Five Senses and MY FIRST VIDEO POST!

We are STILL working on our five senses unit in science class, it seems to be dragging on FOREVER, I'm tellin you. 

We read the story "The Black Book of Colors" which is so cool and has words in braille and raised pictures. 

We then talked about what it would be like to not have our sense of sight and be blind. All of the students wrote out their names and then used the "secret code" to make their name in braille. They glued split peas onto the sheet after colouring in the dots to make the bumps.

I then did a lesson on how scientists smell. Sorry it is so choppy and you can only see my face and lovely lights, just keeping privacy of the children in mind! So excited to have my first video up. I was actually inspired by Cara Carroll, she posted a video of her teaching and it was neat to see what a great teacher she is in real life!!

Mrs. Dunn 

Five Senses Art- Smell

This art project also goes with my gingerbread unit. I found pre-cut tinfoil at the grocery store, so I didn't need to cut it. Again I put step by step instructions on the SMART board.

 Students glue the template onto brown cardboard paper and cut it out. 

 They then colour in candy shapes for faces, and use pencil for where they want the "icing".

 This is where the smelling part comes in! Sprinkle cinnamon over top of the white glue icing.

Glue onto tinfoil and viola, the gingerbread man is ready to go into the oven!

Mrs. Dunn

Five Senses Art- Hearing

To correlate with the five senses unit in science, I decided to come up with a matching art project for each sense. This particular project also involved studying complimentary colours. I printed off a Christmas song, you could also use sheet music if you happened to have some, and printed it off on 11x17. We did a lesson on complimentary colours using the colour wheel. I had students sketch out their picture in the sketchbook first, to make sure everyone had the correct colours. They then painted their music and coloured an instrument of their pick in the complimentary colour. In the example the musical instrument would be purple and glued in the center. I then glued this onto yellow paper.

Mrs. Dunn