Review of the Five Senses

Objective:

·Given five items, students will be able to identify which items match best with each of the five senses.

Materials:

vRock (touch)

vHard Candy (taste)

vTriangle (sound)

vFlower (smell)

vPhotograph (sight)

v1 paper bag

v"My Five Senses" Poem

vMy Five Senses book created on a writing software program

vmagazines

Activities:

1.Recite "My Five Senses" poem.

2.Chart with students the name of each of the five senses and which body parts are used for each.

3.Pass around feelie bag with the items listed above.

4.Have students pull out an object and determine which of the five sense will best be used to identify it.

5.Have other students name another sense that can be used and visit Brainpop.com  and pick a movie about taste, smell, sight and touch. Teacher can get great background information at Gray's Anatomy.

6.On chart, have students name object that would belong in each of the five groups.

7.Have students complete a My Five Senses book finding one object for each of the five senses in a magazine. Students then Cut and paste it into the appropriately labeled page and write a sentence about it. Ex. I can see a _______ with my eyes. I can hear a ___________ with my ears.

Students can also use a software program like KidPix or The Student Writing Center to create a five senses book. They can type the text and add clipart to represent each sense.

Evaluation:

ü Students will share books with class and will be graded on it.

ü Have students name each of the five senses and body part. 

Extension:
Close your eyes and use the fingers of one hand to TOUCH the other. Notice how the back is softer than the palm and how smooth the fingernails are? Open your eyes and LOOK closely at the hand you just touched. See the knuckle wrinkles and veins on the back, the lines on the palms and the circles on the fingertips. 

Hold your nose and lick your fingers, what do you taste? Peanut butter, orange juice, soap?

Now SMELL your fingers, do you smell mustard? Pickles? 

Last, close your eyes to try to tell what noises your hear. 
In your classroom... 
Use these same senses to observe thinks in your classroom. Do you hear teachers and students from other classes? Do you smell food from the lunch room? Do you see different colors in the classroom? Do you feel the roughness or smoothness of the walls, desks and chairs? Rather than tasting the furniture, try to imagine the taste of candy chairs, chocolate pens, bubble gum erasers...