Kindergarden - The Five Senses

104 The Five Senses: Supplemental Guide 4B | I Use My Tongue to Taste

 End-of-Lesson Check-In

I Use My Tongue to Taste

Choose four students to focus on and record their scores on the Tens

Recording Chart. For this kind of informal observation, you should

give a score of zero, five, or ten based on your evaluation of students’

understanding and language use.

0 Emergent understanding and language use

5 Developing understanding and language use

10 Proficient understanding and language use

• Remind students that they have learned new words and information
  about their tongue and the sense of taste.


• Ask them to talk to their partner about what they have learned today
  using as many new words and new information as they can.


• Students may also use this time to ask their partner about unknown
  words in the read-aloud.


• Have students use the Response Cards for The Five Senses to
  answer questions you have made up about the five senses, e.g.,
  Which sense do I taste with? What part of my body do I taste with?
  Items to listen for:


• The word taste


• The word different


• The word bumps


• The words flavorful/flavorless


• The term sense of taste


• Any information about taste buds, different tastes, and the sense of
  taste