In this book, it was about a very hungry old lady. She starts off by eating a fly. But obviously she was still hungry so she ate a cat so the cat could eat the fly. Then she swallowed another animal to eat the cat and the fly. This continues through out the book until something happens. It is something that you would think would happen after you eat.

Write about what you would do if you swallowed a fly, like the old lady at the beginning of the rhyme, The Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly, and draw a picture of the scene.

There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly

Circle the starting sounds of words from The Old Lady and the Fly story, and color the picture of the word. The words are lady, bird, spider, dog, cat, fly, cow, goat, horse, eat. Or go to the answers. Find the words in The Old Lady and the Fly wordsearch puzzle, then use the extra letters to find the secret message: "The old lady died." Or go to the answers.

Decca DL 5467, reviewed in Billboard, September 12, 1953, p. 36. The record label also indicates the Mills-Bonne credit. Find the missing letters in The Old Lady and the Fly story words, and then color the picture of the word. The words are eat, fly, cat, dog, bird, cow, lady, goat, horse, spider.

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The song tells the nonsensical story of an old woman who swallows increasingly large animals, each to catch the previously swallowed animal, but dies after swallowing a horse. There are many variations of phrasing in the lyrics, especially for the description of swallowing each animal. Find and write eight animal words (these could be used in alternate versions of The Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly). Sample answers: cat, dog, bird, zebra, horse, fish, whale, dinosaur.

Bobby Darin performed the song in duet with 8-year-old Charlene Wong on an episode of The Bobby Darin Show in March 1973. [16] [17] There was an old who swallowed a fly tells a story of just that, an elderly women whom swallows a fly. She attempts to solve the problem by swallowing a spider to swallow the fly, but is once again left with an animal inside her. The women then continues to swallow different types of animals in attempts to solve her horrendous appetite, until the size of the animals get so ridiculous the women literally dies. Although the woman does die the poem is playful, and with such arrhythmic rhyme scheme one cant help but sing along. Some might remember that each verse traditionally ends with "I don't know why she swallowed that fly. Perhaps she'll die!" The Colandro version is much less dark, ending each verse with "She won't say why!" instead. The song ends when she coughs up all the animals ("her new friends") after ingesting the cow. The horse of the traditional rhyme (which usually kills her) is absent.

Use the list of spelling words from The Old Lady and the Fly to answer simple questions. Words: old, lady swallow, fly, spider, bird, cat, dog, cow, horse. Or go to the answers. Use the word bank to find synonyms of words from The Lady Who Swallowed a Fly story. Words: woman/lady, old/aged, hog/pig, swallow/consume, wriggle/jiggle, absurd/silly, feline/cat, dog/mutt, pig/hog, expire/die. Or go to the answers. Write a sentence for each of The Lady and the Fly story spelling words. Words: lady, swallow, fly, don't, know, why, she, spider, bird, cat. The song was performed by Judy Collins and Statler and Waldorf with shadow puppets, on a 1977 episode of The Muppet Show. [18] [19]