To
learn about the food chain (what eats what eats what...),
we
rewrote the words to
"I Know An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly".
This version is by Laurissa.
I know an
old lady who swallowed a fly.
I don't know why she swallowed a fly.
Perhaps she'll die.
I know an
old lady who swallowed a frog.
She swallowed the frog to catch the fly.
I don't know why she swallowed the fly.
Perhaps she'll die.
I know an
old lady who swallowed a snake.
When she ate the snake, she had a big shake.
She swallowed the snake to catch the frog.
She swallowed the frog to catch the fly.
I don't know why she swallowed the fly.
Perhaps she'll die.
I know an
old lady who swallowed a hawk.
She talked and she talked, when she swallowed the hawk.
She swallowed the hawk to catch the snake.
She swallowed the snake to catch the frog.
She swallowed the frog to catch the fly.
I don't know why she swallowed the fly.
Perhaps she'll die.
I know an
old lady who swallowed a lynx
She looked like a sphinx when she swallowed the lynx
She swallowed the lynx to catch the hawk.
She swallowed the hawk to catch the snake.
She swallowed the snake to catch the frog.
She swallowed the frog to catch the fly.
I don't know why she swallowed the fly.
Perhaps she'll die.
I know an
old lady who swallowed a maggot
She didn't like it when she swallowed the maggot
She swallowed the maggot to eat the dead lynx.
She swallowed the lynx to catch the hawk.
She swallowed the hawk to catch the snake.
She swallowed the snake to catch the frog.
She swallowed the frog to catch the fly.
I don't know why she swallowed the fly.
But she just died!
Here are
some of our drawings of that crazy old lady (or man)!
(Jessica helped insert these drawings and turn them into thumbnails.)