Avilene ate whole wheat English muffin and two servings of mandarin oranges for breakfast. For lunch she ate ground beef, two servings of whole wheat elbow noodles, ate peas, and applesauce. I'm not exactly sure what brought about the conversation about our "heart," but Atley informed everyone "I know when your heart breaks." Oh really, when is that? "When you're NOT in love." Then after a few moments she added; "When you die." :)
Today was Science with Lauralea and the kids were super excited as always. The theme was "our tongue" and "taste buds." Lots of tasting today! As you can see in the first picture we had a partially completed (ha) diagram of the tongue and we briefly told the kids where their taste buds are located. So we started by having them plug their nose and experimented with them deciding if they could taste better with their nose plugged or unplugged. Then we moved on to lots of tasting. "Is it sweet, salty, sour, or bitter?" And they had to guess what they had just tried. Here are some/most of the ones we tried: mandarin orange juice, coffee, lemon juice, soy sauce, salt water, sugar water, pickle juice, grapefruit juice. The general consensus: Mandarin orange juice was the favorite and Coffee the least favorite. (It was "instant coffee" mixed too strong and it was nasty. Ha.) Except Svea "loved the lemon juice." Then in the second picture we moved on to the "Tea experiment." They smelled each of the teas and could choose to taste one or mix some together. They had their own little cups and you can see the syringes in the cups of tea. Thank you again Lauralea.
As soon as Science with Lauralea was over the three big girls got out some paper and started drawing "the taste testing" process. It was fun to watch them draw and express their perspective in this manner.
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