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In this take on the well-known cumulative rhyme, a teacher inadvertently swallows a flea, then follows it with an assortment of classroom pets while her students look on in surprise.
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Carolrhoda Books ® (2008), Edition: Library Binding, 32 pages
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LibraryThing member StephanieWhite
In this modern fantasy story, the teacher eats all the class pets. It is a cumulative story which children will learn the words to quickly.
This is a boy friendly book because it has the gross factor. On several pages, the teacher's expressions are a bit nauseating. As usual, I love Stephen Gammel's
In the classroom, I would point out the rhyming words in the story. I would also put together a thematic unit on I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly books.
This is a boy friendly book because it has the gross factor. On several pages, the teacher's expressions are a bit nauseating. As usual, I love Stephen Gammel's
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colorful illustration style.In the classroom, I would point out the rhyming words in the story. I would also put together a thematic unit on I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly books.
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LibraryThing member coolabby
It was funny, crazy, and silly
LibraryThing member jemilie
SUMMARY:
This is a fun, very creative,rhyming picture book about children using their imagination and creating a new sing along for "There was an Old Lady". They used the pets in the classroom to show a food web. In other words, they showed how each animal eats the other and at the same time using
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I love this book very much. I have always loved that rhythm and used it in almost all the classes I have taught. The pictures stand out. This book is appropiate for first and second grade level. The boys in the class would love this book very much because of the animals and the way they were eaten and by whom.
CLASSROOM:
The teacher can use a big book so that children can read as a whole class and students will try to find the rhyming words.
They can also have chorale speaking. A student will use the desk as drums, another a glass bottle and stick, clapping, humming, different other forms of expressions whilst the others will recite the story to make an enjoyable fun learning activity.
This is a fun, very creative,rhyming picture book about children using their imagination and creating a new sing along for "There was an Old Lady". They used the pets in the classroom to show a food web. In other words, they showed how each animal eats the other and at the same time using
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their class teacher as the main source to make the story more effective.Personal:
I love this book very much. I have always loved that rhythm and used it in almost all the classes I have taught. The pictures stand out. This book is appropiate for first and second grade level. The boys in the class would love this book very much because of the animals and the way they were eaten and by whom.
CLASSROOM:
The teacher can use a big book so that children can read as a whole class and students will try to find the rhyming words.
They can also have chorale speaking. A student will use the desk as drums, another a glass bottle and stick, clapping, humming, different other forms of expressions whilst the others will recite the story to make an enjoyable fun learning activity.
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LibraryThing member maeganpollard
In this book, an old teacher ate all kinds of nasty bugs,snakes, and lizards. All the kids couldn't believe she would actually eat all those things. She ate them in order from smallest to largest. At the end of the book the teacher had eaten all the class pets and the only things left to eat were
I think it's kind of funny that she eats all of those things because my grandma teases my kids all the time about eating bugs, and they believe her. My 3 year old swears she really does eat the bugs, and she says memaw is so gross.
In the classroom we could point out all the rhyming words and see if we could come up with any more. We could also make a chart to see what of insects we think people really eat and what they do not really eat.
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the kids. The kids thought she was going to eat them as well but she doesn't.I think it's kind of funny that she eats all of those things because my grandma teases my kids all the time about eating bugs, and they believe her. My 3 year old swears she really does eat the bugs, and she says memaw is so gross.
In the classroom we could point out all the rhyming words and see if we could come up with any more. We could also make a chart to see what of insects we think people really eat and what they do not really eat.
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LibraryThing member AngMarWilson
This book is about a teacher who swallowed all the class pets. The students saw everything and were totally astonished and thought that the teacher would end up eating one of them. It all started when she accidentally swallowed something very small and just kept swallowing something bigger to
I thought this book was really great. The illustrations were absolutely fabulous. This book would fun to read to my class during the first few weeks. First impression on a teacher! =)
I would have my students do an art project. I would have them use color pencils(like in the book) and draw a picture of their pet, if they had one. I would also start a class discussion of what kind of class pet we should have and why we should have that kind of pet.
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gobble up the last thing she swallowed.I thought this book was really great. The illustrations were absolutely fabulous. This book would fun to read to my class during the first few weeks. First impression on a teacher! =)
I would have my students do an art project. I would have them use color pencils(like in the book) and draw a picture of their pet, if they had one. I would also start a class discussion of what kind of class pet we should have and why we should have that kind of pet.
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LibraryThing member lisa_tugmon
This book is about a teacher who is seen eating insects, bugs, and other animals by some students outside her window. She starts out eating a flea, then a spider, then a fish, then a rat, then a snake, and then a lizard. The children then are afraid that she will eat them, but she doesn't!
This book
Classroom Extension #1: Make a collage of all of the things the teacher ate. Have the children go through magazines and cut out pictures of animals, bugs, or other fun and gross things and paste them on a poster board making a collage of everything that the teacher ate.
