Our senses

The five senses we as humans have are sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. When discussing these senses with students it can be fun to focus on each sense via this Mr. Potato Head template!It

On Fridays, I love to do some kind of craft with my kids. It’s so hard sometimes to squeeze in the cutesy, fun, developmentally appropriate lessons throughout the week, so I make it a priorit…

I'm super excited to begin our STEM Unit on the 5 Senses this next week! STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) is at the core of what I believe about good teaching. The only thing I would add is an "a" for the arts. But, being the musical/drama girl that I am, it will be added. This is the first unit I will be using from those developed for the OSPI website. Click HERE if you'd like to check them out. I attended a workshop during the Starting Strong Conference on STEM and…

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In this free printable worksheet students have to learn the five senses, The five senses are sight, taste, touch, hearing and smell

This week we are studying our 5 senses. I totally love the experiment we do with TOUCH because we get to play with shaving cream! Yeah!!!! We start off with a partner describing how things might feel: porcupine - "poky" (I am still laughing), rock - "hard," feather - "fluffy." BUT, then I show them the shaving cream. "Wow, really Mrs. Rucker!" Yep, but we have to do a little work first. Hahahah I gave them several objects to feel, and then we picked a word to describe it. We used a cotton…

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Five senses

This song is an engaging way for students to recall the 5 senses.

Learning about the five senses can be A LOT of fun! There are just SO MANY activities that can be done! On our lesson about the ears, we decided to create our own pair of LISTENING EARS!