EE and EA

Seriously? EE and EA together? For my firsties?  All in a 4 day week? Our basal is NUTS, but they didn't ask me to write it.  They just want me to teach it--and  have my students Master it so I can assess them on Friday?  WOWSA!  I know that some words they just have to memorize, so I will get off my little soap box because a girl's gotta do what she's told to do.  So here's how I plan on implementing it into my classroom. 

I'm not doing my regular picture sorts. We're going to work on the word this week.  The need to recognize the pattern.  My main focus will be reading the word, recognizing the "chunk".  We will be singing a LOT this week.  You know---we will sing green to the tune of Row, Row, Row your boat, and practice singing seat to Oh My Darlin'.  My students will think I need a recording contract by the time this week is over.  They don't know how lucky they are-- ;)

We use the Phonics Dance in my classroom, so there's a little blurb of the phonics dance on both worksheets.  I think these will be a good word fluency activity for my kiddos too.

Here's also a little sorting activity. You can click the picture to grab you a copy.

Also, if you missed out on yesterday's post--I'm having a giveaway.  You could win this great product in  an e-book form (which is super awesome because you can pull them up on your computer and do them together as a warm-up) 

You can click the picture to head to the post to see how to win! :)