I Can Dance uses expressive play to support children’s emotional well-being, offering movement-based activities that foster emotional release, connection, and joy in the classroom. Join the movement — bring expressive play to your students today!
Specs:
8.5″ x 8.5″, 20 pages
Audio recordings available online!
Grades:
K–6
Supporting Social Emotional Learning
I Can Dance is a six-book series with facilitated audio that brings expressive play back to children. Created by Reclaiming Our Students co-author Hannah Beach, this updated edition nurtures creativity, emotional expression, and movement — filling a crucial gap in today’s play-deprived childhoods. Also available in French as Je peux danser.
- Expressive play fills a need for relationship. It helps to build connection between the teacher and student(s).
- Super easy for educators to use: first, read the introduction, which will explain how to set up everything. Then, read the book to your class, and turn on the facilitated audio and — just like that — activity ready!
- Self-regulation is the gift that comes from the movement experiences of this book.
Each title in the I Can Dance series
- features an introduction that focuses on how to use dance as expressive play to support children’s emotional health.
- is designed for K–6 classrooms across Canada.
- includes digital access to files both with and without voice-over facilitation.
Free Sample Lesson
We are thrilled to provide access to a specially designed lesson for I Can Dance with a digital book that explores emotional health through expressive play. Expressive play supports children’s emotional well-being, offering movement-based activities that foster emotional release, connection, and joy in the classroom. Join the movement — bring expressive play to your students today!
Team
Best-Selling Author Hannah Beach
Hannah Beach is an award-winning educator, author, emotional health consultant, and keynote speaker. She is the co-author of the best-selling book Reclaiming Our Students: Why Children Are More Anxious, Aggressive, and Shut-Down than Ever—and What We Can Do About It, with Tamara Neufeld Strijack, a trauma-informed resource for educators and parents rooted in the relationship-based approach. The book has been translated into multiple languages internationally and adopted by school boards and universities across Canada. She was recognized by the Canadian Human Rights Commission in 2017 as one of five featured changemakers in Canada.
Her bestselling I Can Dance book series, supporting the emotional health of children through movement, play, and expression, won a goldmedal at the 2017 Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards, an international awards contest. You can find her at hannahbeach.ca
