Yavneh Academy Ganon Students Learn About the Senses

Yavneh Academy Ganon Students Learn About the Senses

Yavneh Academy Ganon students had a great time exploring their five senses. The children began by testing their sense of sight. They had the opportunity to walk across a three foot line of tape while blindfolded— which was quite difficult! To explore the sense of hearing, the children listened to an audio of various everyday sounds. They had a lot of fun as they identified car horns, running water, doorbells ringing and much more. The teachers then passed around several spices in order to test the sense of smell. Everyone was able to identify the cinnamon but many of the other spices such as nutmeg and onion powder were more difficult. Next, the children were given three spoonfuls of unidentified soft white foods. Because they all appeared so similar the children needed to use their sense of taste to identify them. After tasting each one, they determined that the sweet one was whipped cream, the tart one was vanilla yogurt and the sour food was sour cream.

Finally, a question was posed to the children, “Can a blind person read?” Understandably, the children thought the answer was no. However, they then examined a book written in Braille and taught that a blind person uses their sense of touch in the way a sighted person uses their sense of sight. The children concluded that senses are amazing!