Energize your story programs by infusing them with the power of movement! This guide offers you dozens of interactive, ready-to-use, age-appropriate and story-based activities that get children actively involved in learning. Designed to expand the child's self-awareness, range of expression, and aesthetic sensibility at particular stages of development, from infancy to puberty, these literature-based programs are simple enough to be used by any educator, even if you have little or no dance experience. Included for each program are learning goals/skill development, a literature-story connection, and detailed instructions for movement and vocal improvisation and creative dramatics. A great resource for after school programs, home schools, and daycare centers. Ages Infant-14 Stories on the Move develops a child's emergent, cultural, and interpretative literacy skills. The first three chapters for babies, toddlers, and preschoolers are based on nationally recognized standards and methods for tapping emergent literacy skills. The fourth chapter takes children on StoryTrips to other countries and includes language, stories, dances, and customs of those countries. The fifth and sixth chapters for older children show them how to interpret story structure and the elements of character, setting, mood, plot, and theme. Included for each program are learning goals/skill development, a literature-story connection, and detailed instructions for movement and vocal improvisation and creative dramatics. A great resource for after school programs, home schools, and daycare centers. Ages Infant-14.
In this potpourri of humorous, sometimes outrageous episodes involving actors, travelers, storytellers, madmen, hikers, hippies, flappers, boyfriends, cookies, castles, and credit cards, good intentions backfire. In The Livin' Doll, a dramatic senior lady joyfully entertains and engages a young girl, reliving her years as an actress, until she has a coiffure malfunction. Sixth grade boys believe they are too old for stories until the Storyteller turns into a witch with a fearsome cackle. Hippie Girls searching for Paradise in Hawaii instead meet madmen and steep inclines. A flapper generously trims the neckline of her dress and becomes Like Clara, the "It Girl" to catch a good-lookin' man at a dance, who turns out to be a mama's boy. An old woman goes in search of an elusive Almond Cookie in Chinatown, like the one she had 20 years ago and forgets where she parked her car. An elderly conscientious gent faces insomnia and unsympathetic groans from his dog as he tries to resolve the case of his compromised credit card. All the stories are based on true experiences where fact drifts into fiction.
On September 8, 1875, Wellesley College, an undergraduate liberal arts college for women, opened its doors to its first students. Eager, brave, and determined, they came from around the country to begin their new life. They took classes and made their home in College Hall, the grand building founders Henry and Pauline Durant built on a hill overlooking Lake Waban. From the beginning, an outstanding faculty, led and inspired by a series of gifted female presidents, devoted themselves to the education of their students, encouraging intellectual discussion, debate, and analytical thought. In this pioneering world of women's education, a community of learners was born and has thrived for the past 130 years. Wellesley's graduates have carried the tradition of excellence beyond the campus, epitomizing the college's mission "to provide an excellent liberal arts education for women who will make a difference in the world." In photographs and words, Wellesley College tells the story of this school from its early beginnings.
In the mid-1800s, many Jewish families joined the western expansion and emigrated from Germany to Akron, a canal town that also had an inviting countryside. They sought economic security and religious freedom--a new start in a new town. But it was not an easy life. They organized their Jewish community into cultural and religious groups, and by the 20th century, their efforts attracted Central and Eastern European Jews with differing lifestyles. In 1929, the Akron Jewish Center opened and provided a place for all of the diverse Jewish groups in Akron to gather. It also played an enormous role in raising awareness of the richness of Jewish life in the Akron community. Jewish Life in Akron celebrates 150 years of Jewish culture, family, business, and organizational life through vintage images, many never before published, and supporting history.
Ages 5-10. Sunshine isn't a show dog, like Beauty, or a search and rescue dog like Husky, or a service dog like Darling. He can DANCE! Cohen is author of Stories on the Move: (1,500 sold, used by parents, teachers, and librarians). Literacy on the Move Series: The Dancing Chameleons (2-6), The Dancing Reptiles (4-8).
