What does it taste like?

Date: 30^th May 2014

Day: Friday

Time: 4:00-5:00pm

Class: Starfruit

Theme: Yummy, Yummy Food

Teacher: Teacher Yeong

What does it taste like?

In order for the children to learn about the 5 tastes of food – sweet, salty, sour, bitter and hot/spicy, I prepared an activity today for the children to do food tasting.

Basically, I prepared 5 different colour cups for easy reference. Then in each cup, I prepare the 5 tastes from different materials.

Sweet – Water + sugar

Salty – Water + salt

Sour – Water + Rice Vinegar

Bitter – Water + small bitter gourd (I used hot water to soak the bitter gourd beforehand)

Hot/Spicy – Water + 2 red eye chilies (I used hot water to soak the red eye chili beforehand)

The children made the decision which colour cup to start off with. Each of them was given a spoon for tasting. Most of the children were quite adventurous and they wanted to know what taste they got while some of them were quite reluctant to try even one sip.

The children would tell me the taste after they had tasted it. This table shows the result of the tasting:-

Colour of cup	Taste
pink	Sweet
blue	Salty
yellow	Hot/spicy
orange	Bitter
green	sour

In order to carry out some extended activities about this, we shall have a more details discussion on next Monday.