Okido TruePDF issue 68 2019

Experiment with taste p.36, and with touch and sound p.38.. The 5 main senses are: taste, smell, hearing, sight and touch!. My grandma smells her hot chocolate again, pauses for a momen

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Okido helps children learn through

play It is full of stories, activities and

games that stimulate creativity and

inspire scientific interest.

This issue is all about senses

Start by writing your name:

Messy Monster

plays I spy (p.4)

Zim, Zamand

Zoom find out what senses are and what

we use them for (p.8)

Read Lita’s Magic Hot Chocolate story

(p.14) Discover how animals have super senses (p.31) Read

the Senses poem

(p.32) Experiment

with taste (p.36), and with touch and sound (p.38) Find Foxy

inside the Senses Fun Fair (p.40) Have fun and learn with Kaz (p.42).Make

some hot chocolate like Grandma Lita (p.44) Play the Walk

in the Park board game (p.47) Colour

in and doodle-do!

(p.20-30)

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Hello!

Do you know we have 1,2,3,4,5 senses? Let’s explore them!

Let’s play a game!

I spy with my little eye something

beginning with B

B? Ha ha ha!

Blue! It’s me!

A BLUE monster!

My turn

I smell with

my little nose something beginning

with P

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Ha ha ha! A poo! My turn!

I touch with my little hands some thing

beginning with F

F F F? Fur!

That’s my fur!

My monster furry tail.

I hear with my big ears something beginning with

Quick! Let’s run, that’s the ice-cream van!

Music!

We taste with our little

tongues, something

beginning with Y

Y for yummy!

It’s so good to have all these senses!

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Let’s use our

senses to find out

what it is

What are Senses?

What are ‘senses’?

Messy was in the kitchen earlier

Hmm, I’m not sure

That’s a good question!

YES! Let’s be detectives and use our senses to investigate it

Smell the sea

See my magazine

So our senses

will help us find

out what this

green thing is on

the table?

The 5 main senses are: taste,

smell, hearing, sight and touch

Zoom can you show us how we

use our senses please?

What does it

smell like?

You used your nose to SMELL it!

What colour is it?

You used your hands to TOUCH

it to find out how

it feels!

What does it

feel like?

red green

soft furry smooth

sweet smokey socks blue yellow

It’s not making any noise But I can hear with my ears someone singing

Happy Birthday It’s Messy!

What does it

taste like?

I’ll lick a small bit

YUCK! It tastes like CHEESE! But it’s kind of sweet

You used your tongue to TASTE it!

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It’s my Birthday cake, of course! I made it myself And you are all invited to

to my party!

So now you have used all your

senses to investigate What

do you think it can be?

Let’s go through what we discovered:

green

soft socks

no sound cheesy cake

HAPPY BIRTHDA Y MESSY!

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Lita’s Magic Hot Chocolate

Lita is my grandma, but she is not what you might expect a grandma to be like! Lita is very funny and she sings all the time She thinks nothing of climbing up onto the roof if the chimney needs fixing!

I love my grandma Lita

Today after school, I run to her house and I ring ring riiing the bell! She loves it when I ring the bell lots of times because she knows it’s me!

“Hola Lola!” she sings, opening the door, “Brrr, quick-quick, it’s so cold outside!”

“Hello Lita! I’m freezing!” I say

“Come in and warm up in the kitchen I’m going to make us some of my magic hot chocolate,” she says, dancing along the corridor

“Ah-haa! Here you are! Come little pot, you’re going to be perfect for cooking my magic hot chocolate!” she exclaims.

Lita lets me pour the milk into the pot and she puts it on the cooker

Then she climbs up the kitchen

shelves to get the precious box

of magic cocoa (Did I forget to

mention my grandma is very

small?)

“Why is it magic, Lita?” I ask

“ Hush, hush, I’m going to

melt the chocolate Smell,

the magic is coming,” she

answers mysteriously

Then she fills two big

cups of the dark potion

and puts them on the

table

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“Hmm, it smells delicious Lita,” I say.

“It does Lola, and it brings back so many memories ”

“What memories?” I ask

“When I was a little girl, a long time ago, in my little village on the top of the mountains, very, very far away in La Sierra Nevada ” she pauses

“Please tell me Lita!” I cry

My grandma smells her cup

of chocolate again

and closes her eyes

with a big smile

“I was six or seven and

it was winter I was

with my brothers and

sisters and we were

waiting for our mother

to come back from the

market down in the

valley.”

