Wednesday 27 May 2015

Swedish sweet-tasting!

The day had come!

One week after our Mystery Google Hangout with Pernilla's kids in Sweden...we set aside half an hour to 'taste Swedish candy'!

Had the kids sit in a circle...the idea being we would casually 'record' some responses and have the kids 'use some descriptive language' to explain their thoughts (many kids have this as a writing goal - to use more descriptive words). So what a great opportunity to practice that within an authentic experience!

Well... the first 'taster' went out...I attempted to tell the kids what it was called... we smelled...lots of kids describing as 'caramel, coffee, liquorice smelling ...

And then we tasted!

The next thing I know... all the kids are up out of their seats and rushing to the rubbish bin! Well that was the end of the 'organisation'! Had to laugh though as this initial  reaction was 'priceless'!!

I decided to 'taste' myself with the thought that these kids are all just 'being dramatic' for the camera....WELL... i found myself having to 'get rid of mine' too....it was HORRID! (Sorry Pernilla)



So onto the 'next taster'...

The little marshmellowy ones were a hit! "fruity" "like eskimos"

Then we passed out the fizzy bottles... smelt "bubblegummy" "sour"


The raspberry jube was a hit too..."soft, chewy, sweet" ... MY FAVOURITE!


We so hope you have just as much fun tasting our 'KIWI SELECTION' Pernilla and class! Make sure you do a video too...will be fantastic to 'see / hear' reactions!

ON BEHALF OF THE KIDS>>>>thank you for sending us some of your Swedish candy...the experience was fantastic and I hope we can connect with more classes around the world and do the same thing!


26 comments:

  1. I liked the FIZZPOPS they are the BEST they are better than our snikers

    umm umm yummy
    :)

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  2. I liked the FIZZPOPS they are the BEST they are better than our snikers

    umm umm yummy
    :)

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  3. most of the groups could stay up for long...
    but not my group.

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  4. Thanks for putting this up! Wonderful to read! We're happy you liked (most of) the candy we sent! And, deep in your heart, we all know that you LOVE those salties too!!! ;)
    All the best from Sweden - Pernilla and students

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  5. Hi mrs T, It was an interesting and fun activity that we did. Im glad we saved the best for last and got that yuck salty taste out of our mouth(sorry Pernilla and kids). The salty sensation crept onto the walls of my mouth making my innocent tastebuds hide. But Pernilla was right once you get past all the saltiniess it didnt taste quite so bad. The sencond lollie cleaned my mouth with its sweetness getting all the not so caramel tasting lollie out. The third lollie was just making my tastebuds go to heaven. The fourth lollie was well lets say it was chocolate and i just cant resiste chocolate! Thank you guys for sending us your lollies, I hope we can get to see a video of you and your class trying our lollies. Thanks again Chloe!

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    1. Chloe... you have made great use of this tasting session to demonstrate your skill with words! "The salty sensation crept onto the walls of my mouth making my innocent tastebuds hide" WOW WOW WOW... alliteration, personification, metaphor all in the one sentence!!! Nothing better than having your 'tastebuds in heaven'...brilliant!
      When you need an example of evidence for your use of language features in your writing...here it is BOOM!

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  6. Hi I’m Bree-Ann, I’m from Tamatea Intermediate.

    I liked the chocolate it was almost as good as the chocolate here. My least favourite one was the first two. they tasted like coffee. The interesting part was how everybody reacted to the first two.

    I would really like to try some other Swedish candy. It would be interesting seeing your reaction to the we sent you

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    1. I agree...the chocolate ones were pretty nice! Pernilla and her kids are sending the video soon Bree Ann..i am looking forward to that also.

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  7. Thank you Mrs Pernilla for the yummy candy sorry most of us did not like the salty ones

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  8. Candy One Light Brown.
    Smell.Like caramel and salty
    Look. hard and see alot of salt
    Taste One.Salty
    Taste Two.Sweet
    Taste Three. YUM
    Candy Two Dark Brown.
    Smell.Like coffee
    Look.hard and see a lot of salt
    Taste One.Salty
    Taste Two.Sweet
    Taste Three.YUM
    Candy Three Fizzy Pops
    Smell.Sweet
    Look.Small worm
    Taste One.delicious
    Taste Two. Sweet
    Taste Three. My FAVOURITE
    Candy Three Hallon/ Sweden name
    Smell.Nice
    look.Watermelon
    taste One.Sweet
    taste Two.Chuwy
    taste three.My Second FAVOURITE.

