1. CD21 Chapters 8, 10, 12

2. Perception What is perception?perception Process of registering sensory stimuli as meaningful experience What is required to perceive? –Brain –Mind –Body –Emotions Does everyone perceive the same thing in the same way? How do special needs affect perception?

3. “Four Corners” Visual, auditory, kinesthetic People, tools, ideas Thinking, feeling, judging Introvert, extrovert Music, games and puzzles, dancing Be with friends, be alone, be outside Write in a journal, read a book, watch TV

4. Match your teaching to their learning? OR Match their learning to your teaching? Defend your position! Corner talk:

5. How to Match Teaching and Learning 1.Recognize that children learn in different ways 2.Recognize that one’s teaching style is influenced by their learning style 3.Teach in ways that honor a variety of learning styles 4.Discover and teach to children’s preferred learning style 5.Help children develop competence in their weaker sensory modalities

6. What do you do, Dear? 1.Recognize that children learn in different ways

7. What do you do, Dear? 2. Recognize that one’s teaching style is influenced by their learning style

8. What do you do, Dear? 3. Teach in ways that honor a variety of learning styles

9. What do you do, Dear? 4. Discover and teach to children’s preferred learning style

10. What do you do, Dear? 5. Help children develop competence in their weaker sensory modalities

11. Physical Senses - Traditional Visual – to see Auditory – to hear Tactile – to touch Olfactory – to smell Gustatory – to taste

12. Perceptive Senses - Montessori Chromatic – to perceive color Thermic – to perceive temperature Sterognostic – to perceive shape Baric – to perceive weight Kinesthetic – to perceive movement

13. ECE Art should be… #5 Active engagement #6 Intrinsically motivating #8 Developmentally appropriate #9 Legitimate artistic media #10 Individualized Paper making is all these things!

14. BREAK TIME: Rearrange the furniture! Move the tables! –We need 10 sensory tables placed around the room –Each sensory table has one chair facing away from the other tables –1 sensory table must face the window and the chair placed so the person can look outside –We need 2 writing tables with 2 chairs each –Put your stuff on a remaining “stuff” table

15. Sensory Exploration Activity Put all your stuff on a stuff table Put your note-taking paper and a pen/pencil on one writing table Move from table to table and explore the items there using the sense indicated. Spend about a minute at each station. Periodically go to the writing table and fill in your exploration worksheet

16. 10 Different Senses Visual: Look at I Spy Auditory: Listen to iPod Tactile: Touch cloth Olfactory: Smell spices Gustatory: Taste jelly beans with blindfold Chromatic: Order the shades of grey Thermic: Hot, room temperature, and cold packs Sterognostic: Touch bag Baric: Order items in the weight bag Kinesthetic: Look outside for movement

17. Visual: Look at “I Spy Christmas” 1.Open the book at random 2. See how many items in the riddle you can find in the picture

18. Auditory: Listen to iPod 1. Put on the headphones 2. Click the blue circle 4 times, slowly 3. Listen to “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” 4. Click Menu 4 times, slowly, to the beginning

19. Tactile: Touch cloth three ways 1.Close your eyes 2.Feel one cloth slowly with your entire hand 3.Feel cloth with your cheek then your arm 4.Select another cloth 5.Repeat touching sequence for several cloths

20. Olfactory: Smell spices 1.Select 5 spice cups 2. Bring one cup near your chin 3. Slowly and gently inhale to smell the spice 4. Move the cup away from your chin and slowly exhale 5. Repeat for remaining 4 spices 6. Return your spices to their original places

21. Gustatory: Taste jelly beans with and without smell 1.Pinch your nose closed 2. Select 2 pairs of jelly beans ( 2 each of the exact same color ) 3. Taste one of each color 4. Un-pinch your nose 5. Taste the other two of each color

22. Chromatic: Order the shades of grey 1.Lay out the grey squares so you can see them all 2. Put the squares of grey in order, lightest to darkest 3. Mix up the squares and put them back in a stack

23. Thermic: Temperature packs 1.Pick up one gel pack 2.Hold it while counting slowly to 10 3. Repeat with the other two gel packs

24. Sterognostic: Touch bag 1.Close your eyes 2.Put both hands into the bag 3.Roll each item, one at a time, in your hands

25. Baric: Order items in the weight bag 1. Take out the items in the bag and lay them on the table 2. Hold each one and place them in order of weight, heaviest to lightest 3. Replace the items into the bag

26. Kinesthetic: Look outside for movement 1. Sit or stand quietly and gaze out the window 2. Count slowly to 25 3. Look out, in as many directions as you can, to find things that are moving

27. Your Impressions Thoughts Ideas Questions Comments Concerns Plans Suggestions

28. Journal Page Chromatic: Shades of grey Thermic: Gel Packs Sterognostic: Touch bag Baric: Weight bag Kinesthetic: Outside movement Name ________________

29. Journal Page Visual: I Spy Auditory: iPod Tactile: Cloth Olfactory: Spices Gustatory: Jelly beans Name ________________