Senses

KG-M has been abuzz with learning and the topic "senses" fills our day. This first Unit of Inquiry is all about how our senses help us explore our world and develop new understandings about ourselves. As a provocation to help us begin thinking about our senses, we explored many different items. Through a follow-up discussion we discovered that we used many body parts to explore, including our eyes, ears, hands, tongues and noses. These body parts helped us see, hear, touch, taste and smell. Sometimes we used only one sense to explore an item, while at other times we used multiple senses!

Yesterday we did an activity to delve deeper into the sense of taste. We wanted to eliminate the other senses (but not smell!) the best we could, so we put on blindfolds and tried not to use our fingers to touch the things we put in our mouths. We then discussed the various tastes we experienced. Salty, peppery, sweet, bitter, sour, tangy and minty were some of the many words shared. We will expand upon this activity by seeing how our sense of taste connects with other senses, and how we are all unique in our likes and dislikes. 

Our current math focus is sorting and classifying. We are looking at attributes and determining different ways of sorting. We have noticed we can sort using the senses as attributes as well!