Mostly its knockknock jokes and requests for snacks, but over the month we did get a lot of chances to talk about our senses as we used them. Five senses popcorn introduction activity is part of science images activities use this activity when introducing your five senses unit first pop the corn next complete a graphic organizer, and then do a craft. Have you ever noticed that whenever you pop a bag of popcorn in the microwave, somehow the entire family knows and shows up to share the tasty treat. This five senses activity is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, or first grade science. As preschoolers, our children have the comprehension, vocabulary and ability to learn even more through their senses. My five senses activities free five senses printables.
Add popcorn, kernels and colored ones of both along with other beans and. Students can learn about senses and integrate science by experimenting the ways popcorn can be experienced. It is a great way to assess if they understand the concepts. At the end of the lesson and activities, students will be able to differentiate the senses one from another. Oct 21, 20 five senses with popcorn freebie so way back in september we studied all about our five senses. Jan 15, 2018 this week i chose a series of books about the senses so that we could focus on one sense each day. These 12 motivating, handson activities make learning the 5 senses irresistibly fun and easy to prep. Love the popcorn idea i just pinned it and plan to use it next week. The children got to take their books home, so i will share those with you first. About this packet this packet contains 41 pages of five senses activities. I used this activity for my esl students to use descriptive words in order to describe popcorn using their 5 senses. Sep 25, 2016 read on to find activities, books, free printables, and media resources all about the five senses. In this fun and interactive science project your students will have the chance to explore sight, sound, taste, touch, and texture using popcorn.
Popcorn is not only a delicious snack, it is the perfect food for exploring all 5 senses. Scented cotton ball matching game rhythms of play 20. Exploring the five senses using popcorn in kindergarten is something that you can do with a series of fun activities that will be great for younger kids. In this investigation, weare going to use all of our senses to observe and describe popcorn.
The activities sparked a few big juicy conversations. We talked about the part of the body used to smell, things we can. When we are finished, we then work on more science along with writing and math connections. Jul 14, 2019 my 5 senses book these 5 senses activities were sparked by this simple 5 senses book i found at a local thrift store. My five senses book for kids still playing school 19. Apr 27, 2015 were celebrating our series all about exploring our 5 senses. Babies learn about the world around them strictly through their senses. Get your students excited to explore their five senses with this engaging classroom popcorn activity. Students love creating an interactive 5 senses book. Sense of touch books dont touch this book by bill cotter this adorable interactive book will have students roaring like dinosaurs, flapping like birds. Set the two plates side by side and study them with your child.
I first showed the kids each page and read the words to them. Jan 31, 2014 exploring the five senses using popcorn in kindergarten is something that you can do with a series of fun activities that will be great for younger kids. You can find the popcorn digital activity and stations here. Touch and taste some of the plain popcorn while it is still warm, but not too hot. Reading the books and doing sensory activities will help reinforce learning about the five senses in preschool. Smelling book by following the directions on each page.
David smells a diaper david book by david shannon my five senses by aliki books on cd. Preschool sorting worksheets the 5 senses, touch and sight five senses. Rachel isadora shelved 11 times as 5 senses avg rating 3. Every year my students love watching the popcorn maker churn out freshly popped kernels.
Teaching 5 senses to first and second grade students. Book blacklines creates a 6 page book differentiated with your choice of either tracing. Five senses theme ideas to help your preschoolers develop those small muscles in their. Five senses pop rocks experiment little bins for little hands 17. Preschool popcorn theme ideas for your library and literacy activities for your preschool classroom. When the unit was finished, each child made a book about hisher senses. Youve done art projects, set up science centers, and read tons of books. This popcorn book is designed for prim students have a blast using this five senses popcorn book while making popcorn and learning about the five senses. So i chose to set up a science discovery table with simple science activities that make use of each of the 5 senses. It is a fun activity to do to teach 5 senses and using describing words. A lesson in the five senses is also great for self esteem because they are discovering new and exciting things about themselves. Old valentine activity newly updated 4 years ago live, love, laugh everyday in kindergarten.
