Learning+with+Our+Senses

=Learning With Our Senses=

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 * The Fabulous Five - Our Senses on Discovery Education > [[file:Our Five Senses.pdf]] (worksheet to go with Discovery Education video)
 * David Smells by David Shannon
 * Images to view - colour, shape and size Food Towers, Cherry Tomatoes, Pepper and Cherry Tomatoes
 * Working in groups, have the students find a picture and using an overlay with a hole in it, show only part of the image to the other groups. Have the students use the shape, colour etc. to guess what the picture is. (There are examples in Chickadee or Highlights.) The students could also take their own pictures using a digital camera and have the others guess what the image is.
 * Seven Blind Mice by Ed Young (Video )

Listening

 * Smartboard/Promethean have sound clips in their files that can be played to have the students identify the source of the sound.
 * Play games to have the students guess whose voice they are hearing. Example: the voice on the announcements or having another student in the class come up behind a student and tell their favourite sound, or favourite flavour of ice cream etc.
 * You Can't Taste a Pickle With Your Ear - listen for rhymes
 * Listening game on Scholastic - identify the sounds

Reading

 * Rookie Read-About Health Series has books about Seeing, Smelling, Tasting, Hearing, Touching
 * Senses Level D at readinga-z.com

Representing

 * Make popcorn together. Talk together about the smell, sound, taste etc. Glue the popcorn on paper to make a picture. It can be the snow, clouds, etc.
 * Have the children draw (finger paint) with chocolate or butterscotch pudding. Do a shared writing experience about the feel, taste etc.

Speaking

 * Give each child a piece of gum. Have him/her tell his/her elbow buddy how the gum looks, feels, smells, what it sounds like, and LASTLY, how it tastes. Record the words.
 * Use a voice like someone else (tooth fairy, ghost, Santa, big bad wolf) to share feeling words or sound words etc.
 * Tell your elbow buddy a smell (or use another sense) that you like and dislike. The buddy then shares what he heard with the class.

Writing

 * I like to see..., I can smell... , I like the feel of ..., I hear... , A ... tastes ...
 * Teacher brings in unusual smells in a container and the students have to write This smells like a ...
 * Have the students write about an object of their choosing using all five of their senses to describe it. Have them read it aloud to have their classmates guess what it is.