This week, we explored our five senses. We read books such as My Senses
and My Five Senses by Aliki.
To explore our sense of touch, we made
texture collages. We used things that felt soft like yarn (Pearl named her yarn
'nakie after her pet rubber snake), scratchy like sandpaper and bumpy like
corrugated cardboard. We also drew on sandpaper with crayons. Ellie used a lot
of colors. It feels different to draw on a scratchy surface than a smooth
surface like paper.
When talking about our sense of hearing, we took some
time to be SO quiet so we could hear the sounds of our school all around us. We
could hear children in the toddler room playing and some grownups talking and
when it was super quiet we could hear the air in the vents. (It's hard to
imagine so many wonderful 2, 3, and 4 year olds being SO quiet, isn't it?!)
To talk about our sense of sight, we talked about how
many things that we can see, we can also touch or hear or smell. Then we read a
story about something that we can only see. We read "It Looked Like Spilt
Milk." It is about a cloud! Then we painted cloud pictures of our own using
paint, shaving cream and glue all mixed up. We made our own beautiful cloud
pictures!
At snack time, we took the opportunity to talk about
taste. We had salty crackers and sweet fruit snacks. Yum, Yum!
When we talked about our sense of smell, we did something so
silly. We smelled our friends!!! Hee, hee, hee. It turned into a silly game of
a lot of P.U.ing followed by much giggling. So that was a silly success! We
also made some "smelly paints" out of grape drink mix and water. Neil said his
paints smelled "like black" and Soleil's paints smelled "like a hot dog!"
Our letter this week is D. We made dotty D's, dot pictures and dotted
dogs. The kids loved using Bingo marking pens for dot making. We sang the
Daddy Song (3 d's in daddy), read Hide and Seek, Duck, duckwalked (Dylan
K. has a great duck walk) and danced (Thanks Bodie for showing us all those
great moves!) So many fun activities to learn about the letter D. And we can't
forget that we have two Dylans in class and their names both start with D! We
love our Dylans! What a great first month of school we've had!
5 Senses
