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Shapes and Colors

DAY 5: ACTIVITY

TASTE BOX

Goals: Familiarize them with different tastes, ability to differentiate and identify the different tastes. To make them aware of gustatory discrimination

Vocabulary - Taste, taste buds, qustatory sensation, bitter, sweet, sour, salty, spicy

Material required: Different products with variety of tastes like mustard seed powder, asafoetida, amchur powder, turmeric powder, dry neem powder, salt, sugar, Tamarind powder, all kept in non - transparent boxes.

Presentation: Give them the different powders to taste and ask them to name the taste. Ask them to match the same tastes when the same items are given.

Assessment:

  • Which organ is used for tasting?
  • · Which is your favorite taste?
  • Which fruit tastes sour?
  • · Do you like bitter taste?
  • Can we eat something that is too spicy?
  • Can we eat something that is too salty?
  • · What is the taste of ice cream?
  • · Can we enjoy a food which is not having any taste?
  • · What is the taste of the water?

Variation: Introduce new taste with variety of objects. Reinforce the tastes whenever they eat. Ask them to identify the opposite tastes like sweet, bitter.

Evaluation: First do the activities with eves open and then with eyes closed, note down how many taste each one identified, matched and named. What all open ended questions they answered. Keep the record to note down the progress when the activity is repeated again. Ask them about the different taste of their lunch and snacks.

Conclusion: Analyze how many different tastes they can identify, match, and name

WHISPERING FRIEND'S NAME

Goals: To develop their auditory skills, social skills, sustaining attention.

Introduction and Presentation: Children are asked to sit in a circle and one child can tell any of their friends name in the ears of the other child sitting next to her/ him. They should pass the information only by whispering in their friends ears not louder. At the end the last person will tell the secret name louder.

Skills developed: Develops their auditory skills, social skills and sustaining attention.