👀👃👄👂✋My Body + Five Senses
👀👃👄👂✋My Body + Five Senses
I hope you enjoy the My Body + Five Senses Lesson Plan, here are some highlights:
My Body + Five Senses Printable Book
Five Senses Scavenger Hunt
Five Senses Guessing Game
Body Part ABCs
Measure Your Body - Unifix Cubes
Goo You Can Chew - Marshmallow Slime
Five Senses Popcorn Investigation
Five Senses Puppets - Craft
Pick a Card - Exercise Dice Game
And more...
This lesson plan has a ton of content and could be broken up into a week, two weeks or even a month of activities.
Don’t feel like you need to do everything, pick and choose the best activities for your student(s).
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Enjoy! Tiff
My Body + Five Senses
My Body + Five Senses Printable Book - FREEBIE
Get your students excited to learn about anatomy! The body lesson plan covers my bones, my muscles, my brain, my heart and my lungs. Plus three pages of vocabulary cards!
Then narrow in on the 5 senses. Includes a page for sight, taste, hearing, touch and smell along with an overview page and scavenger hunt!
Refresh Your Senses - Guided Meditation
I highly recommend starting off your week with this awesome guided meditation video. Join Jamie from Cosmic Kids Yoga for 9 minutes of guided meditation that encourages you to explore all 5 senses.
Five Senses Mini Books
Teach about how we use each of our five senses with these fun mini books. Three versions to choose from. Students can draw their own pictures, color in the drawings or just trace the words. Great for independent work or homework.
Five Senses Guessing Game
I made up this activity on a whim and it ended up being my daughter Ava’s favorite activity of the week. Best of all it took, me 5 minutes to set up.
I got 5 paper plates and labeled each one with a sense. Then I found 5 objects for each sense. Here are the objects I used:
- Taste: lime, ketchup, pecan, tomato and blackberry
- Smell: coffee, cheese, essential oils, chocolate and an Altoid mint
- Hear: desk bell, walkie talkie, baby toy, whistle and scotch tape (this one fooled her)
- Touch: squishy toy, felt pumpkin, brush, Playdoh and pokey ball
- See: glasses, dice, flash light, binoculars and minute timer (for sight I tried to find objects you could see, but not smell).
I blindfolded my daughter and talked about how most people use their sense of sight the most, but when they can’t see they rely on their other senses more. Then I had her guess each object for every sense except sight. She got all correct except two! Then she could take off her blindfold and use sight to identify the objects on the last plate. To reinforce the concept a little further, I grabbed the senses puppets from the Art section of this lesson plan and had her match the puppet to the correct sense. Enjoy!
English Language Arts - Alphabet Focus
Body Part ABCs
Challenge each other to a game of body part ABC’s. You can adapt this game to the needs of your student by focusing on letter names, letter sounds or more complex anatomy.
Starting with A, take turns naming body parts that start with the next letter in the alphabet (A is for arm, B is for belly, C is for chin, etc. If you can’t think of any, just say skip and it’s the next person’s turn. If you need inspiration, check out this A-Z body parts list.
Write and Wipe
Create a fun and engaging literacy center that will transform your student's handwriting! These tracing cards are not only fun, they reinforce the recommended path of movement for letter formation and include matching clipart to reinforce letter sounds.
Cards include the recommended path of movement for letter formation with arrows to help students self correct.
You can also create your own on a white board by adding sticker dots to guide letter formation and providing dry erase markers.
Reading Lessons
There are only two resources I like to make sure I include on each week’s lesson plan, Prodigies Music (below) and Teach Your Child To Read in 100 Easy Lessons. This book has thousands of 5 star reviews on Amazon for a reason. It’s an effective, no-prep way to teach reading. We are 30 or so lessons in and I can already see a difference, my daughter actually sounds out the words instead of guessing.
The lessons are short (15-20min), easy to grasp and sequential. The entire lesson is scripted and color coded so it’s fool proof, just read the words in pink. It also is designed for kids that don’t know their alphabet or letter sounds yet, so you can start right away. Their claim is that after completing all 100 lessons your child will be able to read at a 2nd grade level!
Math - Numbers Focus
Measure Your Body With Snap Cubes - FREEBIE
By: The Measured Mom
I love The Measured Mom’s activities. She has a ton of free games and worksheets and they are always fun.
This was a great way to introduce the concept of measuring and it reinforced my daughter’s counting skills. Basically your child uses snap cubes or unifix cubes to measure their body and then they color in the appropriate number of squares. We used dot markers just for fun, since dot markers make everything feel like a game. Now she wants to use cubes to measure everything. How many cubes is this?
120 Number Board
One of the ways we continually work on improving counting and cardinality is with our number board. I chose this one because it has numbers up to 120 (most are only 100 and it also comes with clear tiles to show patterns). Here are just some ways we use this board:
- match the tile to the number
- use clear colored tiles to skip count by 10s, 5s and 2s
- counting practice
- understanding relationships between 1 before, 1 after, 10 before and 10 after
- make pictures out of colored tiles
- illustrate addition and subtraction problems with clear tiles
Plus the back is blank so once my daughter has achieved mastery, I plan to use that side more often.
