Totally for Twos
Posted by Debra Liverman on 20 Jul 2009 | Posted in: The Mailbox Books
It’s a big world out there, and your two-year-olds are eager to learn about it! Trouble is, teachers have told us that finding books with activities for that age group can be tough.
I’m excited to share a great new book just for these little ones! Totally for Twos from The Mailbox® Books is packed with hundreds of simple and fun learning experiences taken from The Mailbox® magazine Preschool edition. Youngsters will build language skills, explore numbers, sing songs, do some art, explore the senses, and so much more!
Here is a quick summertime song from the book and a few sample pages to try out with your class.
A Summer Song
Help children think of all the fun things they can do in the summer heat. Then personalize this song for each child, inviting her to fill in her favorite summertime activity in the third line.
(sung to the tune of “You Are My Sunshine”)
You know it’s summer! Oh, yes, it’s summer!
It gets so bright and hot outside.
But [Erin] loves it, ’cause (s)he [goes swimming].
Oh, in summer we have so much fun!
Once you try them out, please be sure to stop back by and let me know how they worked with your children. If you’ve already purchased this book and have been using it, I’d love your feedback on that too! I hope you find that it is exactly what you have been asking us for!
Congratulations to Julie Ulm, Norkenzie Christian Preschool; Eugene, OR. She is the winner of a copy of the Best of Mailbox Authors, Prek-K.
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Thank you thank you for coming up with this terrific book “Totally for Twos”. I work with almost all 2 year olds and I needed to adjust my resources to work for them. Now with this book I can just go to a page and I can plan, so much quicker and easier. I have tons of resource books from The Mailbox have been buying for years, thank you for doing just this age group. The kiddos also like it when we sang the song. They already knew the tune and the other words now they would say, “That’s my name in the song.” Thank you for a product.
I am a lead teacher for the Toddler room at work and I usually have to scale down the preschool activities so this “Totally for Two’s book” would be a great addition to my lesson planning resources.
The song was a hit! What a great way for my kids to help create the song and have their name appear in it. We’ve been singing it all day =)
Thanks for thinking of the 2’s! I teach 2’s and appreciate any extra help I can get. Thanks a bunch!
I am all excited about this book. I use mailbox ideas all the time and have to gear them down for my little ones. this book will help a lot.
Mailbox,
Thank you so much for finally making this book! I have been asking for a Two’s age group mailbox forever, and I am so excited to see that it has come to life! The activities look great, thank you so much!!
Jessica
Mailbox, I am so excited that you have come up with a book devoted to the 2’s. I LOVE Mailbox - books and magazine - and have taken many ideas from them and adapted them for my 2’s class. Thank you!!
I can’t wait to try this book for my new class of three/two year olds. It’s great to have a separate
book just for this age group.
This looks fabulous! I use the monthly magazines for great ideas in my toddler classroom. I am excited to receive this book! We will be beginning the school year soon so this will come right as we are beginning to plan! Thanks for all the great ideas each and every month!
I run a Daycare with infant and up. I usually keep 10 children every day. I use several of the mailbox
books. I’m thinking about this one. We tried one of the sample pages and the children loved it. Thanks for having sooo many books to choose from.
In my group of children I have 2 through 4. keeping the 2’s busy with something while he other children are doing their work is hard to do. I’m looking forward to testing the book out. I have used many Mailbox books in the past, and they have been great. I’m sure this one will be also. Thanks so much for all your hard work!
I teach 21/2 year olds in a preschool setting, and this book is great!!!I was sooo excited to see The Mailbox had a book specifically for this age group!! I use tons of Mailbox preschool books, and tailor the activities a bit, which work great as well. But this is a great resource to go to when looking for a certain skill activity, and I love the development chart at the beginning! Thank you! Thank you!