Blog by Tag: senses
Our Ears can Hear
Listen up!!!
This week, as part of our 'Amazing me!' topic work, we are exploring how are ears help us to hear. We have been playing lots of listening games, listening to the first sound that objects begin with, playing sound bingo, exploring mystery sound tubes and matching them to the correct…
Category: Ducklings
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Our Five Senses
Little Chicks are learning all about me, this week we are looking at our five senses.
Today we looked at our sense of hearing. We listened and guessed the sound, read the book ears can hear and sang along to song I have senses.
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Category: Little Chicks
Herb soup
We are learning about the sense of smell this week. We have harvested some herbs from our garden and have been using scissors to snip the herbs and make our own 'herb soup.' The children have enjoyed using their sense of smell to investigate each of the different herbs.
Category: Ducklings
fine motor Speaking and Listening senses Understanding the World
Guess the taste?
As we were finding out more about the sense of taste this week, we carried out a fun investigation. We made 3 different drinks, all red in colour, for the children to taste and guess the flavour. One was water, one orange squash and one lemon squash. The children were able to use their sense of…
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A visitor to Ducklings
On Friday we were very lucky to have a visit from Mr Kenyon who supports a little girl in Little Chicks that is deaf. Mr Kenyon is also deaf and he came to talk to us about being deaf, as we are learning about our senses and in particular hearing. He explained what being deaf means for different…
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Speaking and Listening senses Understanding the World
Our sense of taste
We have been learning about our five senses this week. Today we used our sense of taste to explore different tastes, such as sweet, sour, bitter and salty.
We talked about how something that tastes nice to one person, might not taste nice to another. We all have different likes and dislikes.
Category: Ducklings
Listening game
The Ducklings have enjoyed playing a listening lotto game, taking turns, following the rules, as well as listening very carefully and hopefully not being too disappointed if they don't win!
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Taste Test
In science we are learning about the body. Last week we were finding out all about our 5 senses. Herons classroom was turned into the taste testing room. We had to look at the food and guess what it was or what the flavour was. Next, we had to taste the foods and describe them using adjectives.…
Category: Herons