Five senses: Taste

What a "Sense"-sational week!
 Learning about our five senses was so much fun. We ended our week exploring our sense of taste. What better, than a science experiment.

 

Science Experiment

 

Found this yummy idea on pinterest.

Hi, I'm Nathalie and I'm a pintrest addict :)

 

Our sorbet flavors ( dairy allergies in my class)

I had them concentrate on their sense of taste, by closing their eyes.

 

I would encourage them by saying, " close your eyes, use your sense of taste. Move your tongue around, is the flavor sweet, sour, bitter?  Focus and help your brain figure out the flavor by using your sense of taste"

I split my kids up into 3 groups. I was lucky and had a parent helper and an aid.

Some flavors they liked, and some they didn't

I would have them guess the flavor and then "drum roll" as I revealed the mystery flavor.

 

ENJOY HAVE A GREAT DAY!

 

 

Five Senses: Smell

Using our sense of smell to understand the world around us

Art

Painting with spices and kool-aid

Today, I used my sense of smell.

beautiful painting from my kids.

Language Arts

We wrote our letter and number of the week, drew and traced in scented markers.

Science experiment

 How our sense of smell communicates with our brain

Materials: cup, foil, scents of your choice. I only did 7.

7 scents : orange, chocolate candy, lemon extract, mint, grape fresh baked cookie, pumpkin spice

He guessed right and wanted to take a look

GUESS THAT SMELL...

Five Senses: Touch

Language arts:

 

 

Vocabulary builder: hard, soft, firm, rough, smooth, slimy, squishy, fuzzy, wet, sticky...

  

Math

Sorting Soft vs. hard

 

 SCIENCE

Taking a poll. Soft or hard?

 

Before...

AFTER

Sensory table: floral beads. I bought a pack at the 99cent Store.

 

SENORY PRESCHOOL CENTER

Fine motor activity *Sorting*

 

Science 

Mrs. Nathalie's Mystery Box

Using only their sense of touch to guess what's inside

 

Items: silverware, pencil, crayon, shapes, ball, sponge...

 

ART 

This is what I use to...

Mr. Potato Head art project 

Color, cut then paste

 

I found this free template/idea on http://lessonplanningwithme.blogspot.com 

 

Reviewing our five senses: seeing, hearing, touching, smelling and tasting

 

 

PAINT SLIME 

PAINT SLIME

Five Senses: Hear

Discovering Sound

 

GUESS THAT SOUND!
video

Match that Sound

The kids had to find the matching sound. Here are a few things I used to make them: quarters, wood beads, rice, plastic beads. I made a few variations with the same materials to manipulate the sounds

Prep. time 5 mins

 

 

 Music Time

Exploring different instruments and the sounds they make.

Language Arts

Leap frog Letter Sounds

 

 

 DANCE TIME

 

 

 

 

Critical Thinking

video

 

 

 

 

 

 

Five Senses: Sight

Exploring Sight
video

 

To introduce what the five senses are and what they are used for, I started circle time with this short song/video clip.

 

 

GAME: I SPY

I spy with my little eye, something smooth, bouncy and red. 

What am I?

 

We played I Spy outside and as well as indoors.

 

GAME: WHAT'S MISSING?

This was a spin off of I spy

TRAY full of items

Have the kids close their eyes. Take an item and hide it, then let them guess. Make it harder by adding more objects to your tray.

After a few tries I had the children take turns, taking something and having them ask their classmates "What's Missing?"

 

They LOVED taking turns.

 

We also made glasses to emphasize that we use our eyes to see things around us.

 

Look and find books

 

Matching worksheet. My kids love dry erase markers, so whenever possible I use these clear sheets.

I found this worksheet on Education.com They have so many FREE worksheets for each sense.

 

Language Arts

video

Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See (song)

 

Art

Draw what you see: self-portrait

 

Five Senses: Touch

Exploring TOUCH:

 

                                               Sand paper                                 Velvet

Colorful rice

"FURRY"

"Fuzzy"

Floral water beads were their favorite.

I hid shapes and different objects inside CLEAN socks and had the children use their senses to guess what was inside.