Sora Searches for a Song Voice Book Kids Book Speech Therapy Book Creative Movement Book

Sora Searches for a Song: Little Cricket’s Imagination Journey (Dance-It-Out! Creative Movement Stories
Author: Once Upon a Dance
Current book available is paperback.
31 pages
8.5 x 0.1 x 8.5 inches

A GROW with me type of book. Can be adapted for younger children and older children. Movement activities throughout the book! A book that will be on the bookshelf and used for many years!
**A wonderful story of perseverance and celebrating your own unique voice.

Readers are invited to stretch, balance, jump, and move along with all the creatures in this delightful story of perseverance and celebrating your own unique voice. An enchanting resource for kindergarten and first-grade classroom, dance teachers, and families at home.

Sora Searches for a Song is ideal for ages 5-8. It features Sora (no pronouns), birds, fish, frogs, dragonflies, turtles, snakes and more. Ballerina Konora joins each page with optional ideas to explore dance fundamentals. As kids move along with the characters and Ballerina Konora, they explore head/tail connection, dynamic posture, vestibular action, balance, movement quality, partnering, and more.

Movement Concepts in Sora Searches for a Song:
• Forward Stretch • Relevé • Side Bend • Balance in Squat, on Hands/Knees, on All Fours • Grand Plié in 1st (unnamed) • Cat/Cow from Standing, Knees, and Squat • Jumping – Simple, from Squat, and with Pulled-Up Feet • Balancing on One Leg • Tall Posture • Directions – Behind, Forward, Up/Down, Sideways • Movement Initiation • Muscle Activation • Coordinated Movements • Body Part Isolation (Shoulders, Arms, Head, etc.) • Small Motor Skills (Palms Touch, Moving Fingers, etc.) • Breath – Humming, Filling Lungs, Sighing, Howling • Quality of Movement (Powerful, Darting, Strong, Soft, Gently, etc.) • Showing Emotion (Sad, Doubtful, Intrigued, Fearful, etc.) • Shapes (Tall, Twisted, Rooted, Low, Curled, etc.) • Following/Personal Space

This movement journey is ideal for dance, creative movement, physical education, homeschool, kindergarten, first-grade, or second-grade activities. Dance-it-Out! books make a great gift for boys or girls interested in dance, ballet, gymnastics, or yoga, or reluctant readers who enjoy getting up and moving around.

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