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Old Lady Who Swallowed a Rose! : Picture Cards for the Book There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Rose!

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ROSE CRAFT FOR THE STORY- ART ACTIVITY

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There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Rose by Lucille Colandro is a delightful book to share with preschoolers. The book is meant to be read with a good dose of humor as the old lady swallows the various items. Young kids will love reading and creating the items in the book with Wikki Stix! Re-telling the story with Wikki Stix and the printable sequencing cards is a wonderful way to encourage hands-on play, fine motor skills, and early literacy!

WHAT COMES NEXT? - Predictions and Reading

Purpose: To encourage kids to higher level thinking strategies when listening to a book.

Before reading There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Rose, have the children make verbal predictions about what they think the story is about. Invite the children to look at the book cover (front and back) then write down all the predictions the children give. While reading, stop several times and ask the children again what they think is happening in the book. The answers will differ slightly from the predictions at the beginning. Did any of the children predict what would happen at the end of the book? Prediction is a great strategy for engaging preschoolers in the story as well as encouraging them to think about what the author is doing through the text and how the book will end.

WIKKI STIX ACTIVITIES TO EXTEND LITERACY

Invite the children to create the various items in the book with Wikki Stix. The created items will allow a hands-on manipulative for playful retelling of the events of the book.

Materials needed: Red/White/Pink/Blue/Green Wikki Stix, scissors, and a small amount of glitter (any color).

ROSE - the rose can be made with 5 red Wikki Stix. Leave the 5 Wikki Stix strands together (do not pull apart) and set out on a table. Starting at one end, carefully roll all 5 strands together (jelly-roll style) to form the rose. The children can add a green stem and green Wikki Stix leaves to the rose if desired.

LACE - invite the children to twist 2-3 white Wikki Stix strands together to resemble the lace in the book.

GLITTER - have the children cut small pieces of any color of Wikki Stix. Note: Wikki Stix can be cut with safety scissors, but younger children will need assistance. Since Wikki Stix has a sticky outer coating, glitter will adhere to each of the small pieces. Simply sprinkle a little glitter over the cut pieces.

CANDY - set out Wikki Stix on a table and invite the children to create their own pieces of candy. In the photo above, one child made a peppermint from red/white spiraled Wikki Stix.

JEWEL - jewels can be made from any shape or color of Wikki Stix. In the photo above, we created a blue diamond shape design with Wikki Stix. If desired, draw a diamond shape on a separate piece of paper and have the kids trace the diamond with Wikki Stix. Once the children trace inside the basic outline, they can lift the Wikki Stix from the paper template. Older children may wish to trace around the diamond outline and fill-in the shape with additional Wikki Stix. After re-telling the story, our kids added a circular Wikki Stix strand to the back of their diamonds to make diamond "rings" to wear.

HEARTS - invite the children to use any color of Wikki Stix to create a basic heart shape. Some children may want to follow an outline. Draw a heart on an index card and invite the children to trace the heart with Wikki Stix. The Wikki Stix heart outline can then be lifted from the paper template. Older children may wish to fill in their heart with additional Wikki Stix.

CARD - the card can be made from 4-5 stands of Wikki Stix folded in half to resemble a book. If desired, the children can make decorations for the front or back of their Wikki Stix created book.

Set all of the Wikki Stix-created items out on a table or a tray and invite the children to re-tell the book. As the children become familiar with the story, they will LOVE re-telling the book over and over with the Wikki Stix items.

There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Rose Sequencing Activity

Extension Activity: Creating a number timeline for events

Materials needed: one story timeline printable linked here ( download the printable sequencing cards pdf file here) and scissors.

Invite the children to cut out the cards and sequence the cards according to the story's timeline of events - what item was introduced first, second, third, and so on. After the children are finished with the activity, read the book again and pause to note when each of the objects are introduced. The kids will have fun following along and will often shout-out the next object that will appear in the story!

There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Rose is a great book to read for a special Valentine's activity with preschoolers. The kids will have fun sequencing the story, re-telling the book with the Wikki Stix created items, and making predictions about how the book will end!

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Activities: There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Rose

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There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Rose by Lucille Colandro is a delightful book to share with preschoolers.

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ART ACTIVITY

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Over the holidays, I was working on creating a new art project for my class based on the Old Lady Who Swallowed a Rose. (They had the books and CD in the Scholastic order form this month so I was excited to grab those at a great price in preparation for all my fun learning activities.) So, I sat at my kitchen table to prep the art project, make the tracers, and assemble my old lady. My daughter/assistant HAD to help! And honestly, what fun is it to do art alone!?!

Here is the cheapo activity I made for you guys. (Only cheap in price, I promise!)

And here is my sweet baby's creation!

Honestly, the eyes freak me out a little bit, but she loves it and proudly displayed her art in the pantry door for us to see daily. I think it is totally sweet!

Mary Amoson, Sharing Kindergarten

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There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Rose Retelling Art

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Over the holidays, I was working on creating a new art project for my class based on the Old Lady Who Swallowed a Rose. (They had the books and CD in the Scholastic order form this month so I was excited to grab those at a great price in preparation for all my fun learning activities.)

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This post contains Amazon Affiliate links. I just finished my next installment of "The Old Lady..." series, just in time for planning February. I can't believe we are already seeing Valentine's Day activities going up everywhere, but SLPs are all a bunch of planners, aren't we?!

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There Was an Old Lady: There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Rose

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The familiar song gets a new twist in these silly energetic books. Explore classroom activities, puzzles, teacher resources and enrichment pdfs for this book.

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There was an old Lady who swallowed -Craft and Printable Pages

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Fun craft and printable worksheets to go along with the "There was an old lady who swallowed a..."books. Make learning fun!

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LIST OF BOOKS BY THE AUTHOR

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Books by Lucille Colandro (Author of There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bat!)

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Lucille Colandro has 37 books on Goodreads with 18962 ratings. Lucille Colandro's most popular book is There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bat!.

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SOME EXTRA SEQUENCING IDEAS

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Totschooling - Toddler, Preschool, Kindergarten Educational Printables

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This post contains affiliate links for your convenience.

The "Old Lady Who Swallowed" series of books are fun and silly stories that kids enjoy. Based on the nursery rhyme where an old lady swallowed a fly, the series has expanded to seasonal and holiday themes in which she swallows a pie, a bat, a bell, leaves, snow and more. I've created a set of matching and sequencing printables for kids to use while following along with these stories.

So far I've created matching and sequencing activities for 10 of the books in this series. I am planning on making a few more and adding them to this post.

The matching activities are great for toddlers. The images are in color and they are in random order, for the child to match as they listen to the story.

The sequencing activities are great for preschoolers and kindergartners. The sheets are in black and white and the child can cut out the pictures and glue them to their correct place in sequential order. They can also color the pictures.

Click on the links below to Download your Free Old Lady Who Swallowed Activities:

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old lady who swallowed... matching & sequencing printables

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Old Lady Who Swallowed... Matching & Sequencing Printables

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FREE printable matching and sequencing activities to go along with the book series Old Lady Who Swallowed..., including a fly, a pie, a bat, a bell, a shell, a chick, a rose, a clover, some leaves, some snow, some books. Great book activity for toddlers, preschool and kindergarten.

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I LOVE THIS ONE! I SHOULD HAVE PUT IT IN MY LESSON

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There was an old lady who swallowed a rose vocabulary

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There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Rose! 🌹

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HERE IS ANOTHER OPTION FOR A LESSON PLAN

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Lesson Plan #4754. There was an old lady

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Lesson Plans: There was an old lady (1-2, Reading/Writing)