Our word family chunk for this week is -en.  At literacy centers, we worked on sorting short "e" and short "a" words, and reading the words to our learning buddies.  We also built "sight word" rockets (sight words are the words we know by "sight" and can read fast when we see them in our stories).  We also played a fun game called MELT.  The kids took turns choosing a card from the bag and reading the word on it.  If the "melt" card was chosen, the game was over and all the cards they collected had to go back in the bag.

We started taking down all of our winter projects (since Spring is just around the corner... :), and began talking about Valentine's Day.  We listened to a story and brainstormed words to describe Valentine's Day.  (Don't you think chocolate should go in all the boxes?!)

 We also did a heart weaving project...