In science we have been looking at the human body. We could identify our different body parts and understand why they are important. This week, we looked at and explored our 5 senses. We started with touch. We passed round the circle a soft teddy bear, sand paper, cotton wool and playdough. The children described the objects as: “rough”, “sticky”, “fluffy” and “scratchy”. We now understand that we don’t just use our hands and fingers to touch as we can feel things with many parts of our bodies.
We then explored our sense of smell. We smelt garlic, rosemary, lavender and coffee. We agreed that they smelt very different. Some were strong and some smelt sweet!
We then explored our taste buds! We discussed how everyone has different taste buds which means we all do not like the same things. We then did a comparative test with the question does our sense of taste get stronger when we close our eyes? The majority of the children agreed it did! We used salt and sugar which we all agreed were very different. Their favourite was the sugar!
We finally explored our sense of sight and hearing by playing different sounds and identifying what was making that noise. We then turned our classroom lights on and off, exploring seeing in the light and dark! Overall, we had a lot of fun exploring our 5 senses!
We started off with a lovely game called ‘pass the smile’. We discussed how this made us feel happy, loved and excited! We then talked about how we felt about coming back to school in a new year group with new teachers. We shared all sorts of worries and emotions! To help us understand the different emotions we were feeling we read ‘The colour monster’.
