The Fly Over the Pond

Name: The Fly Over the Pond
Author: Maria Daadouch

by Maria Daadouch

Ages 3–65 min readEasy First ReadsFree to read

Learn how each creature fits into life cycle.

A silly, circular gobble-up rhyme that makes little ones laugh and beg to chant it again, while quietly showing how every creature in nature is connected.

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Questions to talk about together

The little fly ends up eating the great big hawk — did that make you giggle?
Can you remember the order of who ate whom, all the way from the fly to the bear?
Why do you think the story circles right back to the fly over the pond?

The Fly Over the Pond

Questions to talk about together

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