Sensory Winter - Week 4

Connor, Grant, Will M., Will E., Monica, Lior, Rafferty and Gabriel explored many simple sensory provocations as they built a new repetoir of descriptive vocab words. Flour was our first sensory experience. We noticed when we used droppers to add water to our mountains we were shocked that the drops didn't absorb. While exploring with water we used pumps, funnels, tubes, scoops and ocean creatures while collaborating. Speaking of collaborating, in order to get water into our sensory bins we had to work as a team to fill up a huge pot at the sink area. This task proved challenging at first as friends communicated about how to share the sink with six people. Eventually, two groups of three had the pot filled in no time. We added bubbles and had a fun time getting wet and exploring with a liquid. Greg led the group through a salt exploration on day three as friends made salt shakers and practiced writing letters including each others names. Thrusday we got really messy and combined two familiar elements, water and flour, to make mache. Next, we used our fine motor skills as well as large muscles to tear strips of newspaper. Surprisingly, we found this task challenging and collaborated about different ways to hold the paper to make it tear.
The last day we got to explore with primary colors creating secondary colors to design our bowls/masks. - Sarah