This month in science, the K-Prep class has been learning about the 5 senses. They have been able to explore their senses with interactive experiments as well as fun, educational books and videos.
We first explored our sense of smell. The class was able to smell different jars and make predictions of what they thought each jar smelled like. The items were revealed at the end of the lesson! (Cinnamon sticks, Chocolate, lemons, oranges, mint leaves, garlic)
We learned about our taste buds and how different parts of the tongue are able to taste different things (bitter, salty, sweet, sour)! After completing the below chart, we were able to taste and compare some of these different foods.
We explored our sense of sight by closing our eyes and trying to draw a picture of a flower. We then opened our eyes to draw the same flower. We compared our drawings and saw how important it was to have our sense of sight! After this activity we used magnifying glasses and observed celery sticks. We discussed how an object’s looks can change, and we conducted an experiment! The students put celery sticks into glasses of water and added food coloring. They made some predictions of what would happen to the celery. Over the course of a few days, we saw how an object can change right in front of our eyes!
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For our sense of hearing, we played a matching game using plastic Easter eggs. Different objects were placed inside the Easter eggs. Each egg had one other matching pair in the basket. The students had to use great listening skills to match each egg with its identical sounding partner.
Our sense of touch was explored through a mystery box sensory lesson! Each child had a turn to blindly reach into a mystery box and describe what they felt inside. We came up with some great descriptive words! They could ultimately guess what they thought was in the mystery box.