“I was looking out of the window, when suddenly I saw

snow flakes falling from the dark grey sky

‘Snow! Snow!’ we screamed, and jumped up and down with joy We all

ran outside and tried to catch the white little flakes ” Lita opens her

eyes and looks at me

“Then what happened Lita? Tell me!”

“The snow fell thicker and thicker, and soon the whole village was

covered in white We made snowballs and we jumped and ran and slid

down the snowy slopes

But after a while, we could not recognize anything anymore ”

“Oh no, Lita! Were you lost?” I ask

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My grandma smells her hot chocolate again, pauses for a moment and then continues her story.

“Yes, it was dark and cold and silent We grabbed each other’s hands and started to call for help in a panic

‘Hello, hello ?’ but only the wind answered, ‘Wooo, woooo ’”

“Oh no! Were the wolves coming, Lita?” I gasp

“No, no, that was only the sound of the wind through the trees, Lola!” My grandma winks at me, smiles and continues her story

“Suddenly we heard voices calling, coming closer and closer

‘We’re here!’ we shouted back Very quickly our mother

appeared, followed by all our neighbours We were saved at

last! Oh how happy and relieved we were! And very cold and

hungry!

We all hugged, laughing and crying,

and walked back to the village

When we got home, my mum put a big pot of creamy milk on the stove Then she opened a box of chocolate she had brought back from the market and poured it in the pot

A delicious smell filled the room I will never forget the marvellous feeling of being all together, happy and warm.”

“That’s why your hot chocolate

is magic Lola Every time I make

it, the smell will bring back

memories.”

“It does that for me too Now I

will always think of you when I

smell this magic hot chocolate!”

I love my grandma Lita

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Let’s Okidoodle!

What does this face need?

Draw for hearing Draw for tasting Draw for smelling Draw for seeing Draw for touching

Add up the sums in the socks and draw a line to put them in the right laundry basket.

Smelly Socks Maths

Senses word jumble

Can you find the words below in the jumbled-up word grid? Letters have to

be next to each other The first one has been done.

r

e e

e h

n

n d

.

Juanita and her friend Kasper are walking in the woods

What animals can they see?

What prickly things should they not touch?

What sweet things can they taste?

What can they hear singing?

Something smells really bad What is it?

A walk in the woods

Music classes!

Help Jo find the quickest route to her cello lesson.

Which musical instruments does she hear on her way?

Saxophone, drums, trumpet, banjo, accordion, harp, piano, bass guitar and trombone - colour them in!

Colour-in the sense you use for the following (it can be more than one):

Which sense?

Owls have HUGE eyes for super seeing.

Cats use their whiskers as

an extra sense of touch.

Moles have a super sense of touch

too, but can’t see very well. Messy Monster can smell as well as a dog!

Did you know that pigs have a super sense of taste?

Animals have super senses!

If I was a bat,

I would have super hearing!

Poem by Gabby Dawnay Illustration by Alex Barrow

I see the sea splash on the beach

I spy the boat just out of reach.

I taste the salt and breathe the air, And jump the waves without a care.

And from the corner of my eye,

I spot a seagull in the sky.

I hear its squawk - an urgent screech,

I watch it circling round the beach.

I taste the ice cream on my tongue

That’s melting in the warming sun.

I feel the tickle on my skin

As ice cream trickles down my chin.

AT THE SEASIDE

I build a castle in the sand And let its grains run through my hand.

I pick up pebbles smooth and round, And search for treasures lost and found.

I climb the rocks, I touch the top

I shudder as I spy the drop

-I turn towards the sea once more

And watch it as it hits the shore.

I feel alive, I feel I’m me.

I love it here, beside the sea…

And as I look for distant ships,

I smell my supper – fish and chips!

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You can smell a cake burning You can taste if your food is bad.

What other dangerous things can you detect

with your senses?

Our senses make us aware of danger

You feel pain when you touch

something spikey You can hear a car toot You can see a car coming.

What other nice things can you detect with your senses?

I can smell a flower I can taste strawberries.

I can hear a bird sing.

Our senses make us aware of nice things

I can see a rainbow.

I can touch a cat.

Taste experiment 1

Try this test to discover how many different

senses you use when you eat your food.

Gather your food together and then

ask an adult to help you put on a

How does smell and touch help you when

you can’t see? Similar shaped objects can

be confusing to tell apart Now try these

comparisons:

Next, the adult gives you one of the foods You can feel it in your hand first.

