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(5) Cases for Game Modes with Two Pointers What's This Taste? (Distinguishing Different Tastes, for ages 3 ~ 3 1/2) Please help the child match the food items with their corresponding tastes. Suitable Age: 3 ~ 3 1/2 years old Main Objective: To improve the identification and familiarity of the different senses of taste. Secondary Objective: To further introduce and improve the recognition of different tastes in foods. Illustrations: Chocolate, coffee, sausage, banana, salt, watermelon, lemon, kiwi. Game Guidance: 1. Different children will have slightly different experiences and gauges for their senses. Therefore, it might be useful to prepare some food ingredients for the child to try and experience the tastes for himself. After the initiatives have been taken to understand the child’s baseline for his or her senses, it is time to begin the game activities. 2.Try to find the names of different food items illustrated in the game story, and have the child attempt to describe what each food item would taste like from previous experience. It might be useful to the phrases sound like rhythmic nursery rhymes to make them more interesting. By having fun with the way you say the names of the food and how they taste, the child can have a better time recognizing and remembering. 3. Combine the two pointers together into one and place them on the 12:00 position on the disc. Start spinning the disc and once it has stopped, match the different foods based on the designated one and their tastes. For instance, “If the pointer points to the kiwi fruit when the disc stops, then the child can attempt to use the other pointer to find another fruit that also tastes sour.� Additional Activities: Place different fruits into a box or bag and have the child guess what they are by touch. Then encourage the child to smell and taste the fruits to connect the different senses.
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