Giving Love, Bringing Joy
Hand Gesture Games and Lullabies in the Mood of the Fifth, for Children Between Birth and Nine
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Gentle, loving games and songs that incorporate the healing, enlivening qualities of gesture, touch, and movement.
Description
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).
Author
Wilma Ellersiek (1921–2007) taught music, speech, and dance at the Stuttgart Music Academy. Her research into the effects of rhythm, movement and language on young children led to the development of the first gesture games, which became foundational to Waldorf early childhood programs worldwide. She is also the author of Gesture Games for Autumn and Winter, Gesture Games for Spring and Summer, Giving Love, Bringing Joy and Dancing Hand, Trotting Pony.
Kundry Willwerth was a Waldorf kindergarten teacher for over 30 years. For the last 20 years she has devoted herself, together with her husband Lyn, to translating Wilma Ellersiek's books, playing the games with children in her care and presenting workshops throughout North America and internationally. She is also the founder and artistic director of Magic Garden Puppets, a marionette theatre company in central New York state.
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Giving Love, Bringing Joy also has an accompanying audio CD:
Giving Love, Bringing Joy: A Learning CD
