schools & Teaching

The change in children between roughly six and seven years old is significant, and can be challenging for parents, teachers and educators. This comprehensive book offers a multitude of resources and insights to help with the transformation. It is packed with research, anecdotes, study material, ideas for working in the classroom, examples of age-appropriate stories, verses, games, and much more. Parents, teachers, and therapists -- anyone who lives or works with children who are going through the change of teeth -- will find inspiration, encouragement and insight in this volume.

Your NOT the Boss of Me! Uunderstanding the Six & seven-years-old Transformation

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

A second volume of Wilma Ellersiek's wonderful seasonal gesture games, fingerplays, and songs in the mood of the fifth. This collection completes the cycle of games for the course of the year, following on from 'Gesture Games for Spring and Summer'. Dramatic changes in nature take place in the fall, as the summer's fruit matures and is ready for harvest, the trees change their color and the first frost touches plants and flowers around us. In the moving and touching games of this book we can experience the blowing of the autumn wind, the fog hanging in the air and the earth getting ready for winter. The companion CD (sold separately) also includes songs from the Spring and Summer book.

Gesture Games for Autumn and Winter: Hand Gesture, Song and Movement Games for Children in Kindergarten and the Lower Grades

This is a book of gentle, loving games and songs that incorporate the healing, enlivening qualities of gesture, touch, and movement. It will be an invaluable resource for parents, kindergarten and nursery teachers, homeschoolers, or anyone with an interest in keeping in touch with the kingdom of childhood. These games and lullabies are imbued with the idea that loving contact with children helps them to establish a careful, nurturing relation with plants, animals, people and things in their surroundings, and movement leads them to a keen awareness of their important place in all of it. A companion CD, also called Giving Love, Bringing Joy, is available (sold separately).

Giving Love, Bringing Joy: Hand Gesture Games and Lullabies in the Mood of the Fifth, for Children Between Birth and Nine

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. These are magical, as they transform us into snail, bunny, pony and many other creatures. They lead us to the wellspring of the joy of existence and active participation in the world around us.

Dancing Hand, Trotting Pony: Hand Gesture Games, Songs and Movement Games for Children in Kindergarten and the Lower Grades

The move from kindergarten to school is a significant one. This book, a companion to 'You're Not the Boss of Me: Understanding the Six/Seven-Year-Old Transformation', is a collection of essential research and resources to help educators prepare children for starting school. Experienced teachers, doctors and therapists give guidance in the nature and needs of the child between six and seven, how to observe children for signs of readiness, and creating and carrying a healthy transition from kindergarten to grade school. It includes four different sample observation forms, to help schools to develop their own readiness observation procedures.

First Grade Readiness: Resources, Insights and Tools for Waldorf Educators

Nancy Blanning

This audio CD accompanies the book 'A Day Full of Song' for use in kindergartens. All 42 songs from the book, in vocal and instrumental versions. This CD is intended as an aid to learning the songs rather than as a 'listening' CD for children.

A Day Full of Song: Companion CD

This is an audio CD to accompany the song book 'Giving Love, Bringing Joy: Hand Gesture Games and Lullabies'. Including 15 songs, the CD is intended as a learning CD for teachers and parents, rather than a 'listening' CD for children.

Giving Love, Bringing Joy: A Learning CD

The move from kindergarten to school is a significant one. This book, a companion to 'You're Not the Boss of Me: Understanding the Six/Seven-Year-Old Transformation', is a collection of essential research and resources to help educators prepare children for starting school. Experienced teachers, doctors and therapists give guidance in the nature and needs of the child between six and seven, how to observe children for signs of readiness, and creating and carrying a healthy transition from kindergarten to grade school. It includes four different sample observation forms, to help schools to develop their own readiness observation procedures.

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Books by Waldorf Early Childhood Association North America

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Gesture Games for Spring and Summer: Hand Gesture Games, Songs and Movement Games for Children in Kindergarten and the Lower Grades

A Lifetime of Joy: A Collection of Circle Games, Finger Games, Songs, Verses and Plays for Puppets and Marionettes

Your NOT the Boss of Me! Uunderstanding the Six & seven-years-old Transformation

Gesture Games for Autumn and Winter: Hand Gesture, Song and Movement Games for Children in Kindergarten and the Lower Grades

Giving Love, Bringing Joy: Hand Gesture Games and Lullabies in the Mood of the Fifth, for Children Between Birth and Nine

Dancing Hand, Trotting Pony: Hand Gesture Games, Songs and Movement Games for Children in Kindergarten and the Lower Grades

First Grade Readiness: Resources, Insights and Tools for Waldorf Educators

A Day Full of Song: Companion CD

Giving Love, Bringing Joy: A Learning CD

First Grade Readiness: Resources, Insights and Tools for Waldorf Educators