We’re learning all about the sense of touch this week at The Children’s House – the children will be learning about how things feel using our senses, e.g. hot or cold, rough or smooth, hard or soft…we will be looking at textures of things in our environment like clothes we wear and toys we play with indoors & outdoors. The children will explore & find different textures all around them, & we will be doing Montessori activities like the Touch Boards (graded sandpaper from rough to smooth), Touch Fabrics (matching pairs of fabrics with eyes closed), Geometric Solids (feeling 3 dimensional shapes with eyes closed & guessing if they roll or not). We will also be playing games like Feather Tickle, & doing a Sensory Walking Mat. It’s really lovely to isolate & use our sense of touch in this way, & promises to be such an interesting & fun week!!

Sense of Touch (poem)

Skin, skin, we’re covered in skin,
Skin gives our sense of touch,
Skin, skin, we’re covered in skin,
Skin can touch so much…

Touch is feeling,
Hot or cold,
Touch is feeling,
Rough or smooth,
Touch is feeling,
Hard or soft for me…