New & Familiar Smells

This morning some Pine friends wandered over to the garden to check out what, if anything, was growing. They looked around at different plants and commented on the colors and smells they experienced. 

"There are so many yellow flowers!"

"I can't smell anything."

"Yeah they don't smell like anything."

"These are different. They are yellow still. So small!"

"Look, they are smaller!"

E was really curious about why some of the flowers were smaller and closed up. He tried peeling some apart to find out, but was still unsure why they were different from all of the others. 

"I don't think it smells like anything. It kind of looks like a flower!"

V & C started looking closer at some of the small green leaves C picked off a plant. 

"They smell like something!"
"I don't like the smell."
"I think it's lavender, we have that at my house!"

C passed the leaves over to E. He, too, took a sniff. 

"It smells good! I don't know what it is."

T was interested in the green leaves too. He sniffed them and smiled. T asked if he could try it too! 

He put the mint leaf into his mouth, bit down, and scrunched his nose. 

"No, yuck!"

While exploring the garden, we continued our conversation about the weather and how it effects different things. 

"It's so hot out. It makes me sweat."

"Yeah, but it's cold in the shade."

"It's cold inside too because the air is on!"

"The plants need water when it's hot."