Sensing Fall!

We went outside for writing last week, to explore our senses and draw and write about them!  We had fun tasting cranberries, touching everything we could get our hands on, and smelling lots of old leaves, listening for birds and airplanes, and seeing beautiful fall leaves!  The kids said they always want to have writing class outside!!!

We explored our sense of sight by watching a video of how animals see differently than we do.  We also learned about people who don't have their sense of sight, and how they read with braille!  

We combined our study of the sense of hearing with learning about the letter M for music!  We made some great music in our classroom with instruments.  

We practiced using describing words with a sense of touch game.  The kids had to feel something in the box, and describe it to their friends to try to guess what it was.  It was tough!

We played "Guess that smell" and found out how hard it is to identify smells unless you use your other senses as clues, too!

Everyone's favorite sense this week was probably exploring the sense of taste!  Ms. Charlotte, one of our awesome aides, shared her award winning apple pie recipe with us.  We learned how to read a recipe and practiced reading the numbers before we began cooking.  We had a great time making the pies and then sharing them with our families and our first grade friends at a pie party!!!

Here is the recipe if you want to try it at home!

In math we are exploring the concept of equal.  We used balances to demonstrate equality and inequality.  We also learned about how Native Alaskans used boats for fishing and how to load the boats carefully so they are balanced.  We learned a bit about fractions and following directions when we made our own paper boats and loaded them carefully with playdoh to see if we could balance them in the water!  The kids couldn't believe me when I told them we were going to do math with playdoh.  It was so much fun!!!  

In math also we finished our 10 Apples Up On Top project... We found out that it is a lot easier to balance apples with glue on paper than it is to balance them on our heads!  

Next week is Spirit Week.  The kids are encouraged to participate in dress up days to show school spirit!  

Don't forget to bring warm clothes, puddle boots if you have them, and extra clothes for our field trip to Moon Lake on Monday!