Cold and snow again...this winter doesn't seem over yet. Never mind, we got plenty of things to do indoors this week.

SCIENCE

We slowly started the animals project. M. chose to colour in (and out) the ostrich and the cheetah; while she was colouring I was describing the animal major physical characteristics, e.g. long legs, feathers, beak, also reminding her of how the animal behaved in the clip we saw on "Life". She was very interested and participative to the conversation.

The day after I drew a baby ostrich hatching from an egg and made her colour this in. The egg will be the connection element to the ostrich, like the honey will be for the bee and the butterfly for the caterpillar. Then I taped the animals onto a wrapping paper and made a poster. During the following weeks and months we will use it to put other animals which M. will find interesting.

5 SENSES

Today I started to make our 5 senses laboratory. I started from the sense of smell.

I used chocolates treat gift boxes, something that I had in my cupboard (no, I didn't eat all the chocolates!); they are small boxes with a lid where I made lots of tiny holes using a needle. Then I filled one with espresso beans, one with pepper corns and one with mix herbs. I put the lid back one and sealed it tightly with tape.

I will add more smells, one of which will be a dangerous one: chocolate powder! For the rest I still need some ideas.