We had a special visitor come to our classroom last week to help us revisit our senses. Sydnie from Grade 3 prepared a special experiment for us.She made 7 different types of popcorn (plain, salty, spicy, lemony, sweet, cheesy, and one with cinnamon & sugar).
Sydnie encouraged us to be courageous and try each of the popcorns. We used our senses to make hypotheses about what kind of popcorn each one was. We then wrote down our thoughts on sticky notes.
We realized that three senses really helped us in predicting what each one was: taste, sight and smell. Chloe explained it well when she said, "I think the brownish one is brown sugar because my sense of sight shows me it is brown and my sense of taste tells me it is sweet". We decided that if she used her sense of smell she may have been able to tell that it also contained cinnamon!
We are grateful to our friend Sydnie for taking the time to come into our classroom and teach us about our senses. Following her visit there were many comments of, "I want to make some popcorn at home!"
Ask your child what his/her favorite kind of popcorn was!
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