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Les cinq sens

 

For this unit I revisit the "Bits and Pieces" type of project from the September apple unit where students

labeled the parts of apple.  Here we are doing much the same thing, I am still providing

the model for each part.  The posters are used as assessment, tell me about your poster, what do you

know about each component.  They are also presented to parents at student-led conferences.

 

5 Senses Poster Lables.pdf

Poster silhouette.pdf

 

 

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Video Links:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYL6QYkhQ_M&feature=related

This link is to an English song but it was really great I thought, covered many of the concepts about senses and more.  I played it in the morning as students were coming into class for a week or two.

 

 

I use the Edmonton Public resource for all of my science units (I will include how to obtain once I get that information,

it is available in French and English).  It is where I begin from (this is my first year teaching grade 1 in Alberta).  

The ideas here supplement the experiments suggested in that resource.  For our five senses unit our students made

a poster depicting each of the five senses and as we moved through our study of each sense we added that portion

to our poster.  We aren't quite finished but I have posted what we have done so far.  

In November we introduced all of the senses and began our study of taste during our food unit.

 

  

 

We glued textures to each of the 5 fingers, a cotton ball, a circle of aluminum foil,

a circle of sandpaper, a button, and a piece of furry fabric.  We learned the term for those textures in French.

 This unit coincides with our "Nicki et les animaux d'hiver"  (Jan Brett's The Mitten) book study and so

those terms come in handy when we discuss the sharp claws, soft fur,

pointy teeth and prickly spikes of the animals from that story.

 

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teacher senses poster.pdf

I had these coloured labels laminated and stuck them onto a laminated poster with

velcro just like the students had.  It helped to have a model students could consult.

 

 

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Christmas 5 Senses.pdf

We completed the Christmas 5 Senses book before the holidays as an overview of all of the senses.  We glued in a small golden bell, a candy cane and we sprinkled cinnamon on the gingerbread man, glued cotton balls to Santa's beard.  The first few pages of this document is the book with all of the information printed.  The second copy is the student "finish me" book.  The same book with blank spaces for student to write, "je vois", "je touche" and so on.

 

Photo is on the December page. 

 

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Science journal pages.pdf

This is also something we completed in December as an overview of the senses.

Students draw what they like to hear, see, smell, taste, feel.  

 

 

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THE SENSE OF SIGHT

 

What is it

 

I made these cards for the sense of sight.  Each group had a couple of cards and I also put

them up on the smart board.  The question was, what do you think it could be?  

They are images of familiar items seen under a microscope.

 

 

Eye safety book.pdf

The Edmonton public resource has a little book about eye safety as one of it's lessons, however the text is much too difficult for my students.  I made my own book for my students.  We read books from the library about the sense of sight.  We did a blind walk to imagine what it might be like to lose your sense of sight.  We read the book shown below (a book about colour without colour):

 

 

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We also enjoyed the story The Seven Blind Mice and the youtube adaptation:

(In our school we would say that this is a fabulous example of Habit 5 Seek First to Understand.)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHHniQTG0ts

narrated and drawn by a young child

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3vMvfAdW88

narrated, originla book by an adult

(use the youtube version, the schooltube version is poorly done)

 

 

 

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THE SENSE OF HEARING

 

Google Wonderville, choose games, then click "How we Hear".

 

http://www.wonderville.ca/asset/how-we-hear

 

Wonderville has a great english website.  We went through the hearing game together on the smart board.  It is in English but provided such excellent examples of how our ears work that I couldn't pass it up.  I wouldn't recommend having students at this level explore it on their own, I found the whole group exploration effective in this case.

 

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MY FAVOURITE BODY PART

 

I found this activity at the ECEC conference this year. Some amazing teacher had her students take black and white pictures of each other's favourite body part. We did this one day and the next day I had them write about why it was their favourite body part. The results are very cool!