IT training okido TruePDF issue 68 2019

The Arts
& Science
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for Kids
Stories
Experiments
Games
Doodles
Recipe
& a poem
Issue #68
Senses
Okido is a monthly
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aged 3 to 7

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Hello Okido readers!
Welcome to your magazine.
This issue is all about senses.
Let’s find out more, explore,
play and have fun making,
cooking, colouring and
reading. Enjoy!
Start by writing your name:

Messy Monster
plays I spy (p.4).
Zim, Zam and
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)

Okido helps children learn through
play. It is full of stories, activities and
games that stimulate creativity and
inspire scientific interest.

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

4

Story

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

5


I touch with my little
hands some thing
beginning with F

Ha ha ha! A
poo! My turn!

F. F. F? Fur!
That’s my fur!
My monster
furry tail.

I hear with my big
ears something
beginning with...

...M

6


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!

7

D

Questions with:

z m, z m & z

What are Senses?

m

What’s this
green thing on
the table?
Hey dudes!
Messy invited
me over - have
you seen him?

Story by Dr Sophie and
illustrations by Alex Barrow

Messy was in
the kitchen
earlier...

Hmm, I’m not sure...

What are ‘senses’?
Let’s use our

senses to find out
what it is.

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That’s a good
question!


So our senses
will help us find
out what this
green thing is on
the table?

Story

The 5 main senses are: taste,
smell, hearing, sight and touch.
Zoom can you show us how we
use our senses please?

Taste my noodles

Smell the sea

Hear the accordion

See my magazine

Feel/touch my cat

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

9


red
What colour is it?

It’s green!

green
You used your
eye SIGHT to
see the colour.

blue
yellow

It’s soft!
What does it
feel like?

soft

You used your
hands to TOUCH
it to find out how
it feels!

furry
smooth

What does it
smell like?

sweet
smokey
socks

10

Eurgh!
It smells like
old SOCKS!

You used
your nose to
SMELL it!


What does it
taste like?

It’s not
making
any
noise...

But I can hear with my
ears someone singing
Happy Birthday... It’s
Messy!

I’ll lick a small bit...
YUCK! It tastes like
... CHEESE! But
it’s kind of sweet...
It’s a cake!

Story

What does it
sound like?

You used your
tongue to
TASTE it!

Happy Birthday
to me! Happy
Birthday to me!
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So now you have used all your
senses to investigate. What
do you think it can be?

Let’s go through what we discovered:
It looked

green

It felt

soft

It smelled of

socks

There was

no sound

It tasted like a

cheesy cake

What do think it is?
12

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

HA
BIR PPY
TH
ME DAY
SSY
!

HAPPY
DAY
BIRTH
!
MESSY

Yummy!
Green sock
flavour cake,
my favourite!!

13


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.

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“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.

Bedtime Story

I sit at the table watching Lita
rummaging through drawers
and cupboards - bling, blang,
blong!

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.”

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“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.
18

“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

Draw

Draw

Draw

Draw
20

for hearing

for tasting

for smelling

for seeing

for touching



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

3=
1
+
2

=
3
+
2

0=

8

3+

4=

3

6

=

4-

=

5

=
2
+

-1

8-3

4

1=

4+3=

=
1
-

5

7

+

1=


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.

s

o u
e n i
e s k
h e a

n
d
t
r

sound

ear

skin

hear

sense

nose

see

din

Animal super senses!
Colour these animals’ super senses by following the code. (See the bear example)
Hearing/Ears
Smell/Nose
Touch/Skin,
Whiskers
Sight/Eyes
Taste/Tongue


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