What do you know about elephants?
Did you know that elephants' trunks are actually their noses? They use their trunks to smell, drink, and pull leaves from trees. They even use them as a snorkel when swimming underwater. Keep reading to find out more about elephants.
Time for a scavenger hunt, little letter detectives! Look on a cereal box, soup can, or any box of food. How many words can you find with the letter Ee? When you see the letter Ee, give the signal for Ellie Elephant and make the /e/ sound.
Now we want you to find the objects in the picture below that have the short /e/ sound. Name the object. Is the /e/ sound at the beginning of the word, or in the middle of the word?
Great work friends! Tomorrow we will read a poem about a red hen. Be thinking about words you can rhyme with red or hen.
