The 5 Senses

            Our five senses help us better explore the world around us.  We discovered we have been using our senses since we were born.  Now we are learning words to describe them.  We are learning to connect new vocabulary words to better explain what we experience.

 Feeling Textures

                                                                                                 

                                                                                             Making and Matching Sounds

Guessing Smells in Jars

Not so sure about garlic!

Looking, Listening, and Having Fun!

       Conversation with another student builds encouragement and confidence to learn.   Mrs. Bloom's class helped us make Five Sense stick puppets. We helped the puppets find pictures to match each sense.  We enjoyed sharing our favorite things to hear, touch, smell, taste and see.

                                                                

     

                                            

                                          

     Popcorn popping is a delicious and attention-grabbing way to explore the five senses.  We started by looking at and feeling the popcorn kernels before they were popped.  Then, the popcorn went into the air popper in the middle of the carpet and we saw it spinning around super fast.  We listed describing words on popcorn-shaped paper and placed them under the correct sense on our poster. We took a handful of the newly popped popcorn and described it using our five senses.   We wrote down these words to record our learning.  

"I see one popping out"

"I can hear the motor spinning the popcorn"

"I can smell the popcorn and really want to eat some"

"Look, they are so white on the brown paper"

 "It feels bumpy and dry"

"Oh I can feel the heat of the air" 

"I love popcorn because it tastes so yummy"

 Our popcorn chart is now a play station.  We colored and cut out pictures of things around us.  We sorted them into each popcorn box based on what sense we used the most.
We love sorting and resorting.....and doing it all over again!

Can you sense we had fun learning?