The Fourth Sense is Touch

This week we explored the fourth of our five senses, touch. We started out with a mystery bag filled with rocks, pom-poms, macaroni, blocks, ribbons, sand paper, toothbrushes and paint brushes. The children described their mystery findings as soft, hard, smooth, rough, wavy and bumpy. Some of the children liked the toothbrush because it was both soft and hard. During morning choice time the children were invited to use eye droppers and water color paints on hard rocks and soft cotton circles, great for fine motor skills! The children's favorite seemed to have been watching the cotton absorb the colored water. 

To kick off touch week, the pre-k children started making a texture book of their very own on Monday. Starting with the first page, the feeling was "soft" and children added fluffy pom-pons to the page. Tuesday's word, and page two, was "hard" - macaroni was added to the page. Wednesday's texture was "rough/bumpy" - various types of textured paper were added to the page. Thursday's texture was "smooth" - silky ribbon was added. And finally, Friday's textures were "waxy" and "sticky" - wax paper and sticky stickers were added to the pages. What a nice book the children created as they chatted about the way things felt including many silly words to describe the textures. 

For touch week, the preschoolers were introduced to a mystery box with something soft or hard inside. Each child took a turn reaching inside the box to feel the object.  Without using their sense of sight, the children guessed what was inside the box. As the week continued, the children painted with corn. The group discussed  how it felt and all of the children agreed that it felt bumpy and smooth.  The children also liked seeing their pictures come out all bumpy. 

Ms. Mary Beth's movement class was all about apples. They danced around the apple tree to “It’s a brand new day” and recited a poem about apples, too. Everyone had a picture of a red, green or yellow apple and when they heard their color they held it up high and picked the apple off of the pretend tree. 

Mr. Ed came with his guitar to sing and dance the hokey pokey, as well as, shake your silly’s out and they sang about apples. There were lots of smiles, singing and laughter going on during music, its great to be a kid at SEE!

To finish up the week, all of the children enjoyed a felt story called “The Little Old Lady.” This week, the Little Old Lady was trying to find her senses. Colored felt pieces were added to the felt board when the children responded to the questions, “Why do I have ears, mouth, hands, nose, and eyes?”

What's up next?

The children will explore the last of our five senses, “sight.” We have lots of fun things to see next week! 

Upcoming Dates and Reminders:

October 3: October tuition is due
October 5: Curriculum Night - check your Evite for more details and to RSVP!
October 10: SEE closed in observance of Columbus Day
October 22: Trunk-or-Treat at SEE! See your Evite for more details and for instructions on how to sign up!
November 1: November tuition is due
November 11: SEE closed in observance of Veteran's Day
November 23: SEE closes at 3:00pm
November 24-25: SEE closed in observance of Thanksgiving

Pictures from the week:

SEE's very own artists hard at work!

Texture book pages, "soft" and "hard"

A bumpy picture made with corn

It was another great week at SEE! Have a good weekend!

Ms. Pauline