Words with Special Meanings (for understanding only, not to be tested) Decomposer: animals that clean up (trash) environments (i.e., dead animals and decaying food). Disease: when a human or animal is sick. Germ: something you cannot see that can make you sick when it comes in contact with your body. Hypothesis (hypotheses, plural): a tentative explanation for a question that can be tested using experimentation. Immunization: an inoculation/shot to protect one from disease. Magnify: to make something look bigger than it actually is. Observe: to look at and pay special attention to what something does, what it looks like, and how it changes. Predict: to guess what you believe will happen. Bibliography Aardema, Verna. Half - a - Ball - of - Kenki: An Ashanti Tale. New York: Warner, 1979 Adams, Pam, retold by. There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly. UK: ChildÕs Play, 1975 Albright, Nancy T., retold by. I Know An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly. Orlando, FL: Moonlight - Cut & Paste Series, 1985 Ayelsworth, Jim. Old Black Fly. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1992 Bantock, Nick, retold by. There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly. New York: Viking Press, 1990 Barrett, Ethel. Smarty the Adventurous Fly. Frances Blankenbaker (Editor.) Venture, CA: Regal Books, 1989 Berger, Melvin. Germs Make Me Sick. New York: Harper and Row, 1985. Chambliss, Maxine, retold by. I Know An Old Lady. New York: Bantam Audio Cassette, 1987 Fischer-Nagel, Heiderose and Andreas. The Housefly. Minneapolis, MN: Carolrhoda Books, Inc., 1990 Kellogg, Steven. There Was An Old Woman. New York: Four Winds Press ,1984 Maclean, Moira, retold by. There Was An Old Woman. Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1990 OÕToole, Chrisopher. Discovering Flies. New York: The Bookwright Press, 1987 Patent, Dorothy Hinshaw. Germs! New York: Holiday House , 1983 Read to Yourself Series. There Was An Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly. Auburn, ME: Lady Bird Books, 1990 Rounds, Glen, retold by. I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly. New York: Holiday House, 1990 Steven, Wyllie, retold by. There Was An Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly. New York: Harper Children's Books, 1985 Stobbs, William. I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly. UK: Oxford University Press, 1987 Westcott, Nadine B. I Know An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1980 Winter, Paula. The Bear and the Fly. New York: Crown Publishers, 1976 Wood, Leslie. The Frog and the Fly. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987

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