K Science

Yes, i have been a bad blogger. My excuse is 3 kids keep me busy and schooling at least 2 of them has posed gigantic challenges this year! LOL! Its May now, and we're slowly settling into a routine (gufaw, gufaw - that's a tongue in cheek giggle for those of you that aren't familiar!) :)

So today I present you with our learnings. The middlest has been slowly working through her Science and History materials. We're doing Kindergarten this year, and on no set schedule, just when I feel that we've been slacking too much or she has been playing far too much time on online games.

Anyway, now that the formalities and apologies are over! We've been learning about the 5 senses courtesy of Aliki's "My Five Senses" book. We've been studying the sense of smell, so this morning I had her sniff the spice cupboard with her eyes closed and a few random selections from the fridge. We compiled a list of things she liked the smell of, and thing she didn't like so much!

So her 5 fav smells are Oranges, cookies, flowers, perfume and lemons
Her 5 not so fav smells are rotting apples, rotting food, paint, poo, and we put skunk on there because he was cute to look at! :)

We then experimented with how smells travel through the air. So one bathroom smells of bath and Body works Twisted Peppermint body spray (which I dislike!) and the other of lavendar Aromatherapy mist! She sat on one side of the room while I squirted the scent into the room and when she got a wiff, of it she let me know. It travelled slow and she has a stuffy nose... but it worked! :)

After that we made a digital collage of her fave and not so fav smells, which we glued into her notebook.