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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.

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).

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.

Through this collection of inspiring games, Wilma Ellersiek introduces young children (up to age seven) to a world where beings large and small roam, from pixies to giants. She helps the children to connect with nature and learn about the elements of air, water, earth and fire. The games, ideal for use in kindergarten, include clear instructions, music, and black-and-white illustrations showing the shape of the hand movements to make it easy for parents and teachers to follow.Games featured include Noll the Troll Is Resting, Elves Dance in the Moonlight, The Wind Blows Through the Trees and The Hobgoblin Dance. The last of Wilma Ellersiek's popular gesture games books, this is a delightful resource for parents and teachers.