We're finishing up our 5 senses unit this week and today we focused on "smell." We talked about how our sense of smell is a gift from God, for His glory. Our sense of smell helps to protect us. It also enables us to enjoy the beautiful world He put us in. We talked about good smells (pizza, cookies, flowers) and bad smells (diapers...yuck!).
Our big activity today was our art project. Like yesterday's, a lot of brown was involved. Again, process, not product:). We did spice paintings. I brought some old spices from home, mixed it with white glue, and stuck in some paintbrushes. We were sure to smell the different spices (curry, cinnamon, sage, thyme, etc.) and decided which ones were good smells, and which were not so good. The texture of this "paint" was interesting to explore as well! This may not be one you want to keep-there is some sugar in the cinnamon (it's all I could find...)
We also whipped out the playdoh in the writing center and made letters and words with the playdoh. We all know that each have unique learning styles, and my hope is that introducing different mediums in our writing center will offer everyone opportunity to better learn/appreciate language rather than just drilling them with flashcards and tracing sheets.
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| Anne Barrett's eyelashes blew me away today |
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| "it" with playdoh |
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| Working hard to create letters with playdoh |
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| This team worked so hard together! |
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| A smelly creation |
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| Playdoh "T" |
What a neat idea to do Playdoh letters! And the smelly art looks great!
ReplyDeleteOlivia made a 6 out of a Twizzler the other day, and I thought, "Well, at least something good is coming out of me letting her eat junk!"