Pre-K Use Their Senses!

Pre-K is discovering that they use their senses every day!  A lot of the time, they are using more than one sense! Over the past month, we have explored our sense of taste, smell and hearing.  

Oh how everyone loved taking the apple taste test!  We were seeing which color apple tasted the best.  The Pre-k classes realized that when they were tasting the apples, they also touched the apple (it was smooth) and smelled the apple (it smelled good).

Then we drew a picture of the apple that tested the best to us.

And then placed the apple picture on the graph.  Sometimes it was hard to choose which color tasted the best....so all three were chosen!

Looks like red tastes best for this class!

The mystery hearing jars were fun and a little tricky!  Shake the jar and match and the sound to the picture!

 The mystery smelling jars were delicious smelling!  Well, all of the jars smelled good except for the pepper!  That was spicy!

Everyone wants to do another taste test!  What would we taste? Pears and chocolate were some suggestions!

Pre-K Explores their Sense of Smell and Hearing!

Pre-K has been trying to match sounds to images!  Some sounds are quiet and others are a bit louder!

Then we tried to match the smells with the image!  That was fun!  All three classes really liked the smell of the mint and the orange.  The pepper corns though were a bit spicy smelling!

Pre-K Explores their Sense of Hearing!

We were so surprised that we could hear so many different sounds when we closed our eyes!  Sounds from the classroom next door, in the hallway and even from Carroll Park across the street! Then we started exploring the sounds in the classroom.

Matching the sound to the image.

Shaking the sound shaker.

We wondered....

Does the size of the container change the sound it makes?

What happens when you add wax paper over the top?

What if we bang the top fast?

How tall can we make this before it falls?

We met some new classroom pets..

The snails are so slimey!

They love to climb on each other.

This one is the baby!