{"id":202,"date":"2008-09-02T21:33:49","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T02:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/archives\/202"},"modified":"2008-09-02T21:33:49","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T02:33:49","slug":"teaching-the-5-senses-with-childrens-literature-you-cant-smell-a-flower-with-your-ear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/2008\/09\/02\/teaching-the-5-senses-with-childrens-literature-you-cant-smell-a-flower-with-your-ear\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Process Skills with Children’s Literature: You Can’t Smell a Flower with Your Ear!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Have you ever struggled to come up with a fun and creative approach to teach the 5 senses to your students? Well, look no further because Joanna Cole, the author of the book, You Can’t Smell a Flower with Your Ear!<\/a> has done exactly that. The fun and bright illustrations by Mavis Smith add a friendly and inviting touch to the book as well.<\/p>\n

The book’s text provides a fun way to learn about the 5 different senses. It provides examples that children could easily relate to and experience in every day life. The most impressive part of the book are the fairly complex concepts that Cole nicely simplifies into terms that your students will comprehend:”Nerves-like wires-carry messages about the picture from the back of your eye to special places in your brain (Pg. 13).” The illustrations also nicely compliment and further explain key ideas in the text by providing diagrams for each major sense. The book goes through all of the 5 senses and gives a “try this” portion where students could actually test out how each of their sense are being activated.<\/p>\n

\u00a0An example of a “Try This” would be:<\/p>\n

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“Dim the lights. Look at your eyes in a mirror. Are your pupils big? Now turn on a bright light. Did you see your pupils get smaller? Your pupils get bigger and smaller to let in just the right amount of light (Page 11) .”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Curriculum Connections
\n<\/strong> This book could be used to introduce students to different properties that could be observed by using their sense of sight, touch, hearing, feeling and smell. In the state of Virginia it would address the Standard of Learning 1.1 in the Science Standards of Learning, which looks at the differences in physical properties using the senses and how inferences can be made about a familiar object or event.<\/p>\n

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