This week we participated in Science Week by learning all about our senses! Throughout the week, we had a go at lots of exciting learning experiences that involved us using our sight, smell, taste, touch and hearing to develop our understanding of how our senses work.
We began our exploration of senses with a smell activity. We had to pick up the jars and guess what was inside, using our sense of smell. We then shared which smells we liked and didn’t like by talking to the rest of the group and writing down what we said. The jars included things like coffee, washing powder and garlic! We all thought that the mint jar had toothpaste inside as we made links to what is familiar to us. Other predictions included trees from a forest and a Christmas dinner!
Our next learning experience involved using our sense of taste to try different foods. This was the favourite activity of the week for most of us! We ate raisins, crisps, chocolate and slices of lemon to try a variety of different tastes.
We all sat and waited our turn to try the different foods. We enjoyed talking about the tastes of the different foods and used describing words such as, ‘sweet’, ‘salty’ and ‘sour’ to explain what they were like. We shared our opinions on each of the foods and then created a table to record our likes and dislikes afterwards.
Here are some of our reactions to the sour lemon taste!
On Wednesday, we went on a lovely visit to St John’s Church. On our journey, we used our sight to notice the world around us. We spotted many signs of Spring along the way and spent quiet time inside the Church looking at the beautiful things around us. When we were back at school, we looked at a map of our journey and used our mark-making skills to add the things that we noticed on our way to and from the Church.
We enjoyed an outdoor library session this week. As well as listening to the story, we sat quietly and patiently on the benches to find out what we could hear. We heard lots of different bird songs as we enjoyed the sunshine and fresh air.
At the end of the week, we used a feely bag to play a game that explored our sense of touch. We had to pass around the bag and feel what was inside. We used talk to describe what the objects felt like and then made our predictions. Once the bag had been passed around the entire circle, we pulled out the object to find out. It took us a few attempts of us practising not peeking inside the bag!
We had lots of fun exploring our senses this week for Science Week! What an exciting learning experience it was!