We have been using just our sense of smell to try to identify smells: vinegar, lemon juice, toothpaste, coffee beans, vanilla essence and garlic. It was very tricky when we hadn’t used our sense of sight and we hadn’t been told what it could be. Our sense of smell was working on it’s own.

We have been tasting spreads on oatcakes. Lots of children tried foods they hadn’t tried before – BRILLIANT. We were using our sense of taste only. We closed our eyes and held our noses. Our sense of sight wasn’t so limited because we had seen the foods on the plate and had been told what the foods were. We tasted strawberry jam, marmalade, lemon curd, marmite, cheese spread and honey.

We are learning how our senses work together and how they can be limited e.g. when we have a cold and our sense of smell is affected, food tastes different.

Look at the grape Mrs. Clyde found on Friday! It’s shaped like a duck. Mr. McMorran brought it to show us with a duck timer to compare the shape. How strange!