The Five Senses

We are going to talk about the five senses this week and started today with Sight.  We talked about parts of their eye, what a blind person is and how they cope with not being able to see, and then we've spent a lot of time just talking about what we see around us.  We also played a game where I drew a picture of something in the house on a map (that we actually made out of Play-Doh, so these are rough drawings in the Play-Doh!) and they had to find the gold coins hidden in or near whatever I drew.  Some of them they got quickly, but some of the pictures they really had to work on figuring out what the object was.  The hardest one for them was the bathroom sink!  We spent most of the morning just catching up on chores and getting back in our groove for the week.  They each switched to helping with a new chore this week.  Ruby learned how to start the dryer, Ford helped unload the dishwasher, and Rachel got the playroom in order.  Then we played Play-Doh and "New Fairy" for awhile before heading down the hill for a picnic with Vanessa and the boys.  We tried a new recipe for lunch out of Rachel's cookbook.  It was a bagel half with a slice of cheese and an apple slice in the oven at 350 for 5-10 minutes.  Vanessa and I thought they were delicious.  The kids liked them, but I think they were more excited about playing outside!