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    1. Mikayla I LOVE how you have been creative with your reply...good for you...lots of description:)

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  9. HI Ms T its Jasmine. It was interesting tasting what people from Sweden like. The first lolly looked well interesting and it tasted interesting too! The saltiness crept up on my tastebuds and gave them a surprise! The saltiness soon disappeared and I was left with a normal tasting lolly. The black salty one was like Ms T said HORRID! Sorry Pernilla and the students there! The colourful ones were like minty marshmallows and the gele hallon ones were just luscious! Thank you for sending us those yummy lollies most of them were delicious! I hope you enjoy ours!

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    1. The saltiness actually didn't 'creep up on me' Jasmine....IT HIT ME STRAIGHT AWAY...and I ran to the bin!!! (Sorry Pernilla). Some great description here too 'minty marshmallows' and 'luscious' is such a 'lolly' word!!!

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  10. Kia or a I'm Lily from the One6 at Tamatea Napier New Zealand

    I agree with you Mrs T they were DISGUSTING I'm not sure how they eat them .

    I think we all like sugar more then salt
    What do you reckon about that ?

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    1. You know what I reckon Lily.... I reckon I agree... we are definitely liking the 'sugar' taste over the 'salt' taste!

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  11. Hi guys Grace here from Tamatea Intermediate. I really enjoyed tasting the swedish candies. The first two were horribily disgusting, The golden first one smelt like caramel with a little smell of coffee,`The second one was a black liquorice salty one. It was the time to taste first we tasted the caramel,coffee one, It taste like salt water. All I did was run to the bin and spit it out.

    The next one was the black liquorice one. It went into my mouth and out into the bin. It taste like a salty black liquorice.

    Then Ms T pulled out bilar they were the bomb.com. I loved they tasted like raspberry I loved them.

    Sadly the bus bell went and I didn't get to try the last two, How did they taste, did you like them????

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    1. I agree Grace.... the Billar were really yum... I loved the 'chewy, squishy sensation'!!! Sorry you didn't get to taste the others... we should have 'saved' some....oh well next time!

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  12. Hi my name is Mya and i am a year seven at tamatea int and we skyped your class last week then you sent use some lollies and we tried them and the first one we tried were called bilar! they were not very nice lollies put some kids liked them. Then we tried the next one it was also called bilar! now that one was nice they smelt like milk but they did not taste like milk they tasted like marshmallows. Then we had two to chose from i chose the fizzypops! they were the bast then the ones i already had i chose that one out of gele hallon! i thought it was a weird name so I choose fizzypops! the last one was so nice that i wanted more it was called wall a don't now what it is called but it tasted like chocolate it was very nice i really liked it thank you for sending use your lollies and we hope you like awers.

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    1. Mya I also enjoyed the 'fizzypops'...slightly sour but probably more sweet! I also liked the colour of them...that nice turquoise colour with the pink!

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  13. Hi my name is Emily i am a year seven and i go Tamatea intermediat. We skyped your class last week unfortunatly i couldent go but i heard some awesome feedback about the skype. The lollies that you send over tasted interesting but i thought that the fizzy pop and Eldorado gele Hallon were delicious but i thought that the bilar lollies were a bit salty. Bilar sveringes mest köpta bil were also very nice but my favorite lollies was the chocolate i dont know what the name was though.

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    1. Emily you have done well to include the correct names of the Swedish lollies... good idea to look at the bags ans discuss using the real names. I agree...the fizzy pops and Eldorado gele Hallon were my favourite too.

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  14. It would have been exiting to taste what people in other countries have like Jube. This was a wonderful post to read.

    Keep up the good work
    Hana

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    1. Hi Hana... I am Ms T...and my class had SUCH a great time connecting with this Swedish class....and of course tasting their candy. I recommend this activity to your teacher!
      Thank you for visiting our blog...I hope some of our students go to yours and read / reply to some of your posts too.

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  15. That looks like fun! For the guy in the first video-were they really that bad?

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  16. They arnt that bad only the ones that we tried first they were very salty. Hi im Riley from Riley's Amasing blog

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  17. Hello I'm Riley from T.I.S. Those sweden lollies were salty and the. Coloured ones tasted like marshmallows and it is the pink and green ones. The chocolate is better than our crunchy bars. I wish I lived in sweden and tasted all of your guys sweets.
    Bye.

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