eep When the night is long and you can't sleep, just lie in bed and count some sheep. ....•. ~~. . One sheep in a Jeep. . 2 ~ 1\ , 1 Two sheep in a traffic jam- BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! 3 ~..... .:'"@-~. ..... Three sheep sit and weep. 4 $." Four sheep dust and sweep. 5 / Five sheep visit Little Bo Peep. 6 J' r,"_ .. ( Six sheep in the ocean deep. 7 Seven sheep on a hill that's steep. 8 Eight sheep quietly creep. 9 ~.,,,,,,- ~f.""·,-_ .~?~( Nine sheep feeding chickens10 CHEEP! CHEEP! CHEEP! 11 () ---- -------( -, -------: Ten sheep fast asleep ... 12 . fr '\ l .:; , " 1 just like this boyshhh! Don't make a peep! 13 Listen to the riddle sentences. Add the right letter or letters to the -eep sound to finish each one. 1 Sometimes at night it is hard to 2 When falling asleep it helps to count eep. 3 It's fun to drive around in a _eep. When you honk a horn it makes a loud _eep. 5 14 Another word for cry is _eep. eep. Jack and Jill climbed a hill that was really _eep. 7 If it's time to clean, use a broom to eep. 8 Don't swim out that far, the water is too _eep! 9 These books are not for giving away. They are to _eep. 10 The sound a baby chick makes is a _eep. Now make up some new riddle sentences using - eep daad '0 I 'daa>1'6 'daap '8 'daaMs 'L 'daais '9 'daaM '<:; 'daaq 'h 'daar T 'daeus 'G 'daars 'I :SJ9MSUV eep Give a great holler, a cheer, a yell For all of the words that we can spell With an E, E, and P that make the sound -eep, You'll find it in jeep and sheep and sleep. Three little letters, that's all that we need To make a whole family of words to read! e 16 Make a list of other -eep words. Then use them in the cheer! Here are some quick and fun ways to use this story to help children learn the word family -eep. Explain to children that you are going to read a story that has many words with the -eep sound, made by the letters E, E, and P. All these words belong to a group called a word f