More outrageous and humorous experiences with a twist of satire and magical realism await you in Mostly True II: Episodes like those that appeared in Mostly True: Short Stories. Enjoy that bumpy trek called "Life", once again from the lady whose days have been punctuated by acute moments of disbelief! In Breathless, a young and carefree child of four who frolics with the neighbor's dog finds out that four-leaf clovers don't always work as expected. The cast of characters in Fairytale House is something to write home about if you don't live there. Greta, the Hostess with the Mostess is confident that keeping up appearances is a good substitute for Seeing is Believing. In Young Love a human tractor in high gear plows down an outgrowth of puppy love. Instead of 'Baby makes three', in the story The Baby Maker, baby makes four with the addition of a meddlesome mother-in-law, a done deal. Civil Disobedience is about the price a middle-class house wife, a young mother pays when she challenges the status quo. The Dinner Show is a madcap courtroom spectacle, like something out of a Fellini film. The Glimpse, a mother and daughter's reunion reveals how fickle fate can be. When Opportunity Knocks, a woman ditches her unsavory past for a new beginning in Paradise. A Zen Meditation Center is where a confused woman goes to figure out her life and learns how to Dance in the Void. In The Light Fantastic, a dancer is taught a way to gracefully rebound after years of falling and feeling stuck.
For Ages 4-8. Are Reptiles in? Find out! Take them for a SPIN! Roar with the Alligator! See the Snake smell with his tongue! Admire a Crocodile! See a Lizard grow a new tail! Go to a Ball! A fun picture and activity book that builds literacy and agility skills...all based on true and interesting facts about reptiles. Arlene N. Cohen, author of Stories on the Move: Integrating Literature and Movement with Children from Infants to Age 14 (1,500 sold and used internationally by parents, teachers, and librarians), has created this book as part of her Literacy on the Move Series. Through these books, children learn new words as they dance and play games with the characters. Search "Arlene N. Cohen" on Amazon to see other books in the series: The Dancing Chameleons and The Dancing Dogs and their companion coloring and activity books. "A perfect book to augment a lesson plan or story time about reptiles! This delightful collection of poems with movement is a great addition to every parent, teacher and librarian's bookshelf. Highly recommended." Robin Sibley, School Librarian
Bored being just verde (green) on a leaf or marron (brown) on a trunk, Carlos the Chameleon ventures out on a limb to be more colors. He turns amarillo (yellow) dancing La Mariposa Mambo with yellow butterfly, roja (red) dancing La Rumba Rosa with red roses, and purpura (purple) when dancing with purple tulips. More excitement is on the way!
Amerika in de jaren ’70 en ’80: een vrouwelijke wetenschapper probeert gezin en carrière te combineren ondanks het seksisme in haar omgeving. ‘Artefact’ van Arlene Heyman speelt zich af in 1984: de tweeënveertigjarige professor Lottie Levinson doet complex onderzoek als biologe en gaat op in haar werk. Ze is gelukkig getrouwd met haar tweede echtgenoot Jake, met wie ze zich met liefde ontfermt over hun chaotische, samengestelde gezin. Maar Lottie heeft decennialang gevochten voor dit geluk. Ze groeide halverwege de twintigste eeuw op in een conservatief milieu in hartje Amerika, een tijd en omgeving waarin de jonge Lottie zich onderscheidde door haar intelligentie en nieuwsgierigheid. Maar behalve door haar hersenen liet Lottie zich in haar jonge jaren ook leiden door haar hormonen, zodat ze al als vroege twintiger kwam vast te zitten in een uitzichtloos huwelijk. In ‘Artefact’ volgen we Lottie gedurende vier decennia vol maatschappelijke veranderingen, onrust en protesten in de Verenigde Staten; in de periode van de Vietnamoorlog tot en met de tweede feministische golf worstelt ze zich door talloze barrières die het seksisme voor haar opwerpt.
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