"Learning through play is a critical element for young children to develop key skills in language, emotion, creativity, and social interaction. It pulls together the logical and creative areas of the brain." ~Maria Montessori & Lev Vygotsky
SJC Henderson Fine Arts Center Room 9008
Show video of babies communicating with mothers
Hello song me allegro de verte come va’
Warm-up
Scarves
Alligator puppets-
Rhythm tonal
Tonal relay so la so mi
Patterns weikart
LABAN movement across the room
Take Five bean bags
Here’s my Rhythm now feel my beat
I got a letter this morning
Consonant Story Relay
Grandma Bear-adapt to A snow boy
Ordinary Claspies
Orange Juice
End seven Jumps
Play is the cornerstone of human development and storytelling is our technology.
The beauty and honor of working with children is that you are attuned to your own "inner truth as well as a willingness to live in the child's own world as a participant observer" (p. 76).
Leue, M. Learning flows naturally. (1993). In John Taylor Gatto, (Ed.). The exhausted school: The first national grassroots speakout on the right to school choice, pp. 75-80. New York: Oxford Village Press (Odysseus Group Imprint).
Language & music through play. Olay!