Smell-icious

Today we talked about smell.  The process is definitely hard to explain (not that I'm qualified!), but we played a fun game of smelling different things with our eyes closed to see what was in my hand.  Ford never wants to close his eyes for things like this, but the girls loved it.  I just would let him smell last and cover his eyes.  They did a great job of waiting for everyone to smell before they tried to guess out loud.  We smelled cinnamon, dirt, and Play-Doh.  It was actually pretty funny.  We could have kept going but they wanted to draw noses.  That turned out to be extremely hard.  We talked a lot about how most people have a hard time drawing noses on faces, but they did a great job.  I'll be interested to see what the noses they draw look like from now on.  We read a book a while back that had a funny joke about a girl with three nostrils, so they knew that term already.  We spent a lot of time just playing today and doing things they wanted to do.  For handwriting today we got out the Handwriting Without Tears wooden pieces and made lots of letters.  Rachel made them on the mat, Ford made them on the paper that comes with the blocks, and then after they had done several Ruby wanted to try.  I was very impressed with how well she made letters!  It was like a puzzle to her and she loved it!!  I think she and Ford are definitely hands-on learners.