Hsiao-Yu’s Pre-K class explored all the 5 senses. She put several objects on a table and covered them in a blanket. Students had to use their sense of touch to feel with their hands and guess what was underneath. She made 4 other stations where students put different senses to the test, too!

Chiao-Wen’s Pre-Kindergarten class created some fun and unconventional art. She used the different shapes and textures of foods to paint with, like zucchini slices for stamps or carrots for lines. Kids loved it.

Melanie’s Pre-K class compared the tastes, textures and flavors between Red, Yellow and Green apples. After the tasting, the students voted on which kind of apple they liked best. The Red was the clear winner!

Shu Chun worked her current theme “My House” into her Taste Week activity. She had her students create a menu, prepare different juices, and then invite one another to their “house” so they could serve them from their menu!

Jacoba’s kindergarten class got into some seedy business! These students rolled up sleeves and cleaned out the inside of a pumpkin. They then collected the seeds and put them in a bag with their pumpkin cut out, in addition to baking some of the seeds to eat. What a seasonal activity!

Delphine blindfolded her kindergarten class and gave them different kinds of food. She asked students to describe the smell and feel the texture of it, discussing the many different traits of food. A favorite among the students was the dark chocolate! 

Portia’s 1^st grade class learned about different apple types, flavors…and tasted them with some fun spices! They then created colorful graphs on which combinations they tried and what they liked.

Ya-Ching’s 3^rd grade students kept their noses busy! They had to use their sense of smell to guess the food/herb/spice inside over 20 different covered cups! After making their best guess, they then wrote about an association they had with that smell, and how it made them feel.  

Like Ya-Ching’s class, Valérie’s 3^rd grade class exercised their olfactory tools! She prepared over 25 cups containing foods or spices that had different scents. The cups were covered with tin foil and only a few holes so the students could smell and guess what was inside. After making their guess, the students were to add how that particular scent made them feel. It was a great activity and wonderful to see the students challenge each other on what they thought was inside, and make personal associations with the smells!

Stephanie’s 4^th grade class had a Tea Party. The students brought in dried foods from home (blueberries, herbs, lavender, etc.) and mixed it with one of three kinds of tea that Stephanie prepared. Students enjoyed combining and mixing flavors to make their own teas! 

In Liz’s 4^th grade class, she used bar graphs to measure the popularity of different fruits. Students were all asked to try a piece of 3 different fruits.  She then asked for a show of hands to see which was the most popular fruit. All students recorded the data and a few went to the front of the class to create the bar graph that represented their palates. Apparently, mango was the big hit in that class!

Sylvie’s 4^th grade made food art! They got creative with even the fruit peels to combine the different shapes, sizes and colors to make fun images. After which, you better believe they enjoyed eating their tasty creations. 

Cindy’s 5^th grade students were all blindfolded and given 12 food items to guess/ remember by using senses other than visual. After the blindfolded was done, she gave them a worksheet to record whatever they remembered and thought they were by categorizing the food items into fruits, vegetable or spices. And they had to say what sense they used to identify the food item and how that tasted like or how it felt like…imagine the faces when they recalled the red pepper!