Today is…Monday Nov 22 2010
We got our snow gear on.
We had prayers.
We looked at our Gospel picture.
…we were running a little late for Gym.
We survived the snow and cold and made it home for a well earned snack of hot chocolate.
During snack we looked at a book about the sense of Smell.
We played a game from the book that involved someone hiding a smelly thing (like strong cheese) and then someone else trying to sniff it out.
We used an onion.
We discovered that our sense of smell sucks.
Really, we could only smell the onion if it was right under our noses.
Nose fail.
Then we played some charades:
“grasshopper”
“elephant”
After lunch and Ettin went for his nap, I played a different smelling game with Giant.
I put different smears or drops of food and extracts on cotton balls, shoved the cotton balls into some paper tubes, and gave them to Giant:
Giant smelled them…
…and wrote down what he smelled:
Then, in spite of Galoot having a blaster,
and in spite of Galoot hanging out for most of our lesson game,
and in spite of Galoot being a grump for most of the lesson game,
and in spite of the fact that mechanical pencils can be way more interesting than a lesson game,
we actually got some neat work done.
Giant thought peanut butter smelled like “nuts”
that almond extract smelled like “MrsHMlo” (marshmallow)
that chocolate extract smelled like “choclit”
that red licorice smelled like a “carit” (carrot)
that an onion smelled like an “unein” (this is impressive sounding out, just so you know. )
and that lemon juice smelled like “lemin.” (okay, actually I told him that one. The lemon juice just really didn’t smell like anything.)
Then he got to do what he had been itching to do for the whole lesson game:
take apart all the little paper and cotton ball scent tubes and see what mysteries lay inside.
