Kindergarden - The Five Senses

The Five Senses: Supplemental Guide 4C | I Use My Tongue to Taste 109

With your partner, think of ten different tastes, like the taste of

bananas, the taste of French fries, or the taste of lemonade.

[Write 10 on the board. Allow one minute for students to talk. Call on several

partner pairs to share a few of the tastes they came up with.]

 Show image 5A-3: Four tastes

In certain spots on your tongue, you have special taste buds to

identify four different types of tastes.

[Point to the different types of food and have students say the taste: sweet,

salty, bitter, sour.]

Tell me about different kinds of food that have sweet, salty, bitter, and

sour tastes.

[Call on two students to share about each taste.]

 Show image 5A-4: Child with sour face eating lemon

Show me the face you make when you taste something sour. If it’s

something really sour, like a raw lemon, most people pucker up—they

suck in their lips like fish, squint their eyes, and wrinkle their noses.

[Have students make a face as if they have tasted something sour.]

 Show image 5A-6: Boy eating fried chicken

Your sense of taste helps you enjoy your food.

Ask your partner, “What other sense helps me to enjoy my food?”

[Allow fifteen seconds for students to talk. Call on a volunteer partner pair to

share their answer.]

Your sense of taste and your sense of smell work together to help

you figure out what your food tastes like.

[Point to your nose and tongue.]

 Show image 5A-7: Boy pinching nose taking medicine

Ask your partner, “What can I do if I have to taste something I do not

like?”

[Allow fifteen seconds for students to talk.]