Perception

-Ability to receive sensory impressions from the environment and relate them to what is known.

-Sensing, perceiving, thinking, and developing concepts

-example: a child hearing a church bell and relating it with happy emotions from the door bell at home

Sense+Perception +Feeling+thinking= concepts

1. visual

2. auditory

3. tactile

4. olfactory

5. gustatory

6. chromatic

7. thermic

8. sterognostic

9. baric

10. kinesthetic

Children with a ___ strength tend to be holistic thinkers.

-learn the big picture and not indivdual pieces

-read, write, or draw about what they are learning and are very interested in the finished project.

-think analytically and are good at listening and speaking

-enjoy discussing what they know and learn from listening to others.

tactile-kinesthetic

-strentgh prefer using their hands and bodies to learn

-thrive on hands-on activity to get the big picture.

-animated, learn by doing, and dislike sitting still and listening to someone trying to teach them verbally

Example: move around why thinking, count on fingers

-one indivdual learning strength becomes one's ____

-We teach in ways that are compatible and consisten with how we learn.

-Ex: teacher who is  a visual learner will use books and printed information to teach

-teacher who is auditory rely on teaching verbally and engaging children in dicussion

-Tactile-kinesthetic use manipulative materials, role playing, creative dramtics, and hands-on

Multisensory experience

-experiences that involve more than one sense

-ex: Making popcorn involves looking at and touching the kernels before, during and after popping, smelling the scent.

___ good opportunites for children to use their senses.

-involves looking and seeing

-visual exploration rather than a passing glance or quick look

-visual perception and discriminating between letters and words will be required for reading and writing

-Indoor classroom should be visually riched

Visual exploration materials:

prisms, mag. glasses, safety mirrors, microscope, camera, sunglasses, etc.

-water play with bubbles

-involves hearning and listening

-help children know when to switch from passive to active lisening

Fosters active listening:

-stethoscope

-tape recorder with stories

-CD player with music and story CDs

-rhythm instruments

-tuning forks

-music boxes

-bells

-metronome

-quiet time, sounds around us, water sounds, listen along

-sense involves feeling and touch

-may operat in conjunction with the visual sense

-touching to recognize something is called sterognostic and covered in a later section.

-a sensory table is a great way to support children's development

-examples: touching tour, fabric feel, how does it feel?, texture collage

-sense of smell

-green, yellow, and orange old little olfactory appeal

-scent bottles, it smells good enough to eat

-taste appeal

-value snack time

-Snacks and cooking, taste party

-broader sense of vision

-ability to identify, match, and discriminate among colors

-color seriating, color our world, create colors

-sense deals with perception of temperature

-how things feel: hot, cold, warm

-Fingers swim, temp. jars, how does it feel, thermic moves, thermic cooking

-being able to recognize objects through tactile-muscular exploration without the aid of vision

-closing your eyes while touching

-feely bag, blind fold game

-recognizing objects as heavy or light and gradations in  between

-weight jars

-involves whole body, sensorimotor muscular response

-making a child move like a tiger (ex)

-Musical moves, listen and move, shapes movement, Squeeze Mash and Tase, Artistic dramatic play, Keep on Movin', Gingerbread children