Using the 5 senses

If you've asked your children what they've been working on in science recently, hopefully they've mentioned the 5 senses.  We dedicated time to using all 5 of them the past few weeks.

This week they put their skills to the test.  I brought out an item and told the children to play along with me.

"Pretend you don't know what this is."

I asked them to pretend they've never seen it before.  I asked them to not use the word.  If they pretended they had never seen it or knew what it was, they wouldn't be temped to use the word when describing how it smelled or tasted.

How did they describe this "mystery thing?"  Here are a few examples of their work: