SoundPlay: Understanding Music through Creative Movement

Primarily for use with children aged three to eight, SoundPlay will spark the creative imaginations of both teachers and children and provide children with developmentally appropriate challenges for using their skills in creative ways. Features include: 14 lessons designed to help young children learn to move their bodies in 20 different ways, 33 lessons involving children in the creative uses of movements they have learned to show recognition of the different aspects of music, a CD with 47 musical selections built around the lessons and composed especially to stimulate young children’s interest in moving to musical sound, an index of aspects of music highlighted in the activities, and the complete MENC PreK Music Standards and K-4 National Standards for Music Education.