Every Child Ready to Read: Play to Learn!

• Children learn how to express themselves, the meaning of words, and other early literacy skills by playing.

• Provide inexpensive props like large boxes, old clothes for dress up, empty food containers, paper shopping bags, and empty paper towel rolls. Make sock, paper bags, or stick puppets and encourage your child to act out a story.

• Through play, children realize that one thing can stand for another. This also helps children understand that written words stand for real objects and experiences.

• There are many book versions of the old song, I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly. For Thanksgiving, have fun with I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie by Alison Jackson. The words are on the back if you want to sing it with your child. Encourage your child to color the lady and add some silly foods that she might eat. Your child might add some foods not in the story—that’s great—just have fun playing with words and with the story.

I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a……

 

I KNOW AN OLD LADY WHO SWALLOWED A PIE

“I know an old lady who swallowed a pie,
A Thanksgiving pie, which was really too dry,
Perhaps she’ll die

I know an old lady who swallowed some cider,
that rumbled and mumbled and grumbled inside her,
She swallowed the cider to moisten the pie,
The Thanksgiving pie, which was really too dry
Perhaps she’ll die

I know an old lady who swallowed a roll
Just swallowed it whole – the entire roll!
She swallowed the roll to go with the cider
that rumbled and mumbled and grumbled inside her,
She swallowed the cider to moisten the pie,
The Thanksgiving pie, which was really too dry
Perhaps she’ll die

I know an old lady who swallowed a squash
Oh my gosh, a fat yellow squash
she swallowed the squash to go with the roll
She swallowed the roll to go with the cider
that rumbled and mumbled and grumbled inside her,
She swallowed the cider to moisten the pie,
The Thanksgiving pie, which was really too dry
Perhaps she’ll die

I know an old lady who swallowed a saladShe was looking quite pallid from eating that salad!
She swallowed the salad to go with the squash
she swallowed the squash to go with the roll
She swallowed the roll to go with the cider
that rumbled and mumbled and grumbled inside her,
She swallowed the cider to moisten the pie,
The Thanksgiving pie, which was really too dry
Perhaps she’ll die

I know an old lady who swallowed a turkey
her future looked murky after that turkey!
she swallowed the turkey to go with the salad
She swallowed the salad to go with the squash
she swallowed the squash to go with the roll
She swallowed the roll to go with the cider
that rumbled and mumbled and grumbled inside her,
She swallowed the cider to moisten the pie,
The Thanksgiving pie, which was really too dry
Perhaps she’ll die

I know an old lady who swallowed a pot
I kid you not – she swallowed a pot
she swallowed the pot to go with the turkey
she swallowed the turkey to go with the salad
She swallowed the salad to go with the squash
she swallowed the squash to go with the roll
She swallowed the roll to go with the cider
that rumbled and mumbled and grumbled inside her,
She swallowed the cider to moisten the pie,
The Thanksgiving pie, which was really too dry
Perhaps she’ll die

I know an old lady who swallowed a cakefor goodness sake, a ten-layer cake
she swallowed the cake to go with the pot
she swallowed the pot to go with the turkey
she swallowed the turkey to go with the salad
She swallowed the salad to go with the squash
she swallowed the squash to go with the roll
She swallowed the roll to go with the cider
that rumbled and mumbled and grumbled inside her,
She swallowed the cider to moisten the pie,
The Thanksgiving pie, which was really too dry
Perhaps she’ll die!

I know an old lady who swallowed some bread…
I’m full she said.”

From Story-Time Felts: Fun Activities for Kids. http://www.fun-activities-for-kids.com/thanksgiving-pie-poem/