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This 5 senses poem template is perfect for primary grades! The kids love to share their poems and guess what their classmates are writing about! ...
Revise to learn a lot of useful adjectives to talk about the 5 senses Learn and practise: The five senses from afrimogo ...
Last month we were been busy creating a variety of poems with our first graders. If you're looking for a quick and fun poetry lesson you'll enjoy this one! One recent poem we worked on was a 5 senses poem. We began by reading several poems out of the book below. This fabulous book contains several poems about everyday objects like pants, scissors, ice cream, spaghetti, socks, etc.. We read the poems to our first graders without showing the pictures, or reading the titles. If the object was mentioned in the poem (which didn't happen very often), we left it out when we read. Our goal was to have our kiddos pay close attention to the adjectives and descriptions in order to figure out what object we were reading about. It was SO MUCH FUN!!! Some they guessed, while others were difficult. Dear Hot Dog Then we read from a chart like the one below. We created it before the lesson, had it turned around, then read from it making sure the kids could not see it. It's definitely not fancy, but it was similar to the worksheet our kiddos would be using, so it fit the purpose :) They enjoyed guessing, and many figured out what our poem was about. Next, we told our first graders that they would be creating a five senses poem about popcorn to read aloud to their families. We bought a big bag of popcorn from Costco, already pooped which made it sooo much easier! After giving each kiddo a cup of popcorn, we looked at it, listened to it as we rubbed it next to our ears, smelled it, felt it, and finally tasted it (their favorite part)! As we did each activity, we listed their descriptive words/phrases on our whiteboards in 5 separate columns. Finally, each of our students made their own poem using the words from the lists we created as a class. Then next day we discussed who they read their poem to, and if that person was able to figure it out. They had a great time! If you'd like a copy of our poem format you can find it {HERE}! Five Senses Poem Have a great week!
Fun with the 5 senses this week! Theme Verse Psalm 34:8 - Taste and see that the Lord is good. My Senses Fingerplay/Song 5 Senses Books There are also a lot of great books out there for each of the senses individually, but we just stuck to general 5 senses books for our short week. Senses on the Farm by Shelley Rotner; The Five Senses by Keith Faulker; My Five Senses by Aliki, Senses in the City by Shelley Rotner Mr. Potato Head How cute are these guys? Original inspiration came from Pinterest. Mr. Potato head is the perfect guy to help us learn about our 5 senses! Meredith's Caleb's It Feels... I found 6 items around the house, all with different textures. The kids had to explore the textures, glue them to the hands on the paper and then tell me a word that described what they felt like. The 6 items I used were: pine needles from the Christmas tree, felt, sandpaper, cotton ball, sponge, and dots of glue that I put on there the night before so they would be dry enough to touch. Meredith described the pine needles as "pine cone prickly plant", the glue dots as "bumpy", the felt as "soft", the sandpaper as "hard", the cotton ball as "soft" and the sponge as "bumpy." Caleb described the pine needles as "prickly", the glue dots as "bumpy", the felt as "fluffy", the cotton ball as "soft", the sponge as "bouncy" and the sandpaper as feeling like "salty pretzels". =) Online Activity: Sense of Hearing I came across this website where the kids could listen to different sounds, and then identify what they were. My Apple After enjoying a snack, Caleb & Meredith described their apples... Meredith's - I see a RED apple. I hear a CRUNCHY apple. I feel a WATERY apple. I taste a YUMMY apple. I smell a COLD apple. Caleb's - I see a RED apple. I hear a CRUNCHY apple. I feel a wet apple. I taste a YUMMY apple. I smell a SOUR apple. In the Kitchen: Tasting & Smelling We talked about how our tongue has taste buds...and that when we taste something, those taste buds send signals to our brain about what that food tastes like. We also talked about which parts of our tongue have which types of taste buds. The kids tasted 4 different foods and then had to identify which type of taste they were, then glue them to their tongue diagram. bitter - lemon peel, sour - lemon, salty - pretzel, sweet - marshmallow After their taste tests, they put their noses to work to smell various spices. We talked about the different smells. They agreed that the cinnamon smells the best! This week, we also took a trip to the Shedd Aquarium...that was the perfect place to test out our senses! We got to see, smell, touch, and hear all sorts of things at the aquarium - some familiar and some new to us. We didn't actually taste anything while there....other than our lunch. =) Scroll down to a previous post to see more pictures from our visit there.
Poetry gets a bad wrap? Don't you think? It's a bit intimidating, so it leads to teachers avoiding it whenever possible. However, there are so many fun ways to incorporate poetry into an early elementary classroom. Believe me, those upper grades will thank you for it! Start out with something simple, like this five senses
Use this sheet as a template for students writing a sensory poem! ...
