Sense of Hearing

For this one we used stickers we made from google images printed on address labels.  Music instruments, a phone, a microphone, a picture of an ear and two different types of horns.

Of course since these were stickers they loved it! 

Sense of smell Mr. Sketch marker work!

During our human body unit we devoted a couple of weeks to the five senses.  The Mr. Sketch markers are a fond memory of my elementary days so I made a work out of it!  We got the basic pack of 12 markers and printed out real images of each food they represented.  On the back of each card I used the matching marker to make a dot of color for control of error.  Then I made a black line image of each fruit for them to make their own booklet.

This is how they set it out.

After matching and self correcting each one to the color coding on the back of each card they could make a book using the smelly markers!  They really do smell even when on the paper!  The older child also wrote the name of the food on each page.  We were sure to tell them not to put the marker on their nose or they'd have a mark!

Because the markers are so strong I grouped the 12 papers together with a paperclip and they colored each one separately on an art mat, so that the color wouldn't bleed on to the one behind it.  They stapled it once they were done.

Sense of taste

For our sense of taste we first did a taste test at circle with sweet, sour, bitter, and salty foods!  Sweet was sugar cubes, salty was pretzels, sour was small lemon slices,and bitter was 100% dark chocolate!  They were so excited about the chocolate and I did warn them to take a tiny bite, but they just couldn't help themselves!  We saw some pretty good bitter faces!!

They then glued each food to the paper labeled 'My sense of taste'.  We lucked out and found fake lemon slices at Michaels and cut them in to fourths!  Much easier than gluing a real lemon slice!

Sense of smell

For the sense of smell work we got creative!  The rose petal is silk (a box from Michaels in the wedding section) and we sprinkled rose essential oil on to make it really smell!  The brown circle is cinnamon.  I put circles of glue on waxed paper and sprinkled cinnamon on it and let it dry for two days- worked great!  The cedar is cut from a tree on our playground, and of course coffee beans!

Sense of Sight

For Sense of sight we decided to go with all the rainbow colors!  We discussed at circle all the different things we can see with our eyes and how important they are!  

Some children glued random colors all over the paper practicing their one-to-one correspondence and the skill of using small glue dots, while others glued rainbows like this one :)

Sense of Touch

For the 5 Senses we focused on one each week.  For the sense of touch we put out objects representing soft, hard, fluffy, pokey, and rough.  Feathers, small rocks, beans, cotton balls, and sand were on the tray.  (I ended up switching to actual sandpaper instead of sprinkling sand to avoid the mess).

They glued each item on a piece of paper labeled "My Sense of Touch". 

 We hung them up on the wall under 'Our sense of touch' to display for the month!

All these senses activities were loved and well used throughout our human body unit!

Tooth Tonging (or pulling?)

The classic ice cube tray has so many uses in the Montessori classroom!  The plastic teeth fit just right in each compartment and the tongs are the perfect size.  The fact that the teeth open with be extra inviting!

Tooth Brushing

This is another tooth work!  I glued more of the plastic teeth from Oriental Trading on to a baby food jar.  I used extra sticky glue (not sure what kind) to be sure they didn't come off.  Baking soda is in the dish and they'll get just a little water in the extra cup.  The toothbrush is just the right size.

Teeth Flossing

For our human body unit we are going to spend a couple of days on teeth! My director came up with this idea when I was looking for some kind of original care of self activity when I was switching out our practical life shelves! I have a ton of these plastic teeth (they are from oriental trading and they are meant to hold a tooth and it's on a necklace string)  You buy them in huge packs for very cheap!  We had some balsa wood lying around from some wood sanding we did last year and I just hot glued the teeth on.

  We just used green ribbon for the floss!  Some of the teeth are easier to get in-between with the floss and some are harder!  Just like the real thing :)

X-Ray Art Work

While studying the human body I lucked out at my son's school's book fair and came across this book!  It talks all about x-rays, shows great pictures of inside both people's and animal's bodies, and it's written by kids!  I read this at circle and then showed the x-ray art work to follow!

 I first drew the bone lines on black cardstock (cardstock will hold the pasta better).  

I had the noodles all separated out on the tray for easy access and control of error.

They were able to do this on their own with the lines drawn in!  They looked great!

X-ray Picture

We've just started studying our human body unit last week and with all the talk of skeletons around Halloween I thought we'd start with just that!  We read a few books about skeletons on days prior, talked a bit about the details of bones, the fact that we are vertebrates, and if we didn't have them we'd be so floppy!
This activity was presented on the 3rd day of our human body unit and we'll leave it up for the next 6 weeks or so!

This was ordered from Montessori services.  It even has control of error on each picture so the kids can figure it out!  We layed them all out at circle, reviews our 'Dem Bones' song and started with the skull!  If someone thought they knew where it was they'd raise their hand and find it!  I walked over to the door with them to help them hang it up.