While listening to the Senses Song (MP3), students learn the five senses and examples of how you use each sense daily.
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.
Look, listen, sniff, touch and taste!
Preschoolers learn that their bodies have five amazing tools for exploring the world: sight, hearing, smell, touch and taste. They match each sense to its body part (eyes, ears, nose, hands or skin, and tongue) and start using describing words like soft, loud, sweet and bumpy. Then they become little scientists, using their senses to observe and talk about what they notice. The big moment is when a child closes their eyes, holds a mystery object and says "It feels rough and it smells like an orange!"
This is the most hands-on unit of the preschool year. Here is how we keep it fun and memorable.
Play a senses song and have kids point to their eyes, ears, nose, hands and tongue as each sense comes up. After a few days, pause the song and let them shout the next one. Singing and pointing ties each sense to its body part.
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 →Show a picture card, like a bell, a flower or a lemon, and ask "Which sense would you use?" Some pictures have more than one answer, which leads to great conversations. A lemon? You can see it, smell it and taste it!
Why it works: children learn more from words and pictures together than from words alone (Mayer, 2009).
Try it withFive Senses Flash CardsFlash CardsOpen it →Put a pinecone, a cotton ball or a block in a bag and let kids feel without looking. Ask for one describing word before they guess. It builds vocabulary and shows that touch alone can tell us a lot.
Why it works: the U.S. Department of Education's guide for teaching elementary math recommends moving from hands-on objects to drawings to numbers.
Try it withSenses Song (MP3)SongsOpen it →Every day is a senses day in preschool. These ideas fit right into centers and circle time.
WorkbooksLittle pages to color, trace and match each sense to what it helps us notice. Perfect for a week-long unit.
Open Five Senses Mini Pack →SongsPlay the senses song on the way to school or during clean-up so kids hear it again and again.
Open Senses Song (MP3) →Teacher favorites right now: Senses Song (MP3), Senses Song (Animated Music Video) and Five Senses Flash Cards.
Sight, hearing, smell, touch and taste. We see with our eyes, hear with our ears, smell with our nose, touch with our skin and hands, and taste with our tongue.
The senses are how young children learn about everything. Talking about them builds vocabulary, observation skills and early science thinking, and it is easy to do with everyday things.
Do a taste test with sweet, sour and salty foods, smell spices from the kitchen, or play "I spy" for sight. Ask your child to describe what they notice with a new word each time.
Many teachers spend one to two weeks, often one day per sense, then a final day using all five together. Short daily activities work better than one long lesson for this age.
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