Kindergarten at Home - Day 32 - Sense of Touch

Science meets Art: Sense of Touch.  Today, we explored our sense of touch through creating a work of art utilizing different textures.  Represented in my daughter's original caterpillar artwork are textures ranging from rough to soft.  Feathers are soft.  Pompoms are round, tall and soft, and squishy.  Glitter is rough.  Pasta is rough and soft at the same time, and is hard and solid!  Leaves are soft and crinkly.  Brother (who is 3, going on 4) got to make one too.

Then, we played a game where you must rely on your sense of touch alone to guess what an item is behind your back.  I tried to choose objects with different texture attributes, and different levels of solidity.

Language Arts - Reading Comprehension: Using visual and verbal clues to help you predict what will happen next in a story.  The pictures and the words in the story can both help lead you towards what might happen next, or what to expect in a story.  We bought this really cool Pop-Up book from Costco and in the pictures below, she is interpreting the pages to her brother, and showing me how the Unicorn leaps from the page!  The book also utilizes her sense of touch when she is able to flip different objects on each page, and make certain items move.

For "recess" today, we got to go see the movie Brave at the local discount theater/nickel arcade (the theater plays movies after the initial release period, up to the DVD release.  I love these type of theaters because you can take the whole family for close to the same price as one ticket at a new-release theater!  Only $8 for the three of us!  Plus, the theaters are usually not packed.  This one has an arcade, so if the kids are too cranky for the movie, you can cheer them up with a few nickel games!).  We met up with one of my girlfriends and her 2 1/2year-old son; it was his very first real movie!  The kids loved the movie, but there are a couple scary scenes with a mean bear, which prompted my son to climb in to my lap.

Technology Studies: Typing letters A-Z, plus numbers 0 - 9.  The kids did this lesson together, taking turns who would be able to find and press the requested letter or number key.  [note: my daughter is letting the Unicorn from her pop-up book watch too]