What does the sea water taste like?

Date: 20^th February 2014

Day: Thursday

Time: 3:00-4:00pm

Class: Pomegranate

Theme: Underwater World

Teacher: Teacher Yeong

What does the sea water taste like?

Teacher: Where does the shark lives? Or the whale lives?

Children: Water.

Teacher: Water? In the river?

Children: No, not river. River is very small.

Teacher: Are you sure the river is very small? Alright, now, where does the shark live?

Children: Sea.

Children: Sea got beach.

Teacher: Yes, there’s beach there. Do you know the taste of the sea water?

The children shook their head.

I had prepared some water in two different containers which one is just plain water while the other one added with salt. I asked the children to observe and see if there’s any difference in it. They said no difference.

Children were taking turns to take a cup of water

I started to give each child some small amount of the plain water to taste.

Teacher: What’s the taste of it?

Children: Sweet….bitter (they said that in Mandarin).. (bitter? Hmm, not sure if it’s true?!)

Aiden: Taste good!

Then, I gave them another small amount of the salt water.

Teacher: What’s the taste of it.

Children: (stick out their tongue)..Yucks!!! Salty(said that in Mandarin)……not good.

Teacher: Would you like to have some more?

Children: No, no, no!

Teacher: Which water makes you feel like to drink more of the plain water?

Children: The 2^nd one. (However, some were confused with my question and said the other way round.) 

"Oh gosh!" said the children.

Kwan Ming: "Yucks!"

Anyhow, now the children know that the sea creatures live in the salt water.