11th ENTRY: 19TH OF NOVEMBER

Time to GOODBYE

It has been a pleasure working on the topic “The 5 Senses” with all of you. We are so proud of the result and we'd like to thank you for your effort and cooperation in all of the activities. Sincerely we are very impressed with your daily work and your involvement in "The Corner of the Senses". 

We hope you have enjoyed!

Javier (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

Now, let's prepare for the next topic!!

10th ENTRY: 18TH OF NOVEMBER

Finally the day we have been waiting for has arrived!

Today is the day of “The Corner of the senses"

This is corner you have designed is an awsome sensory experimentation through the five senses. All of these has been created by you , students,  and you have spent a lot of time searching, investigating, and exploring the content using the TIC, bringing materials for sensory experimentation and being creative in all of your ideas.

As you know, in your corner we have been placing materials each week that you can taste, smell, touch, hear, and see...

Now is time to impress your other classmates showing how good adventurers you are and all you have learnt!

Let's start!!

9th ENTRY: 14TH OF NOVEMBER

I don't like this! This is too salty!! Oh, how sweet this dessert is!! ... I'm sure that all of you have used or haver heard these phrases ...  

Your tongue allow us to classificate each flavour, do your know? TASTE is incredible!

Activity 1: “It tastes of ...”:

First of all take your computer and and investigate the different tastes it can be. Search for an example of each of them and to have clear the flavour.

Everybody again in groups!! In this case the leader will be the only one with the eyes uncovered.

The rest of the group must cover their eyes and sit in silence in their table.

The leader must give carefully and ramdonly some of the food they have bought  to the rest of the group. They leader must also take notes about how their classmates describe the flavour first and then trying to guess what it is.

What flavour have they taste?

Do they discovered the foods?

Are they correct?

Does everybody like or doesn't like the same food?

                              Activity 1: Thinglink it!:

First of all search for some pictures about different kinds of food. Then, do a collage with 

http://www.fotor.com/es/collage/

Upload your new collage in Thinglink. If you don't know, investigate what thinglink is. Finally, put tags of what taste is in each of the food in the picture.

(Search for a tutorial it is difficult for your to understand this progmme)

THE MOST IMPORTANT NOTE WE'VE EVER WRITE!!!:

Adventurers!! Now we are soooo close to obtaining our finally project “Corner of the senses”. This final project will be your evaluation so YOU MUST DO AS BETTER AS YOU COULD to reach for the best mark

This day, you  by your own must review EVERYTHING we have discovered during this weeks, ALL ABOUT THE 5 SENSES

So now, talk in your groups. Collect all the things you have done these days (virtual and physically). 

THE NEXT DAY YOU ARE GOING TO BE TEACHER FOR A DAY. YOU MUST EXPLAIN WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNT THIS DAYS WITH THE MATERIAL YOU HAVE.

EACH GROUP OF THE CLASS IS GOING TO EXPLAIN A SENSE BUT...

WHO EXPLAIN WHICH?

YOU ARE NOT GOING TO KNOW IT UNTILL YOU ARRIVE TO THE CLASS.

IN THIS WAY YOU MUST THINK HOW YOUR GROUP WILL EXPLAIN EACH OF THE SENSES.

To show all you know about this topic, we are going to invite the rest of the classes of the same year.

Luck for all of you!!! Remember, revise and prepare all of the activities we have done until now in the class. 

It will be an awsome and fun day!!

 Your proud teachers,

Lola, María and Trini

8th ENTRY: 11TH OF NOVEMBER

Let's think for a moment!!!

Has happened to you that when you enter to your house and breathe deeper you're absolutely able to guess the food thet is preparing your mother or your father?

But...how can you know what it is cooked if you haven't seen the food? 

How amazing is all we can discover just with the sense of the SMELL, isn't it?

Dennis Wong (CC BY 2.0)

Activity 1: “My air freshener”

There are a lot of things that have quite strong smell. All your classmates have bring something with an strong good smell (or maybe bad!!)

Let's make a bag with the pieces of fabric you have also brig (search in the internet an easy way of doing it or try yourself). 

The thing is that what it is inside the final boxes it must be not visible.

Now we have our own air freshener! But...  How do they smell?

One of the components of the group must close his/her eyes. The rest must bring close the bag to his/her nose. Then, he must say if it smells good or bad and try to discover what is inside without the other senses, JUST SMELLING.

