Smell, taste, touch, see, and hear. Five senses used daily, that we often times take for granted. That's one reason that I love to teach this unit. So that we are reminded of how lucky we are to be able to utilize these senses multiple times a day.
We had fun with popcorn this week. I had a box that had the popcorn popper inside of it. I told them that we were going to use some of our senses to figure out what was in the box. I turned on the machine and they guessed vacuum right off when they heard the noise. But, as they started to smell it, they started to figure it was popcorn, and were even more sure when they could hear it starting to pop. I then took it out of the box, and we used our other two senses to touch and taste it, naturally! I also had the popper set up during center time so that they could watch it in action.
This 5 senses match up really helped the kids to see what things we do each day with our 5 senses!
For a sight and touch activity, we played with waterbeads. I try to incorporate these into a lesson each year because they are just so fun. They have the strangest texture. They are smooth, and wet, and squishy. They even bounce. We talked about empty and full, and transferred them from our sensory table to our light table. They are transparent, so it was fun to see the different look in both places.
Our writing center this week was our overhead and magnetic letters. We found each of the letters in our name, then placed them on the overhead and then traced them onto the wall.
We talked about how sound is made. We used balloons and rice to show how it bounces off of objects, and vibrates. They had a great time bouncing rice right off of the balloon. We also had some drums and other manipulative to see what would bounce when we made a lot of noise.
T is for tearing. One letter we talked about this week, was the letter T. We used our little hands to tear our paper into small pieces to decorate our letter T.
T is also for ten! We practiced spelling the word ten this week, and also used our magnetic wands and magnetic chips to form our number 10. When spelling words with your children, really enunciate each letter sound. That way they can see how each sound is blended together to form a word.
We practiced counting to 10 with our pegboard number mats. This is a great sight activity for those little ones that still don't recognize their numbers by sight because they can count the pegs if they aren't sure what number is showing.
We also had a whole table filled with different sensory activities. We had balloons filled with different textures that the kids squished and tried to guess what was inside. Some items were popcorn kernals, honey, sugar, honey, and water. We also had some other textured items such as the starfish you see below. We also had some candles they could smell, and many items they could touch.
We will continue to have computer rotation from time to time. This week we played a 5 senses game where the kids matched up a picture activity to what sense they used to do that activity.
We learned this 5 senses song, that you will hear us sing at the Christmas program!
The Five Senses Song
Tune: This Old Man
With my eyes, I can see
Robins nesting in a tree.
Chorus:
I see and hear, and smell, and taste, and touch.
With my senses I learn so much!
With my ears, I can hear
Soft and loud noises, oh so clear.
Chorus:
I see and hear, and smell, and taste, and touch.
With my senses I learn so much!
With my nose, I can smell
Cookies baking, oh so well.
Chorus:
I see and hear, and smell, and taste, and touch.
With my senses I learn so much!
With my mouth, I can taste
Donuts which are chocolate glazed.
Chorus:
I see and hear, and smell, and taste, and touch.
With my senses I learn so much!
With my hands, I can feel
Bunnies soft fur, oh so real.
Chorus:
I see and hear, and smell, and taste, and touch.
With my senses I learn so much!
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