Connie Bergstein Dow – författare

An award-winning alphabet book that encourages playful movement and learning.“Skate along the Ice for I! For J we Jam and Jive. K’s for Kicking as you swim and float and splash and dive.”Watch the alphabet come to life as children run and twirl and jump and play and learn their way through the ABCs! Combining movement and learning, this imaginative alphabet book teaches young learners not only how to move from A to Z but also how to creatively have fun as they stay active and keep their bodies healthy and strong.The book includes a special section for parents and educators with tips for using movement to teach problem-solving, listening, and other social and emotional skills.

Young children play and learn together with lively dance chants. Tap and Rap, Move and Groove brings movement into homes and early childhood classrooms with rhythmic chants for children to move and dance to. Designed to link movement, language, and rhythm, the chants are for children and adults to do together, saying the words while performing the movement prompts.Step and clap, step and clap,As we do our waving rap!Wave your arms, way up high.Reach your fingers to the sky.Woven throughout Tap and Rap, Move and Groove are many opportunities for children to contribute their own ideas and explore movement possibilities, nurturing creative thinking, problem-solving, and self-expression. Dance chants also provide language benefits, as children incorporate new vocabulary, recognize rhythm, repeat the sequence of words and movements, and learn how the chants partner with specific movements.No music is required for the dance chants, but it can be added. Tap and Rap, Move and Groove includes information for adults who want to enhance and expand the dance activities with music, props, varied words, and movements.