Two tasks share this 4-page kindergarten sheet on the five senses. Students cut out 15 small pictures and glue them into a table with a column each for see, hear, smell, taste and touch, three pictures to a column. Then four safety pictures, smoke in a room, a loud fire alarm, a hot stove and spoiled milk, ask which sense warns of danger. The cutouts sit on their own page. The answer key shows the full table and the safety answers.
“Name the five senses and sort objects by the sense used to notice them.”
Page 1 and Page 2 sort 15 pictures into See, Hear, Smell, Taste and Touch.
“Say which sense can warn us of danger.”
Page 3 pairs smoke, a fire alarm, a hot stove and spoiled milk with the senses that warn us.
A table with five columns headed by an eye, ear, nose, tongue and hand icon and the words See, Hear, Smell, Taste and Touch. Three empty rows sit underneath.
Fifteen dashed cutouts, each with a word label: rainbow, drum, flower, lemon, teddy bear, stars, siren, garbage can, ice cream, ice cube, picture book, bird singing, smoke, pretzel and sandpaper.
Four boxes numbered 2 to 5, each with a picture and the five sense icons to circle.
The sorted table, then the safety answers. Smoke, a hot stove and spoiled milk each list two senses.
Cut before class
Cut the card page into strips ahead of time for students who still struggle with scissors. They can then spend the lesson thinking about the sort.
Talk before gluing
Hold up the pretzel and the ice cube and ask which sense each one calls to mind. Students will not all agree, and the argument is the useful part.
Fire safety link
Use the smoke and fire alarm boxes to start a talk about what to do when you smell smoke or hear an alarm. The key accepts two senses for some boxes, so give credit for a spoken reason.
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