Our fingers and ears are very useful.

This week we learned that our skin has nerve endings. 

The nerve endings are touch receptors that send messages to our brain giving us important information about the world around us.  

One of the ways we explored 

 our sense of touch was through art.

Art develops creativity, imagination and self-esteem.

Art allows a child to share with us their thoughts, beliefs, and understandings of the world.

Through this collage activity, our friends are developing vocabulary, and expanding their conversations with their friends. 

Brexton: Glue is sticky.

Shoshi: String feels like string. The paper feels like paper.

Moshe: The pipe cleaner is scratchy.

Eli: It feels rough.

Evie: This one is different. It's soft.

Evan: The pompom is fluffy and the sponge is bouncy.

 

Shaving cream is always favorite in class. 

 It is a fantastic sensory experience with endless opportunities for imagination and learning.

Sensory play is unstructured and open-ended. 

At the same time, it provides language development

as our friends use descriptive words of their experience.
Brexton: It's tickly. 
Shoshi: It's soft and smooth.

Zoey: It is smooth and soft.

Moshe: It feels like a puff going up.
Evan: We can draw in it.

We used the touch receptors in our skin to help us sort different textures.

Providing a print-rich classroom environment exposes children to reading in a functional way. 

One aspect of a print-rich classroom is labeling.

 Labels help children recognize that words have meaning.

We explored our sense of hearing this week.

Morah Katie:Why is our sense of hearing important?

Moshe: We listen to all people in the whole entire world.

Morah Katie: What do we use to hear? 

Evan: Ears.

Evie: We listen with our ears.

Morah Katie: Sounds are all around us. What are your favorite sounds to hear? 

Evan: Music.

Moshe: Shows.

Shoshi: Listening to videos of Dora.

Zoey: Sounds in my house.

Morah Katie: How do your favorite sounds make you feel? 

Evan: Happy.

 We explored our sense of hearing through music.

We played freeze dance.

We listened to an audio book about an orchestra.

We played with musical instruments.

 

Next week we explore smells and tastes.