Apple Tasting

Today, we tasted four different varieties of apples. The children compared all of the flavors and picked their favorite. Here is how they voted. We then spent some time studying the graph to see what they noticed. Which one got the most votes? Which ones got the least number of votes? Were any equal? We represented each number with the numeral, a common dot pattern, and tally marks. The children noticed that three of the columns were equal. I showed them what that looked like symbolically. We then tied the apple tasting activity to our study of the five senses. The children used all five of their senses when interacting with the apples. They used their sense of sight to differentiate the color of the apples. They used their sense of taste to compare the flavors. They used their sense of hearing to listen to the apple crunch as they bit into it. They used their sense of smell when they noticed the sweet aroma the apples had. They used their sense of touch when they held the apple and noticed it was cold and smooth. There was so much learning and the kids thought they just got to taste apples!