Classroom Extension #2: Have your class create their own story that follows the same pattern as this story. The teacher should start out saying "I know an old lady who swallowed a..." and each child would be able to fill in their own items/animals. Have the first child start out with something small and as the story goes have each child state something bigger than what the last student said. If you wanted to, you could make a book out of it by having the children eaither draw pictures of the item they choose or cut it out of a magazine and paste it on construction paper and then bind all of the children's pages together.
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is one of my favorites. It has a great gross factor. Children love the building up of this book and of course they get a kick out of the gross factor appeal that it offers. The pictures a done by Stephen Gammell. He uses lots of colors and is very well known for his great illustrations.Classroom Extension #1: Make a collage of all of the things the teacher ate. Have the children go through magazines and cut out pictures of animals, bugs, or other fun and gross things and paste them on a poster board making a collage of everything that the teacher ate.
Classroom Extension #2: Have your class create their own story that follows the same pattern as this story. The teacher should start out saying "I know an old lady who swallowed a..." and each child would be able to fill in their own items/animals. Have the first child start out with something small and as the story goes have each child state something bigger than what the last student said. If you wanted to, you could make a book out of it by having the children eaither draw pictures of the item they choose or cut it out of a magazine and paste it on construction paper and then bind all of the children's pages together.
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LibraryThing member SaundraShaw
I read this book to the first graders I was reading to. They really enjoyed it also it was quite gruesome because she swallowed a flea and many other animals and bugs to kill each other. They really enjoyed the end of the book when they thought she was about to eat one of the children in her
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LibraryThing member lquilter
Honestly I found this kind of disturbing, and I have no idea what my 2.5yo thought of it. The original ("I know an old lady who swallowed a fly") gets *so* absurd (swallowing a cow, a horse, etc.) that it's not as disturbing. But here it's a teacher swallowing classroom pets, that are, actually,
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swallowable (snake, spider, lizard). So, probably brilliant for someone, but for me, umm, ick. Show Less
LibraryThing member KaleyHarper
Summary:
A retelling of the Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly. Miss Bindley swallowed a flea. She then eats a spider to catch the flea, followed by a fish to eat the spider, and then she ate a rat, a snake, a lizard, and then a child. At the end of the book, she died.
Personal:
I'm not crazy about this
Classroom Extension:
1. I would have the kids draw a picture of everything that the old teacher ate. After they created their masterpiece, I would hang them around the room.
2. My students would write their own version to the story and act it out.
A retelling of the Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly. Miss Bindley swallowed a flea. She then eats a spider to catch the flea, followed by a fish to eat the spider, and then she ate a rat, a snake, a lizard, and then a child. At the end of the book, she died.
Personal:
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book because of the end. I would have a hard time reading this story to my students because a woman swallowed a child.Classroom Extension:
1. I would have the kids draw a picture of everything that the old teacher ate. After they created their masterpiece, I would hang them around the room.
2. My students would write their own version to the story and act it out.
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LibraryThing member shanda1021
Summary:
This is a funny book about a teacher who ate a flea. She, then, had to eat all sorts of other things to try to get to the flea. In the end, the children are worried that she will eat a student but she doesn't.
Personal Reaction:
I think this is a great book because it is silly and sometimes
Classroom Extensions:
1. I would have the kids draw pictures of what all she ate and make a fun day out of it.
2. I think it would be a good book to read at the end of a gloomy day as it is a really fun and silly book.
This is a funny book about a teacher who ate a flea. She, then, had to eat all sorts of other things to try to get to the flea. In the end, the children are worried that she will eat a student but she doesn't.
Personal Reaction:
I think this is a great book because it is silly and sometimes
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we all need a little bit of silliness in our lives.Classroom Extensions:
1. I would have the kids draw pictures of what all she ate and make a fun day out of it.
2. I think it would be a good book to read at the end of a gloomy day as it is a really fun and silly book.
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LibraryThing member JeraSullivan
Summary:
There is a teacher who has swallowed a flea. As the students watch she begins to swallow all of the classroom pets one by one so that each one can eat the last pet that was swallowed. By the end of the book the teacher begins to look over the students and they wonder if it could be possible
Personal Reaction:
I really enjoyed this book! It was a silly to describe a teacher doing something that teachers would not normally do.
I believe children would have fun reading it. The book had great illustrations to describe the scene that was going on each time she swallowed one of the class pets.
Classroom Extension Ideas:
1. This book could be used as a good read along or sing along. It would catch the children's attention and involve them more in the story.
