My Plan…

Look into my eyes, and you will see what you mean to me…

Listen. Do you want to know a secret?

So go and powder your cute little pussycat nose…

Reach out and touch somebodies hand…

The taste of your tears just tears me apart..

My plan is to do some ‘worky type stuff’ on The Senses today. They are both pretty good already at what I want to cover – body parts for Scarlett and actual understanding of the senses for Davies.

As we have been up since 5.30am (don’t even ask 🙁 ) we have already made a bit of a start – we used the Mr Potato Head to talk about which bits of the body go where and what we use those parts for. Later I have a bit of a plan to either to life size drawn round shapes of the kids and then get them to stick on body parts I have cut out of magazines in the right places (although that may of course not happen!).

Currently they are playing with some playdough we have made inspired by Jan linked into our senses theme. We made purple lavender, orange mandarin, green eucalyptus and pink geranium with essential oils and food colouring. Davies weighed out the ingredients and stirred the dry stuff, I did the kneading and adding of oils and colouring, Scarlett told us what colours they were and Davies talked about what senses we were using to make them – touch for the mixing and kneading and to determine whether it was hard/soft, cold/hot, heavy/light and so on, eyes for checking what ingredients we used and how much the scales said, and what colour we put in, smell for the different scents, and listening to hear me telling them what to do. (I believe Scarlett may have also used taste to determine that although pastel coloured pretty scented playdough looks and smells yummy it is actually not that nice to eat 🙂 )

I also have a plan to drag them out if there is a gap in the grey drizzle outside (which has called off the potential park visit – oh well!) to go to the shops for some baking parchment to make a chocolate cake for tea.