good, bad, and stinky

February has been devoted to the teaching of the 5 Senses.

Smelling has by far been the hardest one for them to grasp. They only want to use words like good, bad, or stinky. When they smell something I say "What does it smell like?" And they usually reply with something like this, "It smells like coffee." I know what it is you are smelling but what does it smell like ... strong, bitter, sweet, earthy, dirty, fresh, clean ... and the list could go on. I was reading a book about the sense of smell trying to expand their vocabulary of smelling words. As I read the page about smelling fresh baked bread I asked them what that smells like ..... dead silence.

It was at that moment I knew we had to make bread! So we did :)

All the carefully measured ingredients went into the bread machine ... and by carefully I mean Kindergarten carefully

2 hours and 40 minutes later it was done :) And there were plenty of moments for teaching smelling words throughout this 2 hours and 40 minutes

Then it was time to taste test ...

The results: thumbs up :)

Then came science and we learned about wafting :) These pictures don't even do it justice ... some kids were waving their hands in the air while their nose was in the container. It was great!