Our first class finally happened!!
Hello everyone!
As you may have noticed (or maybe not), I was away for two weeks because a “last minute” family trip came out and I had to attend it. But that doesn’t mean that our thursdays Big Kids Club is not happening, it just means that we just started and our fist class was amazing in every way.
Before getting into learning how some people have alternate abilities, either because they were born with a condition or maybe they develop it at some point in their lifes; we explored our five senses, since after all, some of us basically rely on our five senses to provide information about the world around us, but there’s people that can’t .
We all agreed that our senses allow us to enjoy our food, see colors, hear noises, feel textures, smell flowers…but also allow us to move around, to make decisions and even locate an object with our eyes, lift it up with our hands and maybe smell it with our nose? 😆
Superhero School’s story by Aaron Reynolds was the best way to get our big kids into the use of our senses and how important they are. Leonard, the kid in the story, is no ordinary kid—he’s enrolled in Superhero School, where leaping tall buildings in a single bound is considered child’s play but also it’s a place where a lot of kids with “special powers” attend. Some of them can’t use their eyes, so they have X-ray vision, others can’t use their legs so they have Titanium legs. Here’re some cool images from the book + link with info:
As soon as we finished reading this amazing story, we jumped into our hands-on activity called “Five Senses Self-Portrait” which consisted on using different objects to identify the 5 senses of the human body and how we relate each of them to something we can see over the table (using our eyes 😀 ).
These kids are so smart! … I asked them something short: “Tell me something about any of your senses” (I performed a few charades along with my question, of course) and their questions were so accurate and impressive that I had to take note of them so I could share them afterwards. Here they are 😆
Sylvie: “I don’t like spicy smells”.
Will: “We can taste food because of our tongue”, “Is that sandpaper?”.
Carter: “I can see small eyes in the table”.
Max: “I like the smell of flowers”.
♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
We began our portrait by adding our face, our 2 eyes, our mouth, our nose (with a cute little cotton ball) 2 ears and 2 hands! … waited a little for the glue to dry well and enjoyed feeling our portrait. It’s amazing!, this activity encouraged all the big kids to explore their senses, the hands were #1 in the class though, because they were made out of sandpaper, but everybody had so much fun 😆
For our next class (Oct 6th), we’ll start our exploration on the human body’s senses & alternate abilities and get ready for our upcoming fieldtrip on October 13th to SportAbility of BC right on Marine Drive.
See you soon! 😉
