My Five Senses

Hi Mom!
This week was our second week talking about our bodies. We focused this week on the Five Senses that we have. We can name them all by using a hand to point them out on our faces!
1- shake the hand you're pointing with (touch)
2- point to your eyes (sight)
3- point to your ears (hearing)
4- point to your nose (smell)
5- point to your mouth (taste)
We read A Surprise for Miguel (my take home book) and then made popcorn together, just like Miguel's dad did to surprise him. We used our 5 senses to experience the popcorn, just like Miguel did too! The best part was "tasting" the popcorn for our snack.

We did some counting activities with popcorn to practice number recognition and one to one correspondence. We worked a lot with numbers this week. I'm getting so good at recognizing each one and being able to count that many things out.

We talked about how our 5 senses help us to experience the world around us. But what would happen if we didn't have one of our senses? Ms. Marianne put blindfolds over our eyes and asked us to use our other 4 senses to try and figure out what each thing she handed us was. There was a pickle (bumpy), a tomato (squishy and smooth), a teaspoon of peanut butter (soft and tasty), some chocolate chips ("sharp" on one end and flat on the other) and a lemon (juicy and sour). The lemon was a surprise, and I didn't like the pickle much, but I loved the chocolate and the peanut butter!

We read (and got to act out!) Eric Carle's From Head to Toe and even participated in reading it with Ms. Marianne... "Can you do it? I can do it!" I love to hear the different voices that the animals have in that book when we read it. To continue being active, we got big drinks and then went for a walk to use our senses to experience the outdoors.

I drew things that I saw and things that I heard as we walked to the park and back. It was a windy day, and I heard wind chimes tinkling, the birds chirping and an airplane overhead. I saw a truck drive by and clouds racing by in the sky. I loved playing at the park for a few minutes before we headed back to talk about what we'd seen and heard.

 

On Thursday, we worked more with our Letter of the Week (Pp). We read Don Freeman's A Pocket for Corduroy and retold the story together with puzzle pieces of different scenes from the book. We talked about first, next, then, and last and putting things in order.

Then, because "pizza starts with /p/, we made paper pizzas where we counted out various "toppings" that corresponded to the number written on that slice of the pizza. I don't think I'd like to eat a pizza made of paper and beans, pasta and other small manipulatives, but I know I loved making the REAL pizzas later on!
We talked about the recipe we'd need to follow, and put the steps in sequential order to make sure we didn't do it wrong. Then it was time to spread the sauce, sprinkle the toppings and cheese, "bake" them in the microwave and then dig in! I'm glad pizza starts with P!

Next week is all about Cc- Caterpillars and the life cycle of a butterfly! We're also going to finish up our unit on the body by talking about how to take Care of them with eating a healthy diet and getting lots of exercise. It's going to be fun! 

Love,

Your Child

and

Ms. Marianne