We introduced the theme each day with a different sense, picture, print, 5 senses song, books and short videos about senses .
Art
Monday-Touch- glued various materials on paper
Tuesday-Taste- Glued all the things we tasted on paper
Wednesday- Hearing- Made Tambourine’s- filled paper plated with noodles, painted with paint sticks
Thursday- Sight- Painted with sunglasses on , on easel
Friday- Smell- Flowers- glued cupcake liners, cotton balls, stems to represent flowers to smell(perfume)
Math
Animal chip clips and buckets to practice counting one-to one as the children clipped the chips on the buckets, flower number picks and foam blocks to practice number recognition, counter shape nuts and boltz to match same colors or same shapes while twist and turning the shapes on the pegs, number colored stacking cups to make patterns, organize shape cups by size or shapes, and colored donut rings to organize by size to make fit on the rings.
Motor Development
Touch and feel shape and color cards to feel the different textures, scented slime with wooden spoons to mix and scoop the slime, shape pounding benches using a small hammer to pound each shape, name it, and make it fall through the bottom of the bench, colored magnifying
glasses with crystals to look through the glass using various colors, stringing with apple jacks with strings and pipe cleaners for sturdy grip and loose grips.
Sensory Table
Noodles, marbles, gems, cotton balls, choo, choo wheels and cups
Activities
Manners Review- Please, Thank-you and excuse me
Jumping over the line
Shape snack- children will cut out cheese with cookie cutters
Science- taste testing- children tasted various foods- salty, sweet, spicy, sour, chewy
St. Patrick’s Day Freeze dance
Feely Box
St. Patrick’s day songs
How to catch a Leprechaun book and short video
Spanish words introduction- colors and body parts by Miss Brenda