I is for Itchy

 Today we learned all about the letter "Ii." 

We read a fun story that talked about inchworms, iguanas, insects, and igloos.  We also learned that the letter I sometimes has 2 sounds ... a short sound like in the words above and a long sound like in ice, ice cream, and iron.

 

The preschoolers are doing AWESOME at singing their days of the week song and counting.  Please continue practicing this with them at home.  It also helps to identify objects with a number as you are counting.

For Show-&-Tell Elle brought an ice pack and Liam brought some ice cubes!

 Our theme this week was our 5 senses.  Let me introduce you to Mr. Potato ... our classroom mascot for the day.  He helped us learn all about our senses and why they are important to us.

 

We also learned this fun song to go along with the tune of "Where is Thumbkin?"

5 senses, 5 senses

We have them, we have them

Seeing, hearing, touching,

smelling and tasting

There are 5, there are 5.

 

 

As we explored each of our senses I encouraged the preschoolers to use words to describe what they saw, felt and smelled.  This little activity helped to build their vocabulary and think "outside of the box!"

 

Touching:  The preschoolers were able to explore this sense by playing with goo at our sensory table and playdough.  We also had mystery bags where the preschoolers had to explain what they were feeling and guess what the object was (cotton, rock, sand paper, plastic egg, etc.).



 

 

Smelling:  We all sat in a circle and passed items around that we could smell and then voted on our favorite ones.  We used a variety of smells including candle wax, cocoa, and spices like basil, garlic, cloves and ginger.

We also explored smells outside ... here is a picture of the preschoolers smelling the rosemary plant in my front yard!

 

 

Seeing:  For our sight we talked a lot about the colors of the rainbow and learned a new song that teaches us those colors in order.

 

We played a little "I spy" game outside and each of the children had to find one color of the rainbow and tell it to the rest of us.  Here are the place they went to and things they found...(red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet too!)

 

Tasting:  Of course this was one of my favorite experiments today!  I'm sorry if your children came home and said they tried yucky things.  We learned about our taste buds and had some taste test with lemons (pictures below are priceless!), pixy sticks, salt and we had to end with yummy oreos which Taylee and Charlotte greatly appreciated! 

 

Hearing:  I didn't get many pictures of this sense, but we played items that we could hear like a train whistle, a rainstick, and the piano.  We practiced listening to really quiet voices and making our ears listen really carefully.  We also used our own bodies to make noises. To finish it all off each preschooler left with their own maraca noise maker! 

(FYI: Each child promised me that when their parents asked them to stop shaking their maraca they would ... You can remind them of our little preschool saying,

"HOW DO WE OBEY?

RIGHT AWAY!")

 

We had such a fun day today experimenting with our own 5 senses and learning how amazing our bodies really are!