Science - Human Anatomy
This week, I used three tools to teach our lessons on Human Anatomy. I like to use resources that teach the same concept, but utilize different “Smarts” to help nurture her different intelligences (I highly encourage you to read 8 Great Smarts by Dr. Kath Koch, Phd to learn more about the different smarts).
I found this great, inexpensive Human Body Activity Book For Kids that had all kinds of great activities that we did throughout the week. While my daughter was working on one of the activities, I read relevant information from My Amazing Body Machine and used it as a visual reference. We also used this great Magnetic Human Body Play set by Melissa and Doug as a kinesthetic tool and it was available for free play in our learning center for the week.
Goo You Can Chew - Marshmallow Slime
I typically avoid slime as a sensory activity because my 20 month old is into everything. I worry that even if she is pretty good about not eating things, she might sneak a taste.
So I was excited when I found this recipe for Edible Marshmallow Slime. It only took 5 minutes to make and called for 5 ingredients: marshmallow fluff, vanilla, sugar, cornstarch and gel food coloring. After we finished making the slime we talked about how the slime felt, smelt, looked, tasted and sounded (when you squished it).
For the full recipe, check out the book Awesome Kitchen Science Experiments for Kids.
Five Senses Popcorn Investigation - FREEBIE
By: Sunny and Bright in Primary
I don’t know about you, but I love teaching with food! I find it’s much easier to get the attention of my little snack monsters when there is food involved.
I stumbled upon this awesome popcorn activity that encourages students to use all 5 of their senses to make popcorn! Fun low-prep and engaging make this activity a winner for me. Plus I am a popcorn addict.
Art and Music
Five Sense Puppets - FREEBIE
This was a super fun and simple art craft that we used all week to talk about the 5 senses! Just print, assemble and play!
Skeleton Folding Surprise - Art For Kids Hub
We are obsessed with Art For Kids Hub! My daughter really loves it, but I think I may be more into it than she is, lol. They make fun easy to follow, FREE, step-by-step videos on how to draw pretty much anything like this fun gravestone that unfolds into a skeleton. We try to incorporate at least one Art Hub video into each lesson.
The best part is that I have seen my daughter use the techniques she learns on Art Hub in other work and her general drawing ability is improving and so is mine!
Prodigies Music
Each week, I always make sure to list Prodigies Music for our music lessons. One subject I felt very uncomfortable teaching was music, so I was thrilled to find Prodigies!
It is simply an incredible curriculum for teaching music. Ages 2-5 is the critical time to develop a life-long sense of pitch. Their curriculum is designed to develop a sense of pitch with easy to use desk bells that don’t require any tuning. They also teach piano, recorder and ukulele. Their subscription includes everything you can think of 450+ videos, worksheets, free bell mats, sheet music all color coded so it’s super easy to learn. If you don’t have an instrument they have a bunch of rhythm focused content that doesn’t require an instrument.
They have a free trial and discounts for annual memberships! Great deal! You can even check out some of their videos for free on YouTube.
Sensory Bins
My Body
Sensory Bin
Who knew human anatomy could be so much fun? My girls loved playing with these flash cards I made and matching them to the body part magnets. We even matched the flash cards to the parts on our own bodies.
Get the FREE vocabulary flash cards as part of this week’s lesson plan.
Filler: Black Beans
Recommended Supplies: Melissa and Doug Human Body Playset, wooden scoops.
Physical Education
Pick A Card - FREEBIE
This is a fun way to work on the 8 basic locomotor skills and 16 non-locomotor skills. Just pick a card, roll a dice and everyone completes that action that number of times.
This is a super fun and simple game we’ve been playing for a while with index cards, but thought I would make something a little nicer for ongoing use. Plus, new additional cards introduce students to yoga poses, body weight exercises and movements with a ball.
Five Senses Dance by Hi-5
Dance along to this fun Five Senses video that will be sure to get your heart rate up. It’s only 2 minutes and 35 seconds long so watch it once to learn the moves and then practice.
Book List
Books We Love!
- Human Body Activity Book For Kids
- The Magic School Bus Presents: The Human Body
- Inside Your Outside by Dr. Seuss. We love the Cat in the Hat Learning Library series so much we got the set which includes this book.
We also borrowed the Five Sense Series from the library. This is a great book series from the 80s that has a book explaining each of the five senses. Each book tells a story about the sense, then has a few pages at the end to explain how that body part works.
Don’t have the budget or space to get more books? The library has been pretty great for us so far, but they are sometimes out of the more popular books. One place that you can always count on to find great books is Epic Books! Try Epic Basic for FREE! You can find awesome read to me books for free, Unlimited plan includes access to 40,000+ books!
Know of any other awesome human anatomy or five senses resources? Please comment below!
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