Old Black Fly Unit Study

Matamoscas: The Fly Swatter Word Game

Old Black Fly Game

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In this game two teams face off in a relay style running up to to the board to swat the word called out by the teacher and then passing the fly swatter on to the next team member.

Variations:

1.Make this game easier by having the children swat the letters, numbers.

2. Swat the letters to spell the words.

3. Teacher calls out the definition, translation or antonym.

SWAT IT

Children take a fly swatter and swat the word (letter, numeral, etc.) as it is said in this rhyme:

There's a word I see.
Swat the word ____.
One, two, three!

A variation of this game can be played by dividing the class into two teams. Give one person from each team a fly swatter. Call out a word. The first person to "swat" the word wins a point for her team.

Matamoscas - Swat the Fly

Two teams face off to Swat the Words while learning a second language.

Sight Word Swat

Students build their sight word vocabulary through the usage of a game called Sight Word Swat. As the teacher says the word aloud twice, students are to swat the word on the game board

Housefly Behavior

eNaturalist::Friendly Fly?

We've all had insects land on our body and most/all of us find it irritating, to say the least. But unless you actually see an insect land, how does one know that a mosquito, for example, has landed on your arm? In most cases, the tiny hairs on our body "tell" us it's there!

Housefly Behavior

When they are not flying, flies continually preen themselves, cleaning their eyes with their forelegs and dusting off their legs by rubbing them together. They do this because most of their taste and smell receptors lie on the hair of their legs. -Wikipedia

Watch a fly resting on the windowsill.

Flies have a very highly-evolved evasion reaction which helps to ensure their survival. It is possible to confuse a fly's evasion system by swatting it with two objects simultaneously from different directions. The holes in a fly swatter minimize the air current that warns the fly as being hit, whilst reducing air resistance and increasing speed of the swat. - Wikipedia

Housefly Tag

Try this out by having one child be the housefly and another be the fly swatter. Now have two children be the fly swatters. Was it harder or easier for the fly to evade one or two fly swatters?

In 2008 it was discovered that a fly anticipates the approach of a threat, calculating the angle of attack, and alters its stance ready to make the most appropriate getaway. This evasive action, which allows the fly to jump away in the opposite direction, takes place within 200 ms. -Wikipedia

Old Black Fly Toilet Paper Tube

Wash Your Recycled Cans

Old Black Fly comes around when food is left out or when the garbage is not washed out well. Making this Fly from a recycled toilet paper tube can be used in conjunction with a unit on recycling and the need to clean all those tin cans and other containers before putting them in the recycling bin or Old Black Fly will be buzzin' around your house.

Reverse-psychology recycling

The [N]Zed Word October 27, 2008
The cost of trash in New Zealand and what to do with an empty toilet paper roll.

There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed Fly Center

Sequencing Activity

1. Color and laminate the pictures.
2. Write the names of the animals on the cards.
3. Children write the names of the animals that the Old Woman swallowed in the correct order.

There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed Fly

There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed Fly cut and paste project.

Old Black Fly Coloring Pages

House Fly and other Insect Coloring Pages

Free printable coloring pages for kids to download, print and color. These coloring sheets can also be used as clip art.

The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Child's Day, by Woods Hutchinson

Have you ever looked at a fly through a magnifying 108glass or under a microscope? If you haven't, try it sometime. You will see that his legs are covered with little hairs; and it is on these little hairs that the germs lodge. They are too small for you to see except with a very powerful glass; but scientists have proved that they are there, and they have found that there are always typhoid germs among them.

Fly in the Garbage

Color the fly, fish bones and other garbage.

House Flies are Fast

Old Black Fly Tag

Close your eyes and have someone else very gently touch the hairs on your arm or leg. This is the way that a house fly detects motion.

Now go out on the playground and play Old Black Fly Tag. One person is the fly swatter and the others are the flies. When a fly is tagged it becomes another fly swatter until all the flies are gone.

For the very young children you can play the Old Black Fly Tickle Game. Hold your baby in your lap and pretend that your finger is a fly. Make a buzzing sound and then have your fly land on all those tickle spots. Lots of giggling fun!

House Fly Facts

House Flies are hard to swat because they react to movement five times faster than humans do. Sensitive hairs on their bodies send data directly to the wings, so these flies can take off the instant motion is detected. In humans, the sensory data must usually first be processed by the brain.

BBC - Parenting - Play and do - Tickling games

Get your baby giggling with a gentle tickling game.

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