We have been learning that our senses help us to make sense of the world around us.

Let’s start with our favourite sense! Our tongues are covered in thousands of tiny taste buds, which help us to determine if food and drinks taste bitter, sweet, savoury, salty or sour. During a test of crisps, dark chocolate, sultanas and lemon slices, the children recorded whether they did or did not like the taste.

Our noses are used to recognise things that smell nice, such as cakes baking in an oven or fresh flowers, and things that don’t smell so nice, such as trumps and sweaty feet. Our sense of smell helps to keep us safe. The smell of smoke alerts us to fire and the smell of sour milk warns us not to drink it. The children were brilliant at identifying the contents of our smelling pots: coffee, minty toothpaste, ginger, garlic and washing powder.

We use our eyes to see things. Many of us wear glasses to help us see better. When we returned from our walk, in the spring sunshine, to St. John’s church, we talked about all of the things we had noticed on the journey and in the church. We have also looked carefully at the frogspawn in the forest school pond.

Our ears help us to hear. In circle time this week, we enjoyed testing our sense of hearing when we played ‘Doggy, doggy, where’s your bone?’. We also noticed the sounds that instruments, water and leaves make.

When something touches our skin, our brains identify whether something is hot, cold, hard, soft, prickly, rough or smooth. What’s inside our feely box? What happened when we rubbed wax crayons on paper over the objects in our outdoor area?

Please notice which senses the children are using at home.

Thank you, Rev. Sharon….

….for welcoming us into your church and for teaching us that: stained glass windows helped people to understand Bible stories before they could read, organ music travels through pipes; a stole is like a scarf (but is definitely not stolen) and will be a different colour depending upon the point in the liturgical calendar or occasion and that the books we noticed contain the words to hymns. Well done, children, for sitting and listening so attentively. Thank you to all of the adults, who were able to join us for the walk.