Eurythmy for the Young Child
A Guide for Teachers and Parents

Estelle Bryer

Softbound

$24.50

Eurythmy for the Young Child is a stunning collection of stories, songs and poems that will serve your children equally well as the basis for eurythmy, storytime, circle time or simple, delightful interludes throughout the day.

Estelle Bryer has had 45 years experience working with kindergarten children as teacher, advisor, puppeteer and eurythmy therapist but specialising as kindergarten eurythmist. The all-encompassing contents are a culmination of her work.  The delightful lessons are suitable for circle time or eurythmy lessons (ages 3-8years), and are complete in themselves. They cover the seasons, festivals and stories such as the Turnip or Golden Goose and more, and include written music.  They have separate suggestions for use by the kindergarten or eurythmy teacher. 

Eurythmy
A Creative Force in Humanity

Experiences from Pedagogical Practice

Sylvia Bardt

Softbound

$18.00

Sylvia Bardt has created a thorough overview of the why's, wherefor's and content of pedagogical Eurythmy as taught in Waldorf schools.

Her particular instructions are intended for Eurythmy teachers and will probably not mean all that much to those of us who are untrained. However, the love the author holds for her art and the children in her care shines through and informs all of us in so very many ways. Her accounts are insightful and warm - anyone wanting to gain an better understanding of what lies within the intent of pedagogical Eurythmy will be well met by this book.

Eurythmy for the Elementary Grades

Francine Adams

Softbound

$12.00

For eurythmy teachers, class teachers, and parents wanting to further their understanding of the development of eurythmy through the elementary years. There are diagrams, poems, and instructions for each grade level.

However, I feel I should add that if you know nothing of eurythmy, this book will not enable you to conduct eurythmy with students. It will further your understanding enormously, but it presupposes a significant level of training to be able to implement the exercises and performances suggested.

Come Unto These Yellow Sands
Eurythmy, Movement and Classroom Experience

Molly von Heider

Softbound

$27.95

This book is one of those real gems that was available when my own children were young (I still have my well-worn copy), then went out of print and now is available again. I feel enormous gratitude to the publisher that this delicious collection of songs, poems, games and master-teacher suggestions and thoughts is once again available.

There are so many ways to use this book - if you are a parent, the rhymes and songs will gladden your children's days (and your's!); if you are a class teacher, there is a wealth of group games, songs to sing and poems to recite; if you are a eurythmist or movement specialist, you'll find each of the songs or poems suggests its own special movement and von Heider's comments and suggestions will inspire your own creative insights.

I personally used this book both as a source book for the delight of my children and also when when I was working with special needs children to devise ways to help them connect more fully to the world through movement. I found it an inexhaustible treasure trove, one which I now recommend without reservation.

Allegro
Music for the Eurythmy Curriculum

Elisabeth Lebret

Softbound

$14.00

This is a wonderful collection of music for eurythmy classes from kindergarten through high school. The selections are beautiful!

Movement Journeys and Circle Adventures
Movement Enrichment with a Therapeutic Approach for Early Childhood

Nancy Blanning and Laurie Clark

Spiral Bound

$23.50

What a joy! Here is an entire book filled not just with charming circle games and songs for the kindergarten, but with charming games and songs that have been created to help our young children find their way into their bodies and souls. In more prosaic language, these games and movement songs address the spatial integration and sensory processing development issues that it seems more and more children are struggling with.

However you think about it, this is a book of genius and a gift to young children. The games are delightful - teachers and parents will have as much fun and the children. And, they are brilliantly thought out to include movement forms that will bring the children into the world in with strength and balance.

This is a truly essential resource of the caliber of AHE's Resource Teacher's Developmental Exercise Manual. Use it. Love it.

Dance as Movement History
Spacial Dynamics of Social Dance for the High School

Valerie Baadh

Softbound

$10.00

One of a series of research papers, "Dance as Movement History" offers both a spiritual/historical consideration of dance as well as a cogent discussion of the place of dance as part of the curriculum of a Waldorf high school.

The Human Being as Music

Lea van der Pals

Softbound

$19.95

Lea van der Pals was very much involved in the founding of eurythmy. She performed and taught the art throughout her life, travelling extensively in Europe and North America. The Human Being as Music reflects van der Pals' extensive experience as teacher. The book is specifically aimed at students of eurythmy and assumes some prior knowledge of the subject.

Joyful Movement
A Resource for Nurturing Balance, Movement and the Senses

Christopherus Homeschool Resources

Donna Simmons

Spiral bound

$25.00

Donna Simmons always seems to know what I want her to write next -- perhaps because she is so tuned in to what we all want for our children and what we need that is missing from available resources. Joyful Movement answers the longing for a simple, do-able approach to integrating movement (and joy!) into home and homeschool life. Even when the integrator is not a dancer, eurythmist, gymnast or even particularly graceful. Donna, in her wonderful spirit of warm practicality, takes even the least "movement trained" of us by the hands, soothes away our sense of guilt and inadequacy, and then playfully leads us into as much delight as our children experience. This is so much more than just a book about movement -- this is a book about moving into life with joy, about awakening all our senses to the wonder of the world -- and while we're at it, learning to move with beauty and grace. Joyful Movement focuses primarily on the needs of children from birth to 9 and is ever aware of what an adult teaching them needs as support. Wonderful!!!!

Contents:

• Waldorf as Therapeutic Education
• Creating a Nurturing Environment
• Ideas and Advice - Body & Spatial Awareness; Fine Motor Skils, etc.; the Senses; Memory; Calming Down
• A Waldorf-inspired Backyard Assault Course (that's British for "Obstacle Course")
• Songs, Fingerplays, Movement, Verses
• Tongue-Twisters, Clapping Verses (Hand Games)
• Groups

Joyful Movement is a joyful resource for any parent or teacher wishing to embrace a joyful approach to learning.

Touch the Earth Gently
Games and Sports - Class 1 to 12

Alan Whitehead

$18.95

A great collection of games and movement activities for Waldorf physical education through all 12 grades. Contents: the class trip, family and fun, games and sport, elementary games, water games, facilities, ball games, 7 movements, children's gymnastics, 4 temperaments, bush games, field games, indoor games, equipment games, high school sports, sport physiology, scuba diving, martial arts, sport's a joke!, fishing? clean-up, Australia, hunting?!, dancing, Steiner as sportsperson

Looking Forward
Games, Rhymes and Exercises to Help Children Develop Their Learning Abilities

Molly von Heider

$25.00

Molly von Heider years' of experience as a class teacher and eurythmist has enabled her to give us marvelous collection of games, songs, verses, etc. for children in grades 1 through 5. The qualities of the verses and the activities of the games benefit children in the early years and lay the foundation for sound learning later on. Also included is a very special section on "Gardening with Children" by Peter Hughs and Fiona von Heider, one of the few written accounts of a Waldorf gardening class.

Games Children Play
How games and sport help children develop

Kim Brooking-Payne

$30.00

This is an exciting collection of games and activities for children from preschool through the teenage years. Interspersed with over 200 games, organized by age group, are articles and commentary on the benefits of the various activities for healthy development, and suggestions as to how to help children overcome challenges of coordination and strength. This is a great book for teachers, parents, coaches, and anyone interested in the relationship between physical and personal development. Kim Brooking-Payne is to be congratulated for his truly excellent work.

Child's Play 1 & 2: Games for Life for Children

Wil van Haren &
Rudolf Kischnick

$25.00

This is an almost encyclopedic collection of games and activities for children from preschool to fourteen. Child's Play is a terrific resource for anyone who works with groups of children, as well as being a great refresher course on how to play many of traditional games from our own childhood.