T is for Taste

Today our sensory experience started during snack time.  The children were each given a tongue cutout.  The tongue was broken into different sections based on the areas that the tongue uses to taste different types of food.  The children were given lemon slices to put in the sour sections.  Pretzels to put in the section that tastes salty foods.  Gummy bears for the sweet section, and dark chocolate for the bitter section.  The children then tasted each food item and decided which one they thought tested the best.  We then graphed our results.  Both classes liked sweet foods the best.

The children also used their sense of smell today.  The painted pictures with Kool-Aid.  I also started assessing for Trimester 1.  I will assess your child on colors, numbers 0-15, capital and lowercase letters, and I will have them count for me.