1. From the editor...

   EditorialNotes Pages: 4 - 4

2. Functional play: A tool for toddler learning

   • Carol Seefeldt
   • Nita Barbour

   Features Pages: 6 - 9

3. It's OK to be afraid of the water

   • Debbie Frontiera

   Features Pages: 10 - 17

4. Fun folds: Life on the water

   • Laura Grey
   • Rachel Katz

   Features Pages: 18 - 22

5. Evaluating reading attitudes

   • Olivia N. Saracho

   Features Pages: 23 - 25

6. Fostering social development through block play

   • Dwight L. Rogers

   Features Pages: 26 - 29

7. When is a song a song? The development of singing in early childhood

   • Lyle Davidson
   • W. George Scarlett

   Features Pages: 30 - 31

8. Parent/teacher relationships

   • Amy Laura Dombro

   Columns Pages: 32 - 32

9. Peacock feathers

   • Benjamin Mardell

   Columns Pages: 33 - 34

10. Violet

    • Rosemarie Tannich

    Columns Pages: 35 - 37

11. There's a “pal” in principal

    • Angela B. Haight

    Columns Pages: 38 - 39

12. Four seasons

    • Madalynne Schoenfeld

    Columns Pages: 40 - 41

13. Restock shelves the easy way

    • Harriet Hartman

    Columns Pages: 42 - 43

14. Reading rainbow

    • Randa Roen Nachbar

    Columns Pages: 44 - 46