Science/Arabic - The 5 Senses

We continued our topic by reading about the 5 senses in a non-fiction book ("My Senses" from this series), which I then left in their book box so they were free to explore it whenever they felt.

We talked a bit about the 5 senses and how we use them to understand the world around us, then I quizzed them on which body part they thought they used for each sense (with them reminding me what each sense was!).

I then gave them another cut-and-stick worksheet to do, wherein they needed to match the sense with the body part (recap) as well as the Arabic translation for each sense (new vocab):

You can download the worksheet here.

This episode of Iftah Yaa Simsim is all about the 5 senses, so we watched it together as a recap. At 6:35, they sing a nice song about the 5 senses - even if, like us, you don't understand a lot of what they're saying, the chorus is simple enough and catchy! They use the indefinite form of the nouns, as opposed to the definite forms in our worksheet, but the words are definitely still recogniseable. 😊

The plan for the rest of the topic is to reinforce this new information by looking at one sense per day in more detail, through an activity/mini-experiment, insha'Allah. The Arabic vocab will also be reinforced on each day, too, as well as the associated verb (e.g. "I see ..." when doing about sight); so only two new words to focus on a day but they've already had the overview of all five nouns from the above worksheet.

Once we've looked at all 5 senses, I plan to take the kids out to a variety of different environments (e.g. the Botanical Gardens, ThinkTank, etc.) so they can link their 5 senses to Literacy and writing detailed descriptions. Insha'Allah a separate blog entry will follow for each thing!