Thanksgiving and our five senses

At Gan we celebrate thanksgiving everyday by thanking Hashem for giving us another day.

This year we focused on thanking Hashem for our five senses. We had so much fun learning about three of them and hope to finish next week!

Thank you Hashem for our five senses!

Smell

Added cinnamon to our paint.  Was humorous to watch the curious little noises balancing between smelling it and trying not to get it on their nose.

 Spices added to our play dough as well as cloves to play with.  Arik made a face out of his cloves.

 Smell test.

Cups containing an assortment of smells. Some smells lead into memories and conversations with each other.

A rose was passed around during circle time to enjoy the beautiful smell.

In our recycling draw we have different spice containers. The children had fun rummaging through it and finding all types of aromas. Cinnamon was the most popular, paprika not so much ;)

Sight

We are so thankful for our eyes. After discussing how important eyes are, Moshe came up to check out his eye color. Some learned the word hazel from Emma.

Self portrait art and trying to draw our eyes. Eli requested a blue marker to match his eyes.

Emma decorating binoculars.

We played a game using our binoculars. After naming a certain color or shape that one of our friends were wearing, Esther and Yanky had to find it using their binoculars.

 Trying to find the matching abc's hidden in the rice. This was a great hand-eye coordinating activity.

During davening circle we hid the Torahs all around the room. Some friend eyes helped each other find a Torah.

 Hearing

Sholom painting with bells attached to his brush.

Painting while listening to music.

Was interesting to watch some learning how to multi-task.

Adelle was so happy while listening to the fast joyous song.

Esther felt relaxed listening to a slow melody.

Moshe tried both, fast paced music and slow on two different papers, was interesting to watch the difference in his paintbrush movements.

Graphing what makes noise?

Sholom letting us know if a feather makes noise.

Some were challenging. We offered Chana Rochel one symbol. As she was about to put it on the no sound tray we gave her the other one! 

Mina held an empty Tzedakah box and then we added coins to it!

 Emma started a great hands on experience about hearing in the sensory table by filling her container to the top and it didn't make any sound!

Happy 4th birthday Moshe!