THE GIFT OF SMELLS AND WORDS

Guiding ideas:
Reciprocity, the intangible gifts of smell and words.

Ingredients for today’s Lab:
The Gift of Words by, Peter Reynolds. Library of smells brought from teachers and families, more odds and ends, boxes, wrapping paper, ribbons, tape, scissors and earth smelling worms.

What just happened?!:

After Wendy read todays book, CLAUDIA recommended the words, “I Love You Mommy” LIVNEH recommends “I Love You Lola”. TOLI votes “Tigres!” and REY , “Chainsaws and tractors”. Then with Nicole, we explored two particular smells: garlic and ___. Did you know AZA is an expert smeller? With every centimeter of his whole being he scrunches himself so he can use every body part from toes to eyes to deeply inhale. Then, just as the scent enters his nose, his eyes let everyone know if the smell was AMAZING OR AWFUL

This is delicious, it smells like pizza
It smells like my grandma.
It smells like weird pancakes
Tooth paste and candy canes smell the same.
It smells like koala food.
Tiger Balm smells like a boat.
It’s an orange
I want to smell the berries.
I smell blue
You can make an old present a new present and give it to a new friend and then another friend.
Do you want to wrap that owl?
No he doesn’t want to wrapped
I need that it’s my tool to fix the unicorn.
No I need it -I am going to give it as a gift to Santa Claus