Dear families,

 
We've enjoyed learning about our senses for the past few weeks.  This past week we learned about our sense of hearing.  We did a sound experiment, where we predicted which toys would make noise, and then tested our hypotheses.  We matched musical instruments that sounded the same, and put different toys inside plastic eggs and used our sense of hearing to find the two eggs that sounded the same.  We identified sounds that were loud and soft, and we listened and matched animal sounds. 


This week we will be finishing up our 5 senses unit by learning about taste and smell.  We will smell different foods that are inside ziploc containers and try to find the one that smells the same.  We will also smell different foods and create a graph of which smells were good and which smells were bad.  We will be painting different fruits with kool aid, so that when the pictures dry the fruits from their picture will smell like the real thing.  For taste, we will do an experiment with different fruits.  The students will try the different fruits and vote on which one likes the best.  Then we will add up all the numbers and see which fruit was liked by the most students.  We will also taste red, yellow, and green apples to see which one we like best, and sort objects onto apples with the same color. 


- The Barnyard Buddies