The Book of Movement Exploration: Can You Move Like This? (First Steps in Music series)

These activities bring out the strong movement impulses in children, who love to burn off energy by spontaneously dancing around the living room or running from place to place. Children will develop an awareness for their bodies, time, space, weight, locomotion, flow, and shape. Performed quickly or slowly, with music or without, solo or in a group, these activities make for fun, engaging educational experiences for children.

John M. Feierabend is a national leader in the field of early childhood education and currently serves as a professor and chair of the music education division at the Hartt School of the University of Hartford in Connecticut. He lives in Simsbury, Connecticut. Jane Kahan teaches dance at Bluff Elementary School. She lives in Dayton, Ohio.