Sound Smoothies

Introduction

• Call students together.
• Ask if students know how to make a smoothie. If anyone has made one before, have the student tell the group what they remember about that experience.
• Pass out a slice of banana for each student to taste. Ask students to think about the taste of the banana as they eat it and try to describe it to a partner. (If students need some help describing what they are testing, suggest words like "sweet," "yummy," "sour," etc.)
• Next, pass out a strawberry for each student to taste. Again, have students come up with words to describe the taste of the strawberry with a partner.
• Show students the blender or mixing bowl. Place some strawberries and bananas in it (add some ice if using a blender). Blend the items together.
• Give students a taste of the blended smoothie. Ask students to describe what they taste. Can they identify the individual flavors?
• Explain to students that they have just tasted something that is blended. The smoothie still has each of the individual fruits’ tastes, but the tastes have now combined together to make something tasty. This same thing can happen with letters when they are forming words and stories!