Rhythmic Action Plays and Dances: A Book of Original Games and Dances, Arranged Progressively, to Mother Goose and Other Action Songs, with a Teaching ... Playground and Gymnasium (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Irene E. Phillips Moses

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ISBN 10 : 1330031261 ISBN 13 : 9781330031261

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Physical Education in common with all other branches of the curriculum has been undergoing important changes with the adaptation of modern theories to the teaching of young children. Games andF olk Dances have come to occupy a well merited place in the childs education. Their successful use is largely the result of their strong universal appeal to the child in contra.st to the rather remote interest stimulated by formal gymnastics. Under these circumstances Games andR hythmic Action Plays are found to give a maximum of educational and recreative physical exercise. In arranging these simple games and dances the author has first of all endeavored to select such songs and actions as will give pleasure to the little children who play them. Should this aim in some measure be accomplished, the chief mission of the book will have been fulfilled. However, it has been hoped that the rhythms may bear some significance from an educational point of view by furnishing a drill and training which in a pleasurable manner will prepare the small child for the more advanced Folk Dances. While the more simple Folk Dances are easily within the ability of children of the Kindergarten age, their teaching involves a more or less irksome drill on the mechanism of the steps and the evolutions of the dances. By means of a carefully arranged preliminary training this rather tedious period of acquiring the necessary co-ordination can be made one of great pleasure to the children and comparatively easy teaching for the teacher. It is believed that the time spent on these simple games and rhythms will later prove very profitable. These little rhythmic Action Plays are presented to the public with the hope 1. That the small dancers, after having enjoyed these plays, will go on with spontaneous joy into the more advanced work, finding the transition to Folk and A esthetic Dancing a natural
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330031261
• ISBN 13: 9781330031261
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 182
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