State and Model the Objective
Tell the children that they will beat their feet down a street as they read and write words with the long e vowel, such as feet, meet, greet, street, sweet, and treat.

Literacy Activities

Move feet to a beat down a street

• Set up a pretend street with strips of paper, blocks, masking tape, or chalk.
• Have the children trace their feet on paper and place their paper feet along the street. 
• Let the children beat their own feet down the street to a beat.
• Chant the target text Beat Your Feet Down the Street (see below) with the children.

Meet and greet on a street

• Have the children write and pass out invitations that say “Meet and greet on the street.”
• Designate a sidewalk or walkway to be a pretend street and let the children use chalk to trace their feet along the street.
• Have the children follow the traced feet to meet and greet on the street.
• Comment on how neat it is to meet and greet on a street. 

Eat a treat on a sheet

• Tell the children that they can meet and eat a treat on a sheet. 
• Ask the children to make the sheet neat (smooth it out).
• Tell the children to take a seat on the sheet to get a treat to eat.
• Provide a real or pretend treat—a treat that is sweet or not sweet. 
• Say, “It is fun to meet and eat a treat on a sheet.”

 
Recognize two ways to write the long e (ee and ea)

• Involve the children in making a list of words that end in the spellings -eat or -eet.
• Place the words in two columns: -eet and -eat.

Write about meeting and greeting on a street

• Display the list of words ending in eet or eat.
• Ask the children to write about how they got to: 
  • Beat their feet down a street.
  • Meet and greet on the street. 
  • Take the street to a seat on a sheet
  • Sit on the sheet and eat a treat.