Using our sense of taste

We continued our exploration of the five senses today, by using our sense of taste! We tasted four different foods: lemons, unsweetened chocolate, pretzels, and honey. We discovered that lemons taste sour, unsweetened chocolate tastes bitter, pretzels taste salty, and honey tastes sweet. The children recorded whether they liked or did not like the different tastes. You might want to try and find some foods at home that taste sweet, salty, bitter, or sour! 

Using our Five Senses like Scientists

In Kindergarten Enrichment, we have been thinking about what a scientist does. We have been learning that scientists use their five senses to observe the world around them. We read the story, My Five Senses, by Aliki and discovered that we each have five senses! We use our eyes to see, our nose to smell, tongues to taste, ears to listen, and our hands to feel.







This week we explored how we use our sense of hearing. We played a game where we guessed what was inside the plastic egg by listening. First, we looked a 6 plastic bags that were filled with different objects: beans, acorns, sprinkles, beads, pennies, and cotton. Each egg was filled with one of these materials.

We shook and listened to each egg. We then recorded our guesses. After we drew or wrote our guesses down we opened and revealed what was inside each egg.

You might want to practice using your sense of hearing at home with your child by sitting outside in nature very quietly and listening for sounds. See if you can hear a bird, a cricket, or the wind blowing the leaves on the trees!