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senses
By Em

We do the five senses after Christmas but here are some of the activities we did:
1)sight- played I spy, I made a guess who type game where I glued pictures of animals onto bristle board then the children would ask a question
about what they could see (ie. does it have wings) If it didn't I would use sticky notes to cover all the ones that did) and so on until they could guess it.
2)taste- tasted sweet, sour, salty foods, graphed our favourites and made lists of other foods in those categories.
3)touch- touched different textures things, made texture art, they drew a pictures and I provided materials

of all different textures to glue on, had a feely bag
4)smell (talked about good smells and bad smells. Had a center where I had six magerine containers with holes in the tops and things with distinct smells in them, the chidlren would smell it and try to write what they thought it was.
5)Hearing- played sound bingo, for homework we asked the children to make a musical instrument with the families and bring it to school, we had a parade and a band, we had string, horns, shakers, drums ect... it was so much fun.