Home School Activities Calendar November 2015

Theme
My Five Senses

Monday
2

Have

your

Tuesday
child

identify his/her senses.

Wednesday
your

child

Friday

3 Ask your child to use

to

5 Ask your child to think

6 Ask your child how

their sense of touch to

explore their sense of

about how their senses

he/she

describe

taste

are used at the same

senses to learn about

the world around them.

household

Ask

Thursday

by

describing

items. Ask them to use

foods as either salty,

time

the words: rough, soft,

sour, sweet or bitter.

hearing). You can also

hard, smooth and bumpy.

(Ex:

seeing

and

uses

his/her

use this time to discuss

how

blind

and

deaf

11 Put different scents

people use their senses.

12 Create a 5 Senses

13 Have a dance party.

game with your child by

on cotton balls

Collage using magazine

Listen

using foods from home.

( ex: perfume, lemon,

cut outs.

dance. Have your child

Blindfold your child and

strawberry)

have them identify the

your

food by using their sense

smell.

16 Listen to music from

of smell.
17 Using household items

18 Listen to different

19 Using their homemade

20

different cultures. Have

(ex. rubberbands, string

types

instrument,

have

your

Game-

your child descibe the

boxes, beans) help your

classical, fast, slow) and

child

their

own

sounds they hear.

child

have your child describe

music. Household objects

and

how it makes them feel.

(ex pots and spoons) can

recreate

pattern after you.

27 Food Guessing Game -

9 Take a neighborhood

10

walk and have your child

descibe

the

different

sounds he/she hears.

Create

make

smelling

musical

instrument.

child

of

and

have

guess

the

music

(ex

to

music

and

tell you what sense(s)

he/she is using.

make

Pattern/Clapping
Take

turns

clapping out a pattern

having

the
the

other
same

23 Have your child help

24 Mystery Bag - Put

25 Talk about why our 5

also be used.
26 Have your child try a

you cook. Talk about the

objects in a bag and have

senses are so important.

new food or drink . Let

Blindfold your child and

different senses being

your

them describe how it

have

used.

sense of touch to figure

tastes.

food they are tasting.

out

child
what

feeeling.
30 Have your child draw
or paint a picture of him
or herself using one or
more of their senses.

use
they

their
are

them

guess

the