Fun with Word Families

I just finished a big unit on Word Families!  We made a word family caterpillar:

I just had a caterpillar body part for each word family, which worked out well for the students!  They loved writing a word on the body!

We also used a TON of diecuts and made a fun Spring board under the White board!

We have -op butterflies, -ing ants, -an flowers, and assorted planters with flowers in them (it was for the end of the unit)!

Then we had a word family race (a great idea from a Phonemic Awareness book)!

Great fun with word families, and I know that my Kindergartners are able to pull chunks out now!  We're going to be starting poetry soon!