The 5 tastes activity

Date: 11^th August 2014

Day: Monday

Time: 3:00-4:00pm      

Class: Pomegranate      

Theme: Yummy Food

Teacher: Teacher Yeong

The 5 tastes activity

I told the children last week that we shall explore the 5 tastes this week. The children asked why we needed to learn about it. Therefore, I explained that the food that we eat has taste especially fruits and vegetables.

So, I prepared 5 colour cups with 5 different tastes in it. As all of them looked like plain water, the children couldn’t guess what kind of taste were they. I randomly put the colour of the cup on the board and the children said they would like to follow the sequence of it to do the tasting. Most of the children were brave enough to take at least a sip while some were quite timid not even wanted to try some of it. 

Yee Shuen said:"Oh, what is this?"

Teng Hong:"It's sweet. I like it."

Finally, all the children tasted all the water in those colour cups. I also have listed down the taste on the board. I wish to carry out some activity with the children. Therefore, we shall be having “Taste Day”. Hopefully the children could discuss this activity with their parents and bring along any food that suits the theme of the day.

The schedules are as followed:

Day	Date	Theme of the Day
Wednesday	13-8-2014	Sour Day
Thursday	14-8-2014	Sweet Day
Friday	15-8-2014	Spicy Day
Tuesday	19-8-2014	Bitter Day
Wednesday	20-8-2014	Salty Day

I wish the activity will be a success. Parents could leave comments if you have doubts about this coming activity.