Our day began with an assembly at which the whole class showed exemplary audience skills. We followed this with an exploration of taste. Students had the opportunity to taste something bitter, sour, and sweet and attempt to locate which part of the tongue is responsible for each. This was tricky, but we finally concluded that taste buds at the back of the tongue detect bitter tastes, those on the side detect sour taste, and the tip of the tongue is where we taste sweet things. The taste buds for salty are all over the tongue.

Everyone had an opportunity in the last couple of days to make a collection of 100. We talked about strategies for easily counting to 100, and most of us chose to make 10 groups of 10. Some of the collections were 100 dice, 100 crayons, 100 cubes, 100 pattern blocks, 100 tiles, 100 bears, 100 small animals, and 100 letters.