Kindergarden - The Five Senses

80 The Five Senses: Supplemental Guide 3B | I Use My Nose to Smell

Use a Word to World activity for follow-up. Directions: I will describe

something or someone, and you will identify that thing or person.

1. Identify something you use to write with.


2. Identify the person sitting next to you.


3. Identify the part of your body that odor molecules go into.


4. Identify the part of your body that you use to see.


5. Identify your favorite place in the classroom.

 End-of-Lesson Check-In

I Use My Nose to Smell

Choose four students to focus on and record their scores on the Tens

Recording Chart. For this kind of informal observation, you should

give a score of zero, five, or ten based on your evaluation of students’

understanding and language use.

0 Emergent understanding and language use

5 Developing understanding and language use

10 Proficient understanding and language use

• Remind students that they have learned new words and information
  about their nose and the sense of smell.


• Ask them to talk to their partner about what they have learned today
  using as many new words and new information as they can.


• Students may also use this time to ask their partner about unknown
  words in the read-aloud.


• Have students use the Response Cards for The Five Senses to answer
  questions you have made up about the five senses. For example,
  “What do I use my nose for? Where do odor molecules come in from?”
  Items to listen for:


• The word smell


• The word odor


• The word block


• The word identify


• The term sense of smell


• Any information related to the sense of smell