The Most Boring Day Of The Year!!

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Sensory Experiments with Maria Milititsky!

We had an absolutely incredible day today.  Maria had such a relaxed way with the children, and they were brimming with excitement! She brought with her a Mary Poppins bag, filled with all sorts of treats and curious items. We learned a great deal about how our senses can deceive us.  She demonstrated optical illusions like bendy pencils, how tasting is different without smelling, how tricky it is to eat a dry cracker when your tongue is dry, how our sense of touch varies depending on the part of the body, how two hands in the same bowl of water can feel the temperature to be different,  how hearing is different when there is a surface to bounce the sound and how smelling without sight can be tricky.

Carolina was her assistant for the morning, and she had plenty to say when Maria left.  She recapped the experiments brilliantly.  ‘If you only see through one eye, then you can’t see too well and the pencils don’t match up easily. Your eyes trick you.  In the wobbly pencil trick, it’s too quick to see the pencil moving.  So your eyes trick you.’

All the children had plenty to say, and I know that they will remember these experiments forever.

Thank you Maria, we had a fantastic time!