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GODDARD at home

F.L.EX.® DAILY ACTIVITY PLANS

KINDERGARTEN

OUR FIVE SENSES WEEK 8 • DAY 1

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Greeting

ACTIVITY Greet your child with a warm “Good morning!” Talk about smells you like and those you don’t. How can you avoid the ones you don’t like?

LEARNING SKILLS Science, biology, interpretation of data

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Morning Meeting

Transition

ACTIVITY Work through a plan for the day. Talk about the five senses (taste, sight, smell, touch and hearing) and why they are so important to us. Remember to make time for fun things you and your child would like to do. Write it on your plan.

LEARNING SKILLS Reflection, critical thinking, working memory

Materials Daily chart, paper, pencils or markers

ACTIVITY Read the book or view the read aloud for I Hear a Pickle: and Smell, See, Touch & Taste It, Too! by Rachel Isadora. Talk about what foods your child likes, the characters in the story and all five senses as they were discovered in the story. It is a long book, so feel free to break it up into parts and read it throughout the day.

LEARNING SKILLS Listening, biology, vocabulary, key ideas and details

Materials Book or read aloud

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Pre-Exploration

ACTIVITY Have your child select six to eight spices from your spice rack. Be careful with the pepper!

LEARNING SKILLS Preparation, organization

Materials Spices

Purposeful Exploration

Post-Exploration

ACTIVITY Have your child smell each of the spices. What do they smell like? Does your child like each smell? Ask your child to pour a little bit of one spice in one of the bowls. Next, your child can add a little water to make “smelly” paint. Then try the same with each spice. Now your child can use the brush and paint with the spices. Once the paper is dry, you can guess which spice is which by smelling the paper.

LEARNING SKILLS Scientific exploration, fine motors skill development, creativity

Materials Spices, bowls, waters, paintbrush, paper

ACTIVITY Talk about what your child created. Ask your child about the activity. Which spice was your child’s favorite? Display the art in the kitchen.

LEARNING SKILLS Reflection, communication

Materials N/A

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ACTIVITY Before you eat lunch, line up several different types of food. Ask your child what tastes sweet, sour, crunchy, etc.

LEARNING SKILLS Explaining details, interpretation of data

Materials Mealtime items

Transition

ACTIVITY Ask your child a few questions. What can your senses tell you about a book, a cat, a bug or a pickle? How many senses are you using?

LEARNING SKILLS Vocabulary, explaining details, interpretation of data

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Learning Lab

ACTIVITY Play an indoor seek-and-find game using the sense of sight. Write the names of objects around the house on a chart. Ask your child to read the word and then find the object. Use a tub or bin where your child can collect the objects. Did your child find them all? For non-readers, you can use pictures of the items or find items that start with different letters.

LEARNING SKILLS Vocabulary, reading, print knowledge

Materials Tub, chart, marker, household items

mealtime

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ACTIVITY Take items from indoors to play with outdoors. Make music and other sounds. How loud can you be? How soft? Ask your child to experiment. Can you make a bird sound with sticks? What about a frog sound with stones? What does the wind sound like? Act out different weather scenarios using sounds and gestures.

LEARNING SKILLS Innovation, scientific exploration, creativity

Materials Household items, things found in nature

REST TIME

TRANSITION

ACTIVITY It’s time to relax. Establish a routine before naps that supports your child in calming his or her body and settling the mind.

LEARNING SKILLS N/A

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ACTIVITY Ask your child to play a hearing game. Place an item in each of five sealed containers you cannot see through (e.g., a marble, water, a potato, a shell, a pencil). Ask your child to shake each container. What do you hear? Can you guess what is in each container?

LEARNING SKILLS Listening skills, interpretation of dat

Materials Containers, small objects (a marble, water, a potato, a shell, a pencil)

Outside Time

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Child’s Choice

ACTIVITY This may be a good time to do the one thing your child wanted to do today. You can also do this activity anytime during the day.

LEARNING SKILLS N/A

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