SKU: GI.G-10619B
Save when you purchase all three volumes of Children of the Light! Volume 1: The 25 sessions in this resource offer a variety of ways to explore each topic as part of a continual and ongoing process, including gathering prayers, scripture readings, games or icebreakers, hands-on activities, reflective responses by the participants, and closing prayer rituals. Includes a CD-ROM with all handouts, letters, and worksheets. Volume 2: This second volume of contains 28 more sessions that build on the children??s evolving faith formation first explored in the precatechumenate period and developed in the first volume. Includes a CD-ROM with all handouts, letters, and worksheets. Volume 3: Volume 3 provides rich, interactive sessions for the Period of Purification and Enlightenment and the Period of Mystagogy as children prepare for and receive the sacraments of initiation through the RCIA as adapted for children. It offers eleven core sessions, two retreat formats (a Day Retreat to Prepare for the Rite of Election and a Lenten Day of Reflection) plus an additional session on the sacrament of reconciliation. This volume includes a code to access downloadable PDFs of handouts, worksheets, and a letter home for each session.
Save when you purchase all three volumes of Children of the Light!  Volume 1: The 25 sessions in this resource offer a variety of ways to explore each topic as part of a continual and ongoing process, including gathering prayers, scripture readings, games or icebreakers, hands-on activities, reflective responses by the participants, and closing prayer rituals. Includes a CD-ROM with all handouts, letters, and worksheets.  Volume 2: This second volume of contains 28 more sessions that build on the children’s evolving faith formation first explored in the precatechumenate period and developed in the first volume. Includes a CD-ROM with all handouts, letters, and worksheets.  Volume 3: Volume 3 provides rich, interactive sessions for the Period of Purification and Enlightenment and the Period of Mystagogy as children prepare for and receive the sacraments of initiation through the RCIA as adapted for children. It offers eleven core sessions, two retreat formats (a Day Retreat to Prepare for the Rite of Election and a Lenten Day of Reflection) plus an additional session on the sacrament of reconciliation.  This volume includes a code to access downloadable PDFs of handouts, worksheets, and a letter home for each session.
SKU: GI.G-J383
ISBN 9781622775408.
Thro ugh engaging children using Music Play 2, adults may build relationships with newborn and young children, additional family members, and other adults as they joyfully make music together, affirm and nurture newborn and young children’s innate capacities for expressive musicking and movement, and honor and extend young children’s expressed musical curiosities, ideas, and audeas (musical thoughts and ideas), helping them realize that their musical identities are worth sharing, developing, and preserving. Music Play 2 materials function in companion with Music Play (GIA, 1998) and Edwin Gordon’s Music Learning Theory for Newborn and Young Children (GIA, 2013). Music Play 2 (494 pages) is bundled into two parts, Part A and Part B. The following are the features of each part:  Part A (264 pages) Part B (229 pages) Tribute to Edwin Gordon Guiding Newborn and Young Children’s Innate Music Capacities Guiding Young Children Through Types and Stages of Preparatory Audiation: The Materials Using Music Play 2 Inclusion: All Children and Their Families (Salvador) 45 Extended Music Engagement Plans, each with a music selection (i.e., song, song/chant combination, or chant) in a wide variety of tonalities and meters, and prototypical examples of social-music and movement play in relation to Gordon’s three types of preparatory audiation. Each song has a chord root or bass-line melody notated, singable as an additional part, as well as chord functions to guide harmonic accompaniment to the melody. Each plan features More Audeas for Music Play, such as tonal pattern and/or rhythm pattern examples for each type of preparatory audiation, supplemental harmonic and rhythm accompaniments to add to the music selection, and More Ideas for Music Play, such as examples of ways to connect Music Play 2 activities to PK–2 2014 Music Standards, and one inclusion strategy in a Domain of Learning. Guidance for teaching chord root or bass line melodies and additional harmony parts, and chordal accompaniments. Complete listing of all PK–2 2014 Music Standards, along with which extended music engagement plans feature each standard. Indices: Comprehensive Index Headings, Music Play (1998) and Music Play 2 Comprehensive Index of Music Selections Alphabetized by Type and Title: Music Play (1998) and Music Play 2 Modified Comprehensive Index, Music Play 2: Parts A and B Music Play 2: Part A Music Selections Alphabetized by Type and Title Music Play 2: Part A Music Selections Alphabetized by Title 71 Music Engagement Plans, each with a music selection (i.e., song, song/chant combination, or chant) in a wide variety of tonalities and meters, and prototypical examples of social-music and movement play in relation to Gordon’s three types of preparatory audiation. Each song has a chord root or bass-line melody notated, singable as an additional part, as well as chord functions to guide harmonic accompaniment to the melody. Apply More Audeas and More Ideas you discover using Part A to music selections and engagement plans in Part B. Part B features tonalites and meters unique to music selections in Part B, and “Hello†and/or “Goodbye†music selections. Guidance for teaching chord root or bass line melodies and additional harmony parts, and chordal accompaniments. Editor and Contributor List (83 total) An 11-page, comprehensive bibliography and resource list to support researchers and practitioners and promote their audiation-based social-music and movement play with others, especially during early childhood. Indices: Comprehensive Index Headings: Music Play (1998) and Music Play 2 Comprehensive Index of Music Selections Alphabetized by Type and Title: Music Play (1998) and Music Play 2 Modified Comprehensive Index, Music Play 2: Parts A and B Music Play 2: Part B Music Selections Alphabetized by Type and Title Music Play 2: Part B Music Selections Alphabetized by Title Download Music Play 2 Extended Indexes (free)  Music Play 2 is a welcomed contribution for all who are concerned with appropriately guiding children’s musical understandings—par ents, teachers, and caregivers. The book is extremely well organized with an excellent balance of theory and practice. The theoretical underpinnings of Music Play 2 are presented in a “user friendly†manner, the lessons are easy to follow and adapt for individual children’s needs and level of development, the numerous songs and chants represent a wide variety of tonalities and meters, and an extensive section on inclusion and inclusive practices has been added. Music Play 2 will be the resource I use for my early childhood music classes! —Joanne Rutkowski, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Music Education   The Pennsylvania State University This book had me interested from the table of contents onward. The lessons are detailed and ready to use in the classroom. I love that there are tonal and rhythmic patterns to go with each song or chant. This is truly a resource that will delight children and teachers as it is easy to use, appropriate for young children, and pedagogically sound. When I finished, I was ready to jump back into teaching early childhood music. Fantastic! —Alice M. Hammel, Ph.D.   James Madison University Music Play 2 is devoted to the wonder of young children’s musical development. The authors have adeptly woven theory and practice, offering a treasure trove of fresh, accessible lesson plans developed by leading researchers and practitioners in the field of early childhood music. An excellent, indispensable resource with original and high-quality music content, Music Play 2 is essential for all providers of music for young children, and sure to be used time and time again. —Suzanne L. Burton, Ph.D., Professor of Music Education   University of Delaware.
SKU: WD.080689614170
UPC: 080689614170.
Pasto r Stan needs help…he wants to do a sermon on “The Bible,†but he needs to cover the entire Bible in 25-minutes! As impossible as it may sound, Pastor Stan knows just who to turn to. He’ll hire the world’s most famous kid-operated advertising agency——B. I.G.! With the help of crack creative team B. I.G, Pastor Stand knows he’ll get exactly what he needs! From there the group’s Big-Bible-Bundle highlights how, even though God first created a perfect world, Adam and Eve made a decision that allowed sin to enter the world. This was The BIG Choice: Catastrophe! Next, the talented team decides to showcase God’s plan to deal with sin: The BIG Gift, in the form of both a cradle and a cross. Jesus — born on Earth fully human and fully God, fulfilling God’s promise of a Savior, and then redeeming us from sin through His work on the cross and the promise of eternal life. Finally, B. I.G.’s focus and creativity leads us to The BIG Finish: A Celebration and a Crown. We can all celebrate that Jesus is King, and that He is coming back to take us home to live with Him in Heaven forever! The Simply WordKidz Series simply means that BIG—The BIG Bible Idea Group—is especially designed with easy-learn, easy-sing songs for kids and is easier-than-easy for you to produce! Created by Gina Boe, BIG is the perfect resource for your children’s ministry to present a fun-filled production that teaches fundamental, scriptural truths of the Big, BIG, BIG story of the Bible!