2. This book could be read to children if they was going to get their own classroom pet for the year.
There is a teacher who has swallowed a flea. As the students watch she begins to swallow all of the classroom pets one by one so that each one can eat the last pet that was swallowed. By the end of the book the teacher begins to look over the students and they wonder if it could be possible
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that she would try to swallow one of them. Personal Reaction:
I really enjoyed this book! It was a silly to describe a teacher doing something that teachers would not normally do.
I believe children would have fun reading it. The book had great illustrations to describe the scene that was going on each time she swallowed one of the class pets.
Classroom Extension Ideas:
1. This book could be used as a good read along or sing along. It would catch the children's attention and involve them more in the story.
2. This book could be read to children if they was going to get their own classroom pet for the year.
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LibraryThing member Olisia
This book was really fun to read. It was a great new verion of the song There Was An Old Lady Who Swollowed A Fly.
LibraryThing member Brooklynn1992
Summary: There was a teacher who swallowed a flea. She keeps swallowing all the classroom pets to try and get the one before that out. The students are shocked by what they see. By the end of the story the students see that the teacher is looking at them and get a little worried that she is going
Personal Reaction: This book was really cute and had lots of fun pictures and colors. It easily grabs the readers attention which is good for younger students.
Classroom Extension Ideas:
1. This book has a lot of repetitive lines so you could have the class read and say aloud the repetitive lines. This would get them more invovled in the story.
2. After reading the story you can have the kids draw a picture of the teacher with all the class pets and let them have their own illustration of the story.
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to eat them, but she quickly lets them know that she will not eat them.Personal Reaction: This book was really cute and had lots of fun pictures and colors. It easily grabs the readers attention which is good for younger students.
Classroom Extension Ideas:
1. This book has a lot of repetitive lines so you could have the class read and say aloud the repetitive lines. This would get them more invovled in the story.
2. After reading the story you can have the kids draw a picture of the teacher with all the class pets and let them have their own illustration of the story.
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LibraryThing member missbrandysue
Miss Bindley swallows a flea that fell into her tea and then begins eating all of the class pets to eat each other. In the old-fashioned way of "I know an old lady who swallowed a fly.." the book is written just the same.
The illustrations are very well done but it made me a bit sick to my stomach
Cute for lower elementary students. Would be fun to do with a Swallowing pattern book study.
The illustrations are very well done but it made me a bit sick to my stomach
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in the way they are well done but very ... Tim Burton-esque if you ask me.Cute for lower elementary students. Would be fun to do with a Swallowing pattern book study.
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LibraryThing member JaceySteed
Summery: A teacher tells her class that since it will be a long weekend she is going to take the class pets home. The class goes to her house to check on the pets. While they are spying on her they see a sight they will never forget.
Personal Review: This book I think is for kindergarten to about
Class Ext. Ideas: 1. My first idea for the classroom is to connect this book with the food chain section of the science book. After talking about what a food chain is I would have my kids make their own food chain and share them with the class.
2. After reading this book I could have my kids write out what they would do if they saw me eating the class pets and draw a picture of their favortie part in the book.
Personal Review: This book I think is for kindergarten to about
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3rd grade. Children will get a kick out of all the crazy things the teacher does with the class pets. I would really like to have this book in my class library so when i'm wanting to read something easy and funny i'll have that book right there.Class Ext. Ideas: 1. My first idea for the classroom is to connect this book with the food chain section of the science book. After talking about what a food chain is I would have my kids make their own food chain and share them with the class.
2. After reading this book I could have my kids write out what they would do if they saw me eating the class pets and draw a picture of their favortie part in the book.
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LibraryThing member AlyssaSwiderski
Summary:
Mrs. Bindley is a teacher, a strange teacher. Mrs. Bindley swallows a flea. Since she swallows the flea, she swallows a series of other things to try to get the flea. The students worry that she will swallow one of them, which she does not.
Personal Reaction:
This is really silly little story
Classroom Extensions:
I would use this story on a day that I wanted to have fun with my students. I would bring gummy bugs to enjoy with the kids while reading the book. I would also have the students draw pictures of the different things that Mrs. Bindley ate.
Mrs. Bindley is a teacher, a strange teacher. Mrs. Bindley swallows a flea. Since she swallows the flea, she swallows a series of other things to try to get the flea. The students worry that she will swallow one of them, which she does not.
Personal Reaction:
This is really silly little story
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that children will love. I used to love the "hole in the log in the bottom of the sea" type of stories when I was younger. I also like that children would love this story because of the repetition and "gross-factor".Classroom Extensions:
I would use this story on a day that I wanted to have fun with my students. I would bring gummy bugs to enjoy with the kids while reading the book. I would also have the students draw pictures of the different things that Mrs. Bindley ate.
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LibraryThing member shanetia
Summary:
This book is about a teacher named Mrs. Bindley. Mrs. Bindley swallowed a flea, then swallows a series of other critters in order to get rid of the flea. The students were worried that she would eventually try to swallow one of them.
