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Packed full of exciting ideas and powerful visual aids, this book offers field-tested activities to help practitioners encourage and nurture young children’s creativity and imagination.
Starting from Movement and Dance
Starting from Movement and Dance
This chapter will give you ideas of ways to develop movement and dance activities by:
- Highlighting the importance of movement and dance in the early years.
- Offering practical solutions to common concerns.
- Illustrating two dance activities each leading into an exploration of visual art and music.
Movement and dance is an activity that all young children naturally engage in as they play Watch children, for example, in the role play area, in the book area or outside and you will notice a wide range of very individual and purposeful movements/dances taking place. Movement and dance are put together here because they are so inter-related that a sequence of movements could be called a dance.
Our role as practitioners is to build ...
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