Sensory: Winter Week 8

Ursula, Sienna, Willa, July, Anja, Niko, Zach, Everett, Autumn: Sensory week 8
Wow! This group was ready to move, shake, small, taste and learn all about their senses from the start! Some days we had as few as three friends while other days we had all nine friends learning together. Each day we began talking about our five senses and making a diagram of a person and added each body part affiliated with each sense. We sounded out each word for example "we See with our Eyes", this gave us an opportunity to continue working on our literacy skills. Each day we explored a new material, day one we explored with Salt where we wrote our names and with a gentle shake watched them disappear. Day two we explored with flour talking about how soft it is and how it reminds us of snow. We made flour art on black paper too. Day three we stirred, splashed, poured, funneled and colored water as we used our hands and our feet to make bubbles and secondary colors from primary colors. The last day (no ateliers day five) we combined water and flour to make mache. We carefully tore strips of newspaper and dipped them in our messy concoction then applied them to our upside-down bowls. I wonder if they will take them home to make a treasure bowl, mask, hanging basket or hat? Day five we had some teachers out and stayed in our rooms. I encourage you to explore with primary colors and create many swirls and designs creating new colors! What a fun time we had learning with our bodies about the world around us.