Fun! Fun! And More Fun!

     We had so much fun this week!  We've been working on All About Me and Five Senses this week. I wish I could have three or four more hands, so I can snap more pictures!  I also sometimes wish I could be cloned, so I can get everything accomplished!  Here are a few things that we did this week:

We made our heads for our Hokey Pokes books.  They had to tell me what color hair they had, and then they glued on their hair.  We then graphed whether we had short or long hair.  This idea is from here.  

We took our shoes off and sorted our shoes.  We sorted according to dress shoe, tennis shoe (laces or velcro), sandals, and loafers. :)

Then we graphed our shoes.  We completed a graph on paper after that.  I'm hoping to get it uploaded, but I'm having problems with Google docs!

Zero the Hero visited for the 10th day of school!  He read Ten Black Dots and counted to 10 with us!

Counting to ten Zero style!

Our special Zero snack.

We had Five Senses Centers today, so much fun!

Smelling Centers- We had six different smelling jars.  My super smart assistant painted baby food jars, so they could not see what was inside them!  We had picture clues for them to try to guess what each smell was.  Then they glued to match the picture.  Once again, I cannot get my docs to upload! GRRRRR

Sight Center-  One of my smartie pants :)  realized that not only was this a sight center, it was a touching center , as well!  They fingerpainted to mix colors together.

Hearing Center-  This was just like the Smell Center, except we had ten jars for them to guess what sounds they heard.

Tasting Center

We tasted baking chocolate (bitter), pretzels, (salty), sugar cookies (sweet), and lemons (sour).  They were so funny about the chocolate!  One of my boys said that was sneaky chocolate!  It's suppose to taste good, but it was horrible! Lol!

These Five Senses Hats are just too stinkin cute!  I stumbled across them, and we just had to make them!  This comes from Dr. Jean, and you can find it here.

Touch Center-  They had a Touch match board to complete.  They we glued objects down to demonstrate smooth, soft, bumpy, and rough.

Working in the hearing center

The smelling center

Tasting Center

I love when they taste the lemon! :)

Sight Center

This picture just makes me smile! :)

     We had a great week, and I'm looking forward to finishing up our All About Me and moving on to Families!  Have a great weekend!

Five Senses

Here are some of our activities that we did to go along with our Five Senses theme.

I found this little book at Kindergarten Nana.  It was exactly what I was looking for!  I did change it slightly, but I love it because it is simple and still gets the point across!

The first sense that we learned about was sight.  We also learned about the color of our eyes.  They colored a picture of an eye to match their eye color, and then we graphed our class eye color.  I don't think I have ever had so many blue eyes in one class!  I have this fabulous Dr. Seuss Cat in the Hat game that we used to demonstrate sight.  Unfortunately, I did not get a picture!  They are shown several different objects.  We then place them in the hat, and they have to try to remember what object they saw before I pull out.  They loved it!  I'll try to get a picture of it up next week.  I'm also going to let them play with it in the Science Center next week.

We then learned about hearing.  My bells were really small so we were not to put them on ribbon before putting them on the page.  Amazingly enough, you can still hear them jingle!

They loved the hearing game!  There were different objects with sounds inside the egg.  We shook the egg and tried to guess what the sound was.  I had my little cheat sheet, so I knew what the sounds were!  Some of the sounds that we had were: rice, sugar, bells, screws, rocks, shells, and small erasers.

Our smelling sense was a lot of fun!  We learned that we could smell good things and bad things.  We actually had one of our school vacuum cleaners motor burn out, so we were able to smell a really bad smell!  On our smell page, I sprayed some perfume on their flower.  It was quite cute because many of them said that it smelled just like me. :)

Here our are smelling jars.  Some of the smells that we had were: pine needles, cinnamon, garlic, lemon, pepper,  perfume, cocoa powder, and cloves.

I think everyone's favorite sense is taste!  My class loves to eat!

We tasted lemon-sour, unsweetened chocolate- bitter, pretzels-salty, and sugar cookie- sweet.  The favorite was definitely the cookie! I thought I had some pictures of them eating the lemon, but I guessed I was laughing so hard I missed it!  The unsweetened chocolate was pretty funny because they were expecting something sweet and it wasn't! 

I'm so frustrated with my camera!  I can see the pictures but cannot get them to upload.  I'm missing our touch page and our final project of Five Senses.  I'll also try to retake those pictures and put those up later.

Five Senses

      We had our Five Senses theme in February.  At the end of the theme, all of our four and five year classes celebrated by having a Five Senses Day.  They rotated classrooms for each one of the senses and had an activity in each class to go along with it.  It was a really fun day!

The Sound Room- They listened to different sounds and then held their paddle to  match the sound that they heard.  The paddles had pictures on them to match to the corresponding sound.

The Smell Room- They had covered containers filled with different smells (garlic, lemon, cinnamon, etc.) that they smelt, and then colored in the appropriate picture to match the smell.

Taste Room-  They had different items of food to taste (dark chocolate, pretzel, lemon, cookie, etc.) and then matched the picture on the tongue.

They also examined their tongues with mirrors.

Touch- They made Feely Caterpillars.  Each circle represented a different type of touch, smooth- aluminum foil, cotton-soft, sandpaper- rough, border- bumpy, and there was one other, but I can't remember! :)

I'm missing the pictures for the sight room!  They looked at objects through magnifying glasses and was able to look at slides under a microscope.  They also made small kaleidoscopes.  It was a lot of work, but it was a wonderful, learning experience!