The Senses

Today we had a brilliant visit to The Optical Centre in Trim (http://www.trimopticalcentre.ie/about.html ). Valerie booked out an hour in the morning to teach the children all about sight, how the eye works, what an optician does and more! She was so fun and the children had a great time! We can't wait to use what we learned today in our role play area next week. 

Many thanks to The Optical Centre for being so kind today!

We also finished our musical instruments today during Engineering Stations (for Engineering Week!). They make some great sounds, have a listen: 

The 5 Senses

We have been learning about the 5 senses in the Junior Classroom, and what body part we use for each sense.

Last week we created collages for each sense using pictures from magazines and played a senses bingo game...

 This week we discussed textures and different words to describe how something feels. We then made Texture Monsters... 

On Friday, for Science Week, we made popcorn! We thought of words for each sense about popcorn and then did a writing activity based on this. Best of all, we had to eat the popcorn to see how it tasted!!! Yummy...