I Smell with my Nose

Today we talked about our sense of smell. During morning circle we talked about the calendar. We learned that this is the last week of February. Next week it will be March! We also reviewed the five senses and described the objects we felt yesterday.

Ms. Michelle came today. First we completed an obstacle course. The kids had to walk across the zig-zag balance beam. Then they jumped through the rope ladder. Finally they picked up a ball, jumped on 5 stars and then tossed the ball in a basket. After the kids completed their turn they went over to the alphabet train. They had to follow directions to find a letter, letter sound or the letter that is at the beginning of a word. Next we had parachute time. Ms. Michelle put lots of balls in the parachute and we made them pop high into the air. Then the kid had a turn running under the parachute.

Our story today was "What's that Awful Smell" by Heather Tekavec. Dog, Duck, Sheep, and the other animals want to find out what is making the awful smell in the barn. Finally they decide that the terrible stink is coming from a baby piglet. The animals do everything they can to rid the pig of his smell. They cover him in hay, wash him in mud, decorate him with flowers, and rub strawberries all over him. But nothing seems to work. Then Cat comes over to see what they are doing...hoping his friends didn't find his sandwich he was saving for dinner. Cat left his onion and tuna fish sandwich in the barn. The animals learned that the piglet didn't smell...it was Cat's sandwich! After reading the story we made a list of good smell and a list of stinky, icky smells. We liked to smell cookies, flowers, and candles. We don't like the smell of fish, garbage and rotten food. 

For science today the kids used their noses to smell and guessed what was inside six different cups. We passed around the cups covered with foil with holes in the top. We couldn't see what was inside....we could only smell it. After we smelled each cup the kids predicted what was inside and then we glued the correct picture to match the smell in our chart. We smelled onion, cinnamon, chocolate, vanilla ice cream, lemon and coffee. The kids favorite was the vanilla ice cream smell. 

For art we created smelly flowers to decorate our bulletin board outside. The kids had a piece of paper with a stem drawn. First we handed out a green colored paint that smelled like limes. The kids used the green paint to color the stem green. Then we used yellow paint that smelled like lemonade to make the center of the flower. The kids each painted a big yellow circle in the middle of the paper. Next we used purple paint that smelled like grapes to make the petals. We made big purple circles around the yellow circle to create the petals. After we were finished the room smelled like fruit and our flowers smelled great! We will let the flowers dry so we can use them for our spring board in the hallway! 

Today was a busy day using our nose to smell. There are so many wonderful things we can smell....and then there are stinky things we can smell too! Tomorrow we will listen with our ears to see what we can hear!