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five senses - smell and taste
By Cathy-Dee

OK, this is my final section.

usually I do these two senses together as they are somewhat connected.

For taste

We discuss our tongue and the main 4 tastes we taste. We also talk about how these tastes can be combined
to make many different flavours.
One experiment I always do....
Get some jelly-belly beans and give students about 4 to 6 jelly beans each. Have them plug their nose and chew on one jellybean and then after about a minute unplug their nose.
Up to that point they would have had a sugar taste but when they unplug their nose the full flavour just jumps out. So then we discuss how

smell is important in how food tastes.

We also have a tasting party - sometimes I just bring in the items - other times I ask parents to donate items.

Sweet - candy, fruit
Salty - pretzels, plain chips, popcorn
Sour - pickles, lemons, limes
Bitter - Unsweetened Chocolate (just a tiny piece)

Smell

Using those wonderful film canisters - I make up enough sets of about 10 smells for each group of students I have. I again label the canisters with round coloured dots and numbers and have each group look at the canisters as I call them.

So we all open number one at the same time and take a sniff. Then I'll call on a group to see if they can tell me what they think it is. I try to have enough canisters so that I can call on each group twice.

We also make up a Venn diagram of smells most people like, smells most people dislike and smells that are sometimes liked and sometimes not liked.

Other activities you can also do....

Get large pieces of paper and label them. Things we like to look at. Things we like to touch. Thinks we like to Hear. etc.,

Then have students cut out or draw pictures to put on the paper and hang them as posters for all to enjoy.

Name Sense Poem

My name looks like _____________
Ny name feels like _____________
My name sounds like ____________
My name smells like ____________
My name tastes like ____________

To do this poem have the students make their name in some fancy manner. Then write the poem based on that.

So if you take a name like Shirley and write it with wavy lines.

My name looks like waves on the ocean.
My name feels like smooth stones on the beach.
My name sounds like whispers at night.
My name smells like _______
and so on.

And here are a few links I've also used to get ideas from.

http://www.sedl.org/scimath/pasopartners/senses/welcome.html
http://www.preschoolrainbow.org/5senses.htm
http://members.shaw.ca/henriksent/sound.htm
http://members.shaw.ca/henriksent/senses.htm