This article makes the assertion that senses are fundamental to grasping the state of the world and ourselves. They are through which everything enters — beauty of life — the warm tinge in the sky signaling the end of a day or the soft hum of a lullaby. In the same way that they explore, the five senses are not merely a lesson where such information can be taught to children; it can be a mission, an exciting escapade that may help a child understand the physical world around him. In this article, your child and you will be traveling through five senses and they are sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch. After going through this part, your child should have gained some level of appreciation on how these senses operate and the roles they play in his/her life.
The Wonder of Sight
It comes as no surprise, therefore that sight can be considered as the most dominant sense. It enables one to distinguish the broader views of landscapes to a mere single grain of sand. The organ of vision, and the most important asset of man is the eye which is able to distinguish between colors and shapes. As light enters the eye, some passes through the cornea and the lens where light is formed into beams and directed to the retina. The back section of the eye, containing photoreceptors is responsible for converting the light into an electrical impulse that can be understood by the brain as vision.
Activities for Kids:
Color profiles: Collect various pieces of colored papers and cellophane and make a color wheel. Explain to your child that each color has its own opposite and invite them to explain how each of the colors make them feel.
The blindfold games: Ask your child to describe objects using his or her hands or nose while his or her eyes are blindfolded. That way, they are in a position to recognize the significance of sight in their everyday life play.
The Magic of Hearing
Seychelles contradicts the perception that the loss of one’s hearing is the loss of a smaller part of life as many a time, we get to hear things which cannot be expressed in words. It means we can speak and listen, listen to music and hear the sound when there is danger. The body of the ear is subdivided into the outer ear, the middle ear and the inner sections. Bronchial sounds reflect to the outer ear and move towards the eardrum in the middle ear. These vibrations are than spread to the inner ear where they are converted by the hair cells into electrical impulses that the brain can make sense of.
Activities for Kids:
Sound Identification: Record different sounds such as that of a dog or a car hooting and ask him/her to identify the picture that corresponds to the sound.
Listen and Draw: Radio some music and encourage your child to draw whatever he or she sees or he r heard. It assists the students come up with ideas on their own, and also makes them realize how sound affects emotions.
The Delight of Taste
Taste is one of the senses that are associated with pleasure and satisfaction. Without it we are able to taste different tastes such as a sweetness of a ripened strawberry or the sourness of a lemon. The taste buds located in the tongue are responsible for the organelle of the human taste and it is divided into five categories of tastes, sweet, sour, salty, bitter and umami.
Activities for Kids:
Taste Sensitization: Try giving your child a portion of various foods and varieties and ask him or her to tell you some words that describe its taste. It also informs them on what is good,-blissful, scrumptious, yummy -for -your-stomach, tasty, and even yummily delicious.
Experiment: Pour some spices or ingredients and without showing them to your child, let him or her guess what each is. This is more interesting as a way of introducing them to new types of canned fruits.
The Sensation of Smell
Taste is also an excellent method for providing an entity the ability to recall memories or experience emotions that are linked to a much younger time. It is directly related to taste and is therefore considered as important to sense of taste of a nation. The ability of the apparatus in the nose to analyze molecules or particles in the air is to send messages to the brain in a form that forms the various smells.
Activities for Kids:
Scent Relays: Cone small bottles of different scents on one place, then let your child sniff them in other areas of the house. This keeps the students alert due to the importance of using the sense of smell and plays an important role in making the teaching learning process fun.
Smell and Describe: For this activity, provide your child with a small portion of different types of smells such as flowers, spices among others and let him/her describe what he/she detects. This assists them in the growth of their descriptive words.
The Comfort of Touch
Tactile involves some approach of human body organs to an object in an attempt to gain access or territory an object. Thus, it informs us about the texture, temperature and pressure of the particular surface that we are touching. It is a organ that provides cover to our body and is very sensitive because there is many nerve ending that send information to the brain when an object is touched.
Activities for Kids:
Texture Recognition: Make buttons in the form of a box to contain textural items such as sandpaper, silk cotton etc, contain the items infront of your child and help him or her identify them by touch.
Temperature Recognition: Have your child experience if the item is hot, warm, cold or cool by touching it. This a good activity so as to enable them grasp a sense of temperature as a physical property.
Integrating the Senses
Sensory organs hence form a whole or a unit that work hand in hand to give us the complete picture of environment. For instance, when eating we satisfy the sensation of taste as well as smell which are used to relish the food, whereas for looks and feel the food has to be appealing. It is important that a child engages as many senses as possible in his tasks thus it can be recommended to use several senses during the activity.
Integrated Activities:
Sensory Bins: Take a bin and put various things in it such as rice, beans, toys etc and encourage your child to play with them but for this child can only touch them with hands, his/her fingers, mouth and eyes.
Straight Reading Comprehension: Cook with your child, forcing him/her to use his/her observing skills to identify utensils and things and explaining how it works.
Conclusion
It is a crucial thing in children’s development teaching them about the senses that are required. It is useful in enabling them develop their way of perceiving the environment and also in developing their cognitive and sensory skills. The following are among the activities that can be used to make learning about the senses more enjoyable for the child; Playing helps to develop their curiosity for knowledge thus gradually building up their understanding of the outside world. Keep in mind that each of our sense opens up a new world, a new adventure, for a child ready to be discovered like America.
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