Book blacklines creates a 6 page book differentiated with your choice of either tracing or blank lines for writing. Exploring the alphabet with your 5 senses growing book by book 18. Add these titles to your library list and enjoy them when youre teaching about the sense of touch. Please wash your hands and practise social distancing. Explain that seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching, and feeling are the five senses. Five senses with popcorn freebie senses preschool, five. Each page had a different sense on it, a picture to show which sense it was, what that sensetells us, and words to describe the object.
I use my popcorn packet to have students use the anchor chart to fill in a five senses chart of their own. For assessment a popcorn activity will be completed. Five senses activities, handson exploration, and big juicy conversations. Book suggestions for the library i love amazon, and if you choose to get yours there, they do send me a few centswhich supports my coffee habit. Be sure that they contain informative photos or art. Tell children that people use their senses to learn about the world. Have students circle the sense being used, and glue a piece of popcorn on at the end of each line. My five senses and popcorn preschool observation mini book. Sep 19, 2016 this printable book of the five senses helps kids think about how they use each of their senses. In this fine arts and science cross curriculum lesson, students pop popcorn, sing songs, taste and smell a variety of foods, listen to books that incorporate the five senses into the text, and play a. Listen to a tape of various sounds and try to identify the sound or do the sound matching activity above.
Have her carefully repeat steps 37 with this second bag of popcorn and candy. This lesson plan was designed to introduce and demonstrate the 5 senses. An air popper adds great fun to this snacktivity, as you listen to, watch and smell the popcorn popping. This is a printable book i created for my kids to complete. Exploring the five senses and a few more, activities and resources for a kindergarten unit. How about make a fun little mini book with pictures for each sense. Maybe salty or sweet or without butter you might describe it as plain. Suggested grade spank2taskyou have been using your senses to help you learn about your world. Heres how i used the five senses book with my class.
Posters and word wall labels for the 5 senses an engaging sensory walk activity with matching printables cut and paste and writing activities for introducing the 5 senses observing popcorn activity with matching printable flipbooks and mini sight word book activities suggested lesson ideas and additional supporting. So we explored a few more like sense of balance, hunger and. We used the five senses series by rebecca rissman, and we started out with smelling. In my class we work on one page a day, and at the end of the week we have a fantastic little book. The popcorn book lesson students in grades k3 read and use tomie depaolas the popcorn book to study corn and complete math and language arts activities. This activity is an appetizing way to teach your kindergartener what the five senses are all about. Popcorn science students in grades k12 perform five simple experiments to demonstrate what makes popcorn pop. Kindergarten the 5 senses activities young children learn primarily through direct experience. Have a five senses festival as a culminating activity to your five senses unit. Use the my five senses preschool mini book printable and some popcorn and let preschoolers observe and record all about 5 senses craft for senses craft for kidspreschool.
On each sheet, she will describe one of the five senses. Teaching the kids about the five senses sight, smell, sound, taste, touch is a good way to help them understand their bodies. Stick the popcorn in the microwave and hand your child the recording sheets to record what she sees, hears, and smells as the popcorn pops. If you used a digital camera in the beginning of the year you will already have the pictures at. Sep 16, 2012 popcorn 5 senses this week we wrapped up our 5 senses science unit with a fun popcorn experience. Students cut pictures from magazines and match them to the sense that is used to experience them. If you like this resource, you might also like the links below. To help you celebrate even more, here are 50 crafts and activities to explore our 5 senses. A great idea is to have them put the popcorn pieces on the letters s and s or the number 5. Theyre great to use as whole class activities or science centers. In this 5 senses lesson, students decide which sense is used to identify an item. This week i chose a series of books about the senses so that we could focus on one sense each day.
I took a video of myself making popcorn to show my kindergarten class all the senses we can use while making popcorn. The room was set up in stations so that students can focus on one sense at a time. The simple solutions team has got you covered with our five senses popcorn activity for kindergarten through second grade. This collection of science activities that include making observations with sight, smell, hearing, touch, and taste. Check out our resources for adapting to these times. Students were expected to write a sentence for each of the senses describing popcorn. Popcorn and five senses in science the science school yard. Weve been sharing ideas for exploring our 5 senses over the last few weeks. Were celebrating our series all about exploring our 5 senses. Try this popcorn 5 senses activity with your preschoolers for a fun, culminating lesson. I made a similar anchor chart and then gave my students some.
