Kindergarden - The Five Senses

The Five Senses: Supplemental Guide 5A | I Use My Skin to Touch 119

Introducing the Read-Aloud 15 minutes

Lesson Introduction

 Show image 1A-1: Five photos demonstrating senses

• Tell students that they have learned about most of the five senses.
  There is one more left to go!


• Tell students that you are going to point to different parts of your body
  and you want them to tell you which sense uses that body part.
  
  
  • Point to your ears. (sense of hearing)
  
  
  • Point to your tongue. (sense of taste)
  
  
  • Point to your eyes. (sense of sight)
  
  
  • Point to your nose. (sense of smell)
  
  
  
  


• Say to students: “Tell your partner how your senses protect you and
  keep you safe from harm.” [Allow forty-five seconds for students to
  talk and call on a few partner pairs to share their answers.]


• Point to the picture of the hands feeling the grass and ask students to
  tell their partner what they think today’s lesson will be about.

Making Connections

• Tell students that today they are going to learn about the sense of
  touch.


• Explain that when you talk about the sense of touch, you are talking
  about what you can touch and feel.


• Have students repeat the phrase sense of touch while pointing to their
  fingers.


• Tell them that touch is not just something they do with their hands,
  but something they do with their whole bodies.


• Ask students to share with their partner one thing they can feel
  without their hands and fingers. Invite a few partner pairs to share
  their examples.