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I Know an Old Lady

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  • DOMAIN(S)
    Communication, Language, and Literacy (CLL)
  • INDICATOR(S)
    CLL5.4b
  • AGE GROUP(S)
    48-60 months

Make an old lady prop from a small, table-top trash can with a swing lid. Decorate the trash can to look like an old lady, complete with yarn hair and a print dress with an apron. Draw the facial features so that the swinging lid of the trashcan becomes the mouth. After reading The Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly by Simms Taback or one of the follow-up books, such as I Know An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie by Alison Jackson or There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Snow by Lucille Colandro, provide the children with assorted props to feed the old lady as they retell the story. This activity could be done in small group.  

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