This fall I will be teaching a class called Sing and Swing Baby at Dancewave Center in Brooklyn. These classes are Baby and Grown-up classes starting at 5 months through the transition of crawling to walking. I am really looking forward to it and it should be a new experience, which I love! This week I am going to take a trip to the bookstore to do some research on this age group and see what is important for their development. I want the class to be fun for the grownups too, afterall it is a dance class!

Maria Hanley is an independent early childhood dance educator in New York City.

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