You will need: a blindfold

Foods such as peas, sweet corn, grapes, cherry tomatoes, dried fruit and mixed nuts

2

3

Check in case of allergies!

TOUCH skin SMELL nose TASTE

tongue

Taste experiment 2

To taste and recognise what we eat, we often use our sense of touch, eyes

and especially our noses! Taste is not just on the tongue!

Ask a grown-up to help

you chop the food into

similar sized cubes Label each one

so you know which is which.

Now pinch your nose and try the first

cube Write down what you think it is

Try another until they’re all finished.

Now you can turn over the pieces of paper and see how many you got right!

Put all the cubes on a tray and place the labels face down next to each one.

You will need: some toothpicks, a pencil and paper Foods of similar colour such as

peeled cucumber, apple, pear, banana, cooked potato and cheese.

2

TASTE tongue SEE

You will need:

pasta sweets

Some mixed objects:

Place your chosen objects on a table or on the floor in front of you.

Put a different group of

objects in each sock

Leave an example of each

object out to help when

they are matched later

Using touch and sound, help Messy and Grumpyko guess what’s hidden inside the socks!

Tie the end of each filled sock with an elastic band to stop the objects falling out

Mix up all the socks and get

a friend to guess what’s inside each one by touching and shaking them

Messy’s sock experiment

6 old socks bubble

wrap

lego bricks

toys rice marbles

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Record the results in the table below, add your own objects in the blank columns:

Touch and squeeze!

TOUCH

Guess what’s inside!

OKIDO is delighted to be working with the British Science Association for British Science Week 2019

One activity inside OKIDO magazine, attending an OKIDO Art and Science session or after-school

club session all count as one STAR challenge Children can complete eight STAR challenges to gain

Foxy is at the Sensational Senses fun fair.

Find Foxy

Match the actions to the senses There could be more than one answer for each action.

Which of these delicious cakes is the same as the first?

Draw a line from Kaz to the cake, making sure not to touch the insects along the way,

answers p.46

Kaz is using her senses to find her way to the concert Follow the sounds,

smells and sights!

What colour will the next musical note be in this sequence?

Grandma Lita’s magic hot chocolate

You will need:

Makes around 6-8 hot chocolate sticks

How to:

An ice cube tray

A bar of dark chocolate

A bar of milk chocolate

A bar of white chocolate

Lolly sticks

Mini marshmallows

Break up the bars of milk and dark chocolate into smaller pieces and place in a bowl Pop the bowl

of chocolate in the microwave for

30 seconds and give it a stir to make sure it’s melted.

Now you’ve read Grandma Lita’s story, let’s make her famous hot

chocolate Mmmm perfect for a cold winter day! The chocolate

sticks also make great gifts when wrapped in a little tissue paper

or clear film bag.

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Get an adult to help you chop up

the white chocolate into little

pieces Sprinkle some of it in the

bottom of your ice cube tray.

Pour the melted chocolate into the ice cube tray and sprinkle the top with marshmallows and more white chocolate bits.

Stick a lolly stick in the middle of

each chocolate cube Leave the

tray to set for a few hours in the

fridge

To make your hot chocolate:

Gently squeeze the ice cube tray until the chocolate sticks come out

Now you’re ready to make hot chocolate!

SMELL nose

SMELL nose

TASTE tongue

TOUCH skin

TOUCH

skin

TOUCH skin

Start

Follow Kaz as she

walks through the park

Put your counters on the

start and take it in

turns to roll the die

When you land on an

icon, find the matching

sense This might move

you ahead OR behind

For example if you land

SEE eye

SEE eye

SMELL nose

TASTE

tongue

TASTE tongue

TASTE

tongue

HEAR ear

HEAR ear

TOUCH skin

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Kaz’s answers

will the next musical note

be in this sequence? Match the actions to the senses

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FAN PAGE!

Bea (6) drew Messy

Monster in the window.

Giles (4) sent us this fab drawing of Messy.

Riley (6) drew Zoe, Felix, Zim, Zam and Zoom.

Otto (6) and his homemade drum.

Maggie (3) and Bernard (5) made their own Blood Expressway.

Rafa (1) and Theo (3) get stuck into their copies of Okido.

Lily (4) made Messy’s secret code machine and decoded the story.

Olivia (3) made the vampire

soup and cheesy ghosties.

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