About the Book

Baby Steps Music and Play is a musical activities book designed for children ages birth to six years. The book enables parents and teachers to teach basic rhythm, movement, and signing skills to young children.  Parents and teachers can create a class activity or just one-on-one music time.  The teaching aide CD allows parents and teachers to hear the melody of the songs in the book. There are designated sections for rhythm, movement, signing, and seasonal songs. Each activity has directions and suggestions on how to teach, guide, and create new ways to learn that particular song or fingerplay.  Parents and teachers can take a song and add movement, signing, or instruments that can create many different levels of learning.  Each activity can be adapted and modified as appropriate for the age of the child.  Photos of children and illustrations drawn by children can help describe the activity.  Parents and teachers are encouraged not just to teach but to join in and have fun.  Remember, the stepping stones of music start here.

About the Author

Jamie Giovinali is an early childhood music teacher.  She has spent the last ten years teaching children aged birth to kindergarten-level.  As she discovered new ways to engage children while teaching a song, sign language, or activity, she began to write her own curriculum.  Jamie feels that parents and teachers can create a fun and learning atmosphere by engaging and participating with a child one-on-one or in a classroom setting.  The stepping stones of music start in early childhood.

 

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