five senses

The exploration of taste

We explored a wonderful book about five senses and then followed it up by baking up our sense of taste!

The exploration of smell

Exploring our sense of smell through this engaging water transfer experience.

An exploration of sound

Exploring our sense of hearing with our sound discovery table!

Feeling the texture of fall

Today, our we used our hands to discover the way the veins on a leaf feels as we created leaf imprints in foil!

Our five senses snowmen in preschool

Wrapping up our Five Seasons of Christmas with this fun Five Senses Snowman activity!

We made a gingerbread man in preschool

Exploring the Five Seasons of Christmas by making our own Gingerbread Men and Gingerbread Houses!

We explored our five senses in preschool: touch

This past week the children explored their sense of touch, taste, smell, sight, and hearing. Let me show you what the children found in the “sense of touch” discovery center… The children used their sense of touch to sample different types of textures. This activity lends itself to great opportunities for expanding vocabulary. I stopped by the toddler class on [...]

We explored our five senses in preschool: taste

This past week the children explored their sense of touch, taste, smell, sight, and hearing. Let me show you what the children found in the “sense of taste” discovery center… The children tasted different kinds of fruit such as apples, pears, oranges, peaches, and we also tried pickles. Some of the children flat refused to taste a pickle. They thought that [...]

We explored our five senses in preschool: sight

This past week the children explored their sense of touch, taste, smell, sight, and hearing. Let me show you what the children found in the “sense of sight” discovery center… The children used their sense of sight to look through these colorful toilet roll lenses. The children looked at each other, out the window, and throughout their classroom. I invited the [...]

We explored our five senses in preschool: hearing

This past week the children explored their sense of touch, taste, smell, sight, and hearing. Let me show you what the children found in the “sense of hearing” discovery center… The children played a listening matching game. In a basket were 35mm canisters filled with items such as corn, dice, and salt. There were two of each sound canisters. The children [...]

We explored our five senses in preschool: smell

This past week the children explored their sense of touch, taste, smell, sight, and hearing. Let me show you what the children found in the “sense of smell” discovery center… Smelly Cups The children used their sense of smell to guess what each item was in the smelly cups. Inside each cup was a variety of seasonings such as cinnamon, onion [...]