Working with two- and three-year-olds is an important job, one that will influence children’s lifelong learning. With strategies to plan a developmentally appropriate program, build positive relationships with young children, and support young children’s learning in all areas, Teaching Twos and Threes is a classroom essential. What’s more, it’s packed with creative activity ideas! It will help you Reflect on your teaching practices as you plan a developmentally appropriate program that is stimulating and authentic for all twos and threes Foster children’s independence in an environment that is filled with opportunities for free exploration Plan hands-on and engaging art, circle time, dramatic play, science and nature, cooking, and writing exploration activities and experiences Deborah Falasco is lead teacher for the two- and three-year-old program at Wimpfheimer Nursery School, the laboratory school at Vassar College. Deborah is a frequent presenter and has received several awards recognizing her outstanding work with toddlers.

What Comes in 2's, 3's, & 4's is Suzanne Aker's incredibly fun and educational picture book. Suzanne Aker's What Comes in 2's, 3's, & 4's introduces the numbers two, three, and four by enumerating the ways in which they occur in everyday life, from your two eyes and two arms to the four seasons of the year.

In Two's Company, Three is Complexity, Neil Johnson draws on his experience as a leading researcher in the field to explore the surprising ways in which order eventually emerges from the interaction of all things. Relevant across the whole breadth of social studies and science from pubs to plants, Johnson utilizes a wealth of real-life examples as he leads us on a brilliantly entertaining romp through chaos, game theory, economics, and even jazz, ultimately proving that complexity lies at the heart of the Universe itself.

"Being friends is so much fun. But when a new pal shows up, everything changes...Suddenly three's a crowd..."--Dust jacket front flap.

When two-year olds begin in nursery schools and day care centers, they need activities specially designed to expand their capabilities and interests. The activities, which both teachers and children will enjoy, develop self-image, listening, language, social growth, movement, science, math, and music. These activities will keep a young toddler's mind as active as a toddler's body. It includes introductory sections covering basic and individual goals, classroom arrangement, scheduling, discipline, materials, parent involvement, and assessment. Shape Walks, Mitten Week, Bunny May I, and many other activities make this book an incredible resource.

Following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a collection of domestic crimes provoked the Joint Chiefs of Staff to implement an elite task force to eliminate any future threats. And just in time. When a once-innocent child turned adult psychopath takes his righteous revenge for nearly two decades of abuse on the citizens of Richmond, Virginia, the Task Force is sent to neutralize the threat by any means necessary. Mark Jason of Jason Enterprises is recruited for his specialized military training in an effort to challenge the emotional complexity of the killer that haunts Richmond's streets. His four-man team comes equipped with uncanny, bizarre, and ingenious specialties of their own. As the hunters become the hunted, even the most lethal men in the nation are in danger of becoming victims. This suspenseful thriller will leave the reader griping the pages, as the war of intellect over delusion wages on in a deadly time trap.