State and Model the Objective
The children will say “EEK!” when they feel surprised, scared, or creeped out and will read and write words with the long -ee vowel, such as bee, see, tree, feel, sweet, meet, and greet.
 
Literacy Activities
Keep or do not keep

• Read the word cards (found below) with the children and point out the -ee vowel.
• Separate the children into groups with a set of word cards that are face down.
• Tell the children to take turns picking up a word card, turning it face up, and reading it out loud.
• If the word card has the -ee vowel, tell the children to say “Keep!” and then to keep the card.
• If it doesn’t have the -ee vowel, tell the children to not keep the card and to discard it.

Take a peek

• Hold up the pictures of the mouse and cheese and the mouse hole cutout (all found below).
• Tell the children they will peek through their fingers to see what they can see.
• Allow the children to peek at the mouse and say, “EEK! Creepy!”
• Comment that the mouse is trying to seek cheese and words with -ee.  
• Let the children read words with the long ee and put them in the hole.
• Have the children take a peek at word cards through the mouse’s hole.

Hide and seek

• Cut out the pictures of the mouse and cheese and hide the cheese (found below).
• Tell the children they will play hide and seek and help the mouse find the cheese.
• Tell all the children to meet and greet the mouse and see that the mouse is not creepy.
• Tell the children to help seek the cheese for the mouse and say,  “Gee! I found the cheese.”
• Pretend to let the mouse eat the cheese and go to sleep.

More Practice
Read target words in a text

• Read the target text Sometimes I Say, “EEK!” (found below) to the children.
• Engage the children in reading the text with you.
• Read the target text again, fading support.
• Repeat with EEK! Keep Away from Me! (found below).

Write about the activity using target words and patterns

• Display target words on a word wall (e.g., mouse, creepy, creep, eek, sweet, see, feel, glee, meet, greet, flee, gee, sleep, keep, need, gee, peek, meet, greet, feel, tree, bee).
• Suggest ideas the children can write about, such as a time when they . . .
  • Got a peek at a mouse and wanted to seek, meet, and greet the mouse.
  • Saw a creepy mouse, yelled “Eek,” and wanted to flee.
  • Got a peek at a mouse: 
    • See a mouse creep along.
    • Peek to see the creepy mouse.
    • Play hide and seek with the mouse.
    • See that the mouse needs cheese. 
    • Seek cheese because the mouse needs cheese. 
    • Keep cheese out for the mouse.
    • Meet and greet the mouse.
    • See that the mouse is not creepy.   
    • Let the mouse eat and go to sleep.