"Honing Our Senses"

Not all students learn in the same way.  The more a person works with a number of senses the more likely they are to have a deeper understanding of their surroundings. On the bus we seem to be falling short in the area of sense perception.  First we tested the visual senses by identifying road kill.  We passed the first victim, test subject, it was identified as a raccoon.  The way the body was laying and legs protruding it seemed to be a dead give away.  Yet on closer examination, on the next time by, it proved to be a ground hog.  We talked about the important clues.  Sharp front teeth and no rings on the tail.  Test question one, wrong.  The next test subject they should have been able to do with eyes closed.  The possum, America's number one road kill, was incorrectly identified as a skunk. Pointed out the obvious, no smell and no hair on tail.  Question two, wrong.  To improve our odds we changed over to a live subject.  That did the trick, they were able to properly identify the subject as, large black dog doing his morning buisness in the neighbor's yard.  Having not fared well on the visual part of the test we moved to the auditory portion.  A young man started blowing into his hand.  Immediately it was identified by all involved as a duck.  They received only partial credit because it was a duck, but he said it was a duck letting a fart.  That in turn brought up the olfactory portion of the test when three young men pulled up their shirts over their noses and said, "Man what did you eat last night? Tacos or chilie dogs?" My burning eyes felt they were on the right track. He threw everyone a curve ball when he replied, "Fish".  The tactile or touch portion of the test we skipped.  We highly discourage the sense of touch on the bus.  There were no taste questions on the test but you would be surprised how many of the little ones could tell you what a window or seat taste like.  A disappointing score of 1.5.  I refuse to take all the blame, parents just aren't as involved with their kids as they used to be.  Your bus driver can not do it all.