Terrific Toddlers do some cracking good counting!

I love to do this counting rhyme every week at T4! Here you go Mimi!

Potato Counting Rhyme

One potato, two potato, three potato, four! (count with your fingers)
Well, I made a batch of hot potatoes (bend forward and stir as in a big pot)
Dropped 'em on the floor!! (look shocked, and put hands on face in surprise)

Five potato, six potato, seven potato, eight! (count with your fingers)
So I stomped 'em into mashed potatoes (stomp the potatoes!)
And plopped 'em on a plate (hands out like plopping potatoes on a plate!)

Nine potato, ten potato, (count with your fingers)
Can't believe my eyes! (cover and uncover eyes in surprise)
The children ate 'em up and now they want some french fries!!!
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
French fries! (jump up and reach over head to sky on 10)


Miss Heather made a video of it for us, just in case you wish to see it in action!

Potato!

Miss Heather found this great chant about potatoes on Gayle's Preschool Rainbow website. To get the words click on the link above. It's called "Counting Fingerplay." Want to know how to sing it? Watch the video! Miss Heather made this especially for us!

I wrote a children's book. Now what do I do?

We are super lucky to have Rebecca O'Connell on our staff! She's one of our librarians and she's also a published author! Who better to answer our question "I wrote a children's book. Now what do I do?" In this video, she tells you about three books that helped her through the process of having her work published.

It’s a Bunny-eat-bunny World by Olga Litowinsky

Complete Idiot’s Guide to Publishing Children’s Books by Harold Underdown

You Can Write Children’s Books by Tracey Dils

Rebecca will also be one of the featured speakers at the 12th Annual Children's Literature Conference at the University of Pittsburgh, Greensburg on Friday, May 2, 2008.

It's Paul "Ogre" Zelinsky!

Here he is reading you a poem from Awful Ogre's Awful Day by Jack Prelutsky.

More hot dog related content.... I wonder why all these children's authors love hot dogs?