Our five senses allow us to enjoy the world around us the taste of our food, the sound of music, the beauty of a sunrise, the softness of a cats fur, and the fragrance of a rose. My 5 senses book these 5 senses activities were sparked by this simple 5 senses book i found at a local thrift store. As students eat the popcorn, talk about how they used all five senses to identify and enjoy this snack. This engaging classroom experiment is designed for primary grades and special education classrooms, and will get your students excited to explore how they use their five senses. Preschool activities that feature the five senses prek. In a recent study of the five senses, aluvcurrently 7 composed a poem using all five sensespopcorn poetry. Since popcorn is edible, preschoolers not only get a fun lesson all about the. Looking for a fun way to explore the five senses with your preschooler.
Finally, invite students to open their eyes to confirm their predictions. I like to use my five senses by aliki brandenberg, the five senses series by maria ruis, j. Let your preschool students pick up pieces of popcorn one at a time with their fingers, dip them in elmers glue and then put them on a sheet of brown construction paper. Then when the popcorn is finished cooking and has cooled down a bit invite her to record how the popcorn feels and tastes. However, i hadnt thought about the fact that popcorn involves all five senses until a reader pointed this fact out to me. Popcorn 5 senses activity for preschoolers play to learn preschool. The few more i made the mistake of mentioning that we dont only have five senses. All about my body and 5 senses free activity science.
Help your children explore the five senses with kindergarten five senses activities that include making homemade bubbles and even hand sanitizer. My five senses activities, crafts, lessons, games, and printables for preschool and kindergarten. Provide the childrens favorite stories on cd or tape so they can hear and read at the same time. All about my body and 5 senses free activity science unit. My 3 and 5 year old collaborated together to make their own five senses collage mini book by cutting pictures out of old magazines that describe each of the five senses. This product includes detailed instructions, large colorful pieces to be used during interactive writing, and a student recording sheet. Learning about the five senses is an essential part of each preschoolers experience. It would be benefeficial to ask for some parent volunteers for this activity so the teacher can move around from station to station to ask questions and assess. Children may recognize the importance of their senses, but they dont often focus on them individually. Students will use their 5 senses to investigate and make observations about popcorn.
This unit covers everything from our organs and bones, to our brain and to how we learn about the world using our five senses. After reading the last line, let them eat the popcorn. Another culminating activity we did was to complete our my 5 senses books. Next complete a graphic organizer, and then do a craft. If you loved the shapes activities above, youll also these worksheets. My five senses and popcorn preschool observation mini book printable.
Students have a blast using this five senses popcorn book while making popcorn and learning about the five senses. Use popcorn in this tasty experiment to explore the five senses at home with your kindergartener. We also have some 5 senses book picks, and how to host a 5 senses popcorn party. My five senses preschool activities, lessons, and printables. Popular 5 senses books showing 150 of 206 i hear a pickle. Use this activity when introducing your five senses unit. This activity blends all five senses and allows for students to choose the order by which they experience each sense while popping popcorn. Activities that stimulate the senses help the brain to develop and function at its peak. The five senses descriptive writing good for juicy words too. Thats because its a multisensory snack, or a snack that incorporates all five senses. Popcorn word activities potatoes presidents day prince and princess pumpkin quilts rabbits raccoons racecar rainbow rain forest recipes reptiles rhyme time page scarecrow school science ideas sea seals on the bus self awareness senses five senses sesame street shapes shoetying sight word bingo marker sign language skeleton snakes snowsnowmen.
Five senses literacy ideas for making learning fun. Five senses with popcorn freebie so way back in september we studied all about our five senses. Then, add melted butter and salt, or your choice of seasonings, and enjoy a delicious snack with all of your senses. Searching for a science lesson perfect for the five senses. Popcorn 5 senses this week we wrapped up our 5 senses science unit with a fun popcorn experience. Each of the sensory science activities was inspired by a book. Try a fun free activity right on this blog post all about our bones and muscles. You can use your own books or refer to the books about the five senses section of my book list for more suggestions.
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