Jelly Bean Investigation and Research

5 senses:

Outside of the jellybean:
It feels hard, smooth, and rolly.
It looks like a bean and seed. It is oval. It looks like a chrysalis.
It sounds like bubbles and makes me giggle. If you knock them together they bump, bump.
It smells like strawberries, limes, and lemons.
It tastes sugary. First it is hard then chewy.

Inside of the jellybean:
It has no sound. It is not alive.
It feels sticky and gorss, like boogers.
It looks like a little toy or maybe dried glue.
It tastes like strawberries, lemons, and limes. It is chewy.
The flavor is inside. The jelly part is the strawberry flavor; the outside is just a color.


Descriptions:
My jellybeans taste like limes, strawberries, and lemons. They make me giggle when they bubble. Jellybeans are too sugary. When I chew them, the gel sticks in my teeth. I still think that the jellybeans can grow into a tree.

Research: (Mom helped with this.)
We don't really know when or where jelly beans were created. Most candy experts agree that the gel came from the Middle East, my aunt Becky is in the Middle East right now. The hard shell came from France. In 1861, the jelly bean was first introduced to Americans in Boston. Today there are lots of flavors. So maybe it can't grow a tree. We'll see.