Take notes for your blog-post of what he/she thinks for your blog-post!

IMPORTNAT NOTE: Each of the different groups of the senses must bring something (not too big) that they like to eat and they don't like its flavor. 

The taste is waiting us children!!!!

Your teachers,

Lola, María and Trini

7th ENTRY: 7TH OF NOVEMBER

How do we know if an object is smooth, rough, soft, or if it is hot or cold? 

The sense of TOUCH helps us discover this.

Activity 1: Touch, touch!

 Did you all bring objects with different textures from anywhere?

Awsome!! 

Now, every group must pass their objects to the group next to them (in the direction of clockwise).  

Then, you with all your group touch every texture and classify if it is hard or soft, rough or smooth, hot of cold ... Investigate on the internet how the textures can be!!!

Make the classification in a blog-post!

Activity 2: “Pinterest me”

 Once the you know how to distinguish between the different types of textures, you must prepare your mobile, tablet or iPad! 

You have now to take a series of photos about objects, natural elements, etc...that have different textures. 

After this, upload them to a website called PINTEREST. Put the different photos there and telling the different textures you have capture with your mobile. 

Are you sure you can recognize the different textures?

Really?

Show us!

IMPORTANT NOTE: The last sense is getting jealous. Next day we're going to work in it! PLEASE, DON'T FORGET to bring different things that can be inside a small box and that smells strongly. Whatever you have or you can find anywhere, ask your friends, parents, look for ideas on the internet....

AND DON'T ALSO FORGET: scissors, piece of fabric and thread.

Your teachers, 

Lola, María and Trini

6th ENTRY: 4TH OF NOVEMBER

Activity 1: Listen to me!

With the little bottles that you with your group have brought toclass, let's move them like maracas!!!

You have to shake the bottles to find the pair with the same sound. For this, take one bottle and listen to it carefully. Then take another and compare the sound. 

If they don't, you have to leave them in their place so another of your classmates can check. 

When one of the students find the correct bottles with the same sound she/he must guess just with her/his ear what it is inside.

At the end, we will open the little bottles to see what is inside, and if you were correct or not on the contents.

Redact an inform of all that happen in your blog-post ;)

 Activity 2: “My beatbox group”

After you have discovered your sense of sound and  learned how to associate sounds, is time to be more professional... Now you have to create your own song. 

For this, we will utilize INCREDIBOX, an application between creation and entertainment, with which you will become directors of a human beatbox group.

Search for a tutorial or just try it!! Maybe you can discover how it works by yourself

.http://www.incredibox.com/#/application 

IMPORTANT NOTE: The next day of class, you must bring objects with different textures or temperatures that we can notice with the touch (They can be from your house, playground, etc...) 

Just a few days later adventurer!!!!

Your teachers,

Lola, María and Trini

5th ENTRY: 31ST OF OCTOBER

We will continue with the sense of HEARING

Activity 1: What sound is it?

 

You, with your groups, have to record some sounds made by your own body. Then, put your sounds in a Power point without any pictures or letters and uploud it on Youtube.
Then exchange your link with other group.
You must guess what is what you are listening and note it in the computer. 

Try to guess the sounds of the other groups.

Activity 2: Deaf for a day

What do you think about doing an experiment?  

Please, with the plugs you have brought to class, put in carefully in your ears and try and talk amongst yourselfs WITHOUT SHOUTING. 

What can you hear now? Is it difficult to understand what they are saying? And, even if you ask for your teahcer's help... can you control all that is happening?

After 10 minutes, unplugged your ears and try to do the same things.

How is now the difficulty? Is it more or less? 

Sit for a moment and think about what life would be in school if you were deaf. 

How could you pay attention to your teacher? How could we hear our classmates? How can you play in the playground?

You must always keep in mind that there are deaf people who work, study, go everywhere, do sports ... 

How do they do it?? 

Investigate and discuss with your group. 

Take notes for your blog-post of the day.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The next day you must bring 6 bottles to class that must contain different elements inside that you can hear when you shake them (whatever you want! Investigate about it!). 
YOU MUST DO 2 BOTTLES WITH THE SAME ELEMENT INSIDE.
There are many materials that you can use! 

Your teachers,

Lola, María and Trini