Connie Bergstein DowOne, Two, What Can I Do?: Dance and Music for the Whole Day

Well researched, organized according to a preschooler's day, each movement exercise is clearly explained and easy for any adult to use. The accompanying music CDs are joyful and bouncy and the words are clearly understood. Any child would love to join in these movements and songs. Any adult would be successful in leading children using this book. No professional movement training is needed to create a space where preschoolers have fun moving while developing their physical, emotional, and social skills. There is room for each leader to create these movements in a personalized way to enhance each child's imaginative self-expression. A large or small indoor space may be used or they may be done outdoors. The movements are easily turned into little performance pieces, too! I highly recommend this thorough and joyful book.

Children have such a natural love of movement! Yet in my work as a dance educator, I often found teachers reluctant to integrate movement activities into their classrooms because they felt they had no dance experience themselves. Thanks to this marvelous book, this won’t be a problem—even for those of us who are sure we have “two left feet”! One, Two, What Can I Do? by Connie Bergstein Dow includes teacher-friendly, no experience necessary, step-by-step directions to more than 100 movement activities and includes CD’s with charming music by Debbie Clement. Activities are designed to be integrated into the day’s rituals (starting the day, circle time, transitions, quiet time and saying goodbye) as well as to teach about language, numbers, shapes, and patterns, science, and social studies. There are also a host of lessons to help young children develop their large motor skills. I can’t recommend this book highly enough!

I worked at a very challenging daycare, and I used One, Two, What Can I do each and every day. I had never worked with four and five year olds, and this book saved my life. I used all of the creative movement activities, the music, and the stories. Connie Bergstein Dow took her time and organized this book thematically which is also a huge plus. I, not only used the book myself, I gave it as gifts to many preschool and kindergarten teachers!

I recently came upon this book and found a gold mine of ideas for play and creative movement with preschoolers. It is beautifully organized and easy to follow, even for the novice to movement instruction. It offers multiple approaches to coordination and activities that are part of every day life, and encourages ways to be creative in the process. I'd highly recommend this book.

Music was repetitive and boring and the woman's voice was hard to listen to perpetually,not worth the $ and returned, lacked depth and imagination.