This senses touch worksheet has first grade students circle the objects that feel soft, then write texture words to finish three sentences. An answer key is included, so checking the work takes seconds.
While listening to the Senses Song (MP3), students learn the five senses and examples of how you use each sense daily.
This Adjective Five Senses Worksheet helps 1st Grade students circle and match describing words for what they see, hear, smell, taste, and touch. Includes an answer key for easy, fun grammar practice.
This senses smell worksheet asks 1st graders to circle the things that carry a strong smell, then finish three sentences from a word box. Answer key included for teachers and homeschool parents.
The Using Your Five Senses Worksheet helps 1st grade students find the main topic of a five senses passage and match each sense to its body part. Answer key included to build reading confidence.
While watching the Senses Song (Animated Music Video), students learn about the five senses. The senses song teaches Touch, Taste, Smell, Sight, and Sound.
Five senses flash cards for Preschool through 1st Grade: 15 fold-over picture cards pair each sense with its body part, plus a practice page and answer key included to make learning the senses hands-on.
Using this Five Senses Mini Pack, students learn about Five Senses through ten fun worksheets and two activities.
This five senses sense quest activity is a board game where children match 15 picture cards to a sense. Made for Kindergarten and 1st grade, with a practice page and answer key included.
Using Five Senses Board Game Activity, studentssail around the board game to collect picture cards representing each of the five senses.
See, hear, smell, taste and touch
First graders learn that our five senses help us explore the world: eyes → see · ears → hear · nose → smell · tongue → taste · skin → touch. They use their senses like scientists to observe and describe objects, choosing strong describing words like bumpy, sour, loud or sweet. They also learn that senses keep us safe, like smelling smoke or hearing a car horn. The click moment comes when a child describes an apple using all five senses and realizes they have just made a scientific observation!
This topic is pure hands-on fun. These moves turn every sense into a mini investigation.
Start each day of the unit with a senses song and point to each body part as it is named. By the end of the week, kids can name every sense and the body part that goes with it.
Why it works: a catchy, repeating tune gives the brain a hook to hang words on, so sung text is remembered better (Wallace, 1994).
Try it withSenses Song (Animated Music Video)SongsOpen it →Fill a feely box with cotton balls, sandpaper, a pinecone and a smooth stone. Kids reach in and describe what they feel with one strong word. Then they record their words on a chart.
Why it works: kids understand an idea best when they touch it, then draw it, then write it, the order the U.S. Department of Education recommends for elementary math.
Try it withSenses Touch WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Hold up a lemon and model a five senses observation: "I see yellow, I smell sour, I feel bumpy." Then kids observe their own object and write one sentence for each sense.
Why it works: showing first, practicing together, then letting kids try alone is the "gradual release" model teachers have relied on for decades (Pearson and Gallagher, 1983).
Try it withUsing Your Five Senses WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Sensory games that keep little scientists busy and giggling.
ActivitiesKids go on a quest around the room, finding something to see, hear, smell and touch at each stop.
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ActivitiesRoll, move and answer a senses question at each space. First to the finish wins!
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WorksheetsKids smell cinnamon, lemon and vanilla in covered cups and guess each one.
Open Senses Smell Worksheet →Teacher favorites right now: Senses Touch Worksheet, Senses Song (MP3) and Adjective Five Senses Worksheet.
Sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. We use our eyes, ears, nose, tongue and skin to learn about the world.
Use hands-on stations for each sense, like a feely box, a sound guessing game and a smell test. Have kids describe what they notice with strong adjectives.
Our senses help us learn, make observations and stay safe. Smelling smoke or hearing an alarm can warn us of danger.
Try a blindfold taste test, a sound walk outdoors or a mystery bag of objects to touch. Ask your child to describe each one.
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