This song is an engaging way for students to recall the 5 senses. This is part of the Year One Physical Science Light and Sound Unit, describing each of the 5 senses.
Introduce students to poetry with a 5 sense poem! Write a senses poem on what you see, hear, taste, touch, and smell with these free printables
Verbs of perception The verbs of involuntary perception (to see, to hear, to feel, to smell, to taste) have certain characteristics in common: • They are often used with the auxiliar…
I can't decide if I'm really late for last weeks link up, or really early for this Friday. Either way I've got five (plus one) randoms for you. It's the Five for Friday link up over at Doodle Bugs Teaching. Click the picture to check out everyone else's five things as well! 1. Check out our spring bulletin boards. We wrote some five senses spring poems, then practiced our typing skills using Max's Toolbox (kid version of Microsoft Office... have you tried it before?? Love it!). On our spring math bulletin board we made some Easter subtraction craftd (inspired by Kinder by Kim's Jazzy Journals). We also completed Miss Kindergarten's Math Flowers. They turned out so cute! Here is our rough copy of our spring senses poem. We wrote them in pencil first, then typed them and added clipart. I skimped on the colour printing though. Oh well! Click the pic to download your own copy. 2. We have been doing a mini plant unit last week and this week. We labelled parts of the plants, completed the life cycle, talked about needs, and graphed our favourite type of plant (a la The First Grade Parade). We also made our own grassheads! They were super fun and pretty easy to make! Just get your boyfriend to make a pit stop at the Dollar Store to pick you up 8 sets of beige panty hose and you are ready to go! :) We just stretched the panty hose over a plastic container, put a spoonful of grass seeds into it, and then filled it with potting soil. Tie a knot at the base of the head. Use a tiny elastic to make a nose (some chose not to). Hot glue wiggle eyes and a pipecleaner mouth and/or mustache. Decorate the styrofoam cup. Last, water them! We put water inside the cups and I also let them squirt the tops with spray bottles eveyr morning. I was a little worried these guys wouldn't grow because I have no green thumb or fingers at all, but we saw a few little sprouts here and there this morning. Success! :) Every morning I have my students take out their observation journal, draw a picture of their grasshead, and write a sentence about how it is growing. You can download the journal by clicking the picture below. Download old version here. Download new version here. 3. Last week Thursday was our Open House. It's pretty low-key. Usually we just display artwork created by the students when our "Artist in the School" visits, but ours had to cancel due to a family emergency, so we had to change things up this year. Our principal wanted us to demonstrate how we use technology in our classroom, so I had my Mimio and document camera set up. Students could show their parents how we use the document camera and then they could show our calendar routine (complete with fancy calendar video menu). Parents were pretty amazed at some of the high tech things we now have! We also put out our autobiographies that we finally finished! They turned out really good and I am pretty impressed with some of their writing. 4. I got some sweet comments on my Weekly Plans from last week. I have to confess, my plans don't look like that all the time. I just tried it out so I could link up with Deedee! This is what my actual day planner looks like. I like having the whole week spread over two pages. This works pretty well for me. 5. Here are my students enjoying some fun Daily 5 time! I had to snap that sweet shot of my two boys listening to the same book. They were really engaged in the story. I have about 60 different "Listen to Reading" books right now. I just picked up a few more from SuperStore this week. They were Disney stories--Wreck It Ralph, Phineas & Ferb, Tinkerbell, and Tangled. They were only 5 bucks each and the kids love them! The other picture is a student completing a newly added word work centre. This is a Beginning Sound MP3 Match from K is for Kinderiffic. They loved it! So I did it today. I counted how many days left. 46! Eek! The snow is finally starting to melt a bit, so the kids are feeling a bit wrangly. I don't blame them. I just want to go sit outside in the sun too! Today I felt that the blurting out was becoming a big problem again so I decided to bring out the Whole Brain Teaching scoreboard idea again. I used to do Students vs. Teacher so that everytime a student blurted I would get a tally and everytime someone raised their hand or waited their turn, the students would get a tally. This worked fine except I would get the students that just raised their hand to get more tallies! "My tooth is loose." "My fish died yesterday." "I think blue is my favourite colour." Ugh! I don't care! Anyways, I decided to change things up a bit and change it to Boys vs. Girls! They ate it up! If a boy blurts, the girls get a tally. If a girl blurts, the boys get a tally. Sweet! The reward? Whoever has the most tally marks by last recess gets TWO EXTRA MINUTES OF RECESS!! Hahah. Really I just let them get dressed first and go outside a tiny bit earlier. Easy peasy! It worked like a charm! The girls won today. We'll see if the boys can make it tomorrow! :) Click the picture to download your own Boys vs. Girls Scoreboard and give it a try! Enjoy your week peeps!
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