The Senses

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Senses are the physiological capacities within organisms that provide inputs for perception. The senses and their operation, classification, and theory are overlapping topics studied by a variety of fields, most notably neuroscience, cognitive psychology (or cognitive science), and philosophy of perception. The nervous system has a specific sensory system or organ, dedicated to each sense.
Human beings have a multitude of senses. In addition to the traditionally recognized five senses of sight (ophthalmoception), hearing (audioception), taste (gustaoception), smell (olfacoception or olfacception), and touch (tactioception); other senses include temperature (thermoception), kinesthetic sense (proprioception), pain (nociception), balance (equilibrioception) and acceleration (kinesthesioception). What constitutes a sense is a matter of some debate, leading to difficulties in defining what exactly a sense is

The 5 senses unit/theme is used all year long in my kindergarten classroom.  Young children learn by seeing, tasting, touching, smelling, and hearing.  I incorporate as many of the senses in everything that we do to ensure that the children learn in the very best way. At the beginning of the year we do a small mini-unit on the senses and introduce them.  Then we do other activities all year that use as many of the senses that we can.  This way we are reinforcing our learning and making sure that we are using our senses to learn about our world, etc

Some of the concepts covered by teaching about the five senses are:
    People have five senses: touch, taste, smell, sight, and sound.
    People use their five senses to learn about the world around them.
   ♥ People have two ears for hearing.
   ♥ People have two eyes for seeing.
   ♥ People have a mouth and tongue for tasting.
   ♥ People have a nose for smelling.
   ♥ Our senses help us to gather information.
   ♥ Frequently, we use more than one sense at a time to explore and enjoy the world around us.