Personal Reaction:
All I can say is, this book is
Classroom Extension:
1. I would bring gummies to class that resembles some of critters that Mrs. Bindley gobbled. While the students and I enjoy our treats, we would have a class discussion about some of the funny parts in the story.
2. I would have each student make a clay sculpture of one of the critters that Mrs. Bindley consumed.
This book is about a teacher named Mrs. Bindley. Mrs. Bindley swallowed a flea, then swallows a series of other critters in order to get rid of the flea. The students were worried that she would eventually try to swallow one of them.
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All I can say is, this book is
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hilarious. I think this book would be pretty entertaining to a group of third or fourth graders. The pictures were comical, which I believe the students would get a kick out of that alone. I have to get this book to read to my children. Love it!Classroom Extension:
1. I would bring gummies to class that resembles some of critters that Mrs. Bindley gobbled. While the students and I enjoy our treats, we would have a class discussion about some of the funny parts in the story.
2. I would have each student make a clay sculpture of one of the critters that Mrs. Bindley consumed.
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LibraryThing member kdirks1
The pictures and story are wild and hilarious. I love Steven Gammell's use of color and hidden words incorporated throughout the book in the art work. One could stare at his art for hours finding hidden elements. I like the idea behind the story line, however it is a bit exhausting and repetitive
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to read aloud. I don't think I would personally like to own this book, due to the fact the pictures are enticing and it would be requested to be read constantly. Show Less
LibraryThing member Jenuhsis
Summary: This book is about a teacher who swallows a flea and then swallows other things to get rid of the things she swallows. Her students are stunned by everything that she swallows, and wonders if it is possible to swallow what she does.
Personal Reaction: I would be one of the kids that would
Classroom Extension: The class could draw a big belly and draw different things that are weird to swallow, and then describe the different objects they made their teacher swallow. You could also use this story to teach kids that there are certain things you can and can not swallow.
Personal Reaction: I would be one of the kids that would
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be really shocked if my teacher starts swallowing the class pets. This book is kind of gross, but kids love this kind of stuff. I know I would be laughing or saying yucky if my teacher started swallowing pets. Classroom Extension: The class could draw a big belly and draw different things that are weird to swallow, and then describe the different objects they made their teacher swallow. You could also use this story to teach kids that there are certain things you can and can not swallow.
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LibraryThing member MataSoolua
Summary:
"I Know an Old Teacher" is a story of an old teacher who eats lots of different animals. The story all starts with a flea that fell in her tea, which lead to eating a spider, fish, rat, snake, and lastly their classroom lizard Lizzle. The story ends with the old teacher saying that she will
Personal Reaction:
This picture book has great repetition and also kinda grossed me out. (Just Joking) The only animal that was wierd was the rat and how it looked going into the old teacher's mouth. I would totally read this out loud to kids.
Classroom Extension:
If the school was ever gonna make a trip to the zoo, I would read this to my students as a introduction to getting ready to go to the zoo. I would then tell my students that we will be seeing so many other great animials. Also, I would use this book as an halloween book.
"I Know an Old Teacher" is a story of an old teacher who eats lots of different animals. The story all starts with a flea that fell in her tea, which lead to eating a spider, fish, rat, snake, and lastly their classroom lizard Lizzle. The story ends with the old teacher saying that she will
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never eat a student.Personal Reaction:
This picture book has great repetition and also kinda grossed me out. (Just Joking) The only animal that was wierd was the rat and how it looked going into the old teacher's mouth. I would totally read this out loud to kids.
Classroom Extension:
If the school was ever gonna make a trip to the zoo, I would read this to my students as a introduction to getting ready to go to the zoo. I would then tell my students that we will be seeing so many other great animials. Also, I would use this book as an halloween book.
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LibraryThing member AliciaRollins
This is a fiction story that tells all these different silly things the teacher can eat such as a spider, fish, lizard, snake, etc. At the end of the book the students ask if she can eat a student. She replies no. I think this is a cute book that gets children over the fears of school and their
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teachers. The illustration was bright and colorful which I think is important in children's books. The pictures show the teacher with her hair sticking up on her head. I thought that was cute. I believe I will read this book to my students every year during the first week. It is definitely a good way to break the ice. I just wish the book was a little longer and maybe went into detail about the children being afraid or something. Show Less
LibraryThing member adaq
Honestly I found this kind of disturbing, and I have no idea what my 2.5yo thought of it. The original ("I know an old lady who swallowed a fly") gets *so* absurd (swallowing a cow, a horse, etc.) that it's not as disturbing. But here it's a teacher swallowing classroom pets, that are, actually,
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swallowable (snake, spider, lizard). So, probably brilliant for someone, but for me, umm, ick. Show Less
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
32 p.; 10.75 x 9 inches
ISBN
0822579847 / 9780822579847