Lesson Plan 1

Name: Vivian Phan
Grade: Pre-K
Central Focus/Overarching Theme: The Five Senses
Title of Lesson: What are our five senses? How can we use our five senses?
Objectives:
 Students will be asked to explain what the five senses are.

 Student will discuss their use of their five senses at school, at home, and in their
neighborhoods.
 Students will participate in large group activities.
 Students will share their ideas and demonstrate behaviors when sharing ideas (raising
their hand to speak)
 Students will demonstrate listening skills when listening to the read aloud and listening
to their classmates share their ideas.
 Students will be answering questions that are asked before, during, and after the read
aloud.
 Students will be engaging in whole-class conversations
Connection to Standards:
PK.PDH.1. Uses senses to assist and guide learning.

PK.AC.1. Demonstrates motivation to communicate
PK.AC.2. Demonstrates they are building background knowledge
PK.AC.3 Demonstrates understanding of what is observed
PK.AC.4. Demonstrates a growing receptive vocabulary
PK.ELAL.5. [PKR.1.] Participates in discussions about a text (e.g., during whole or small
group interactive read aloud discussions, during peer sharing, within play scenarios)
Note: The word, “text” encompasses far more than printed material. Text may also refer to
speech, graphics, visual art, digital representations, video, and other visual and audio
depictions of ideas, concepts, and experiences.
PK.ELAL.6. [PKR.2] Retells stories or share information from a text
PK.ELAL.7 [PKR.3] Develops and answers questions about characters, major events, and
pieces of information in a text
PK.ELAL.9 [PKR.5] Interacts with a variety of genres (e.g., storybooks, poems, songs)
PK.ELAL.19. [PKSL.1] Participates in collaborative conversations with diverse peers and
adults in small and large groups and during play
Materials Required:
 Book - My Five Senses by Aliki

 Objects for children to look at, touch, smell, etc. (toys of various colors, different
textured toys)
Classroom Arrangement:
The first lesson will be a whole group activity. Children will be sitting in the meeting area
while listening to the read aloud. Before, during, and after reading, children will be asked
questions and will have a chance to share their ideas with the rest of their classmates.
Rationale:
This lesson is important because this will serve as an introduction to the five senses. Children
will gain a general understanding about what the five senses are (touch, taste, sight, smell, and
hearing), which will help with the transition when doing sensory activities within this
theme/central focus. They will learn new vocabulary words related to the theme and will have
a chance to engage with these new words through discussions. Children will also gain
important listening and speaking skills, as they listen to the story and share their thoughts. This
lesson provides children with the opportunity to develop important social skills.
Lesson/Procedure:
1. Students will be asked to have a seat at the meeting area, in a circle. Students will be
looking at the teacher.
2. The teacher will then introduce the topic to students and tell students that they will be
learning about the five senses. The teacher will also introduce the read aloud book to students,
which is My Five Senses by Aliki. The teacher will ask students what they know about the five
senses, before reading the book.
3. While reading the book, the teacher will ask students comprehension questions and
questions related to the five senses. These questions may include:
 What are some things you see with your eyes?
 How many (insert objects) do you see in our classroom?
 Listen carefully, what do you hear outside? (Wind blowing, birds chirping, cars
honking, etc.)
 Which of the five senses are you using when you use your nose? Which of the senses
are you using when you use your tongue? What about your hand?
 How does our meeting area rug feel? How does the floor feel?
4. After reading the book, students will be asked comprehension questions and will also be
asked questions that relate the five senses to their own lives. These questions may include:
 What are the five senses?
 When you walk to school or walk back home, what are some things you see in the
neighborhood?
 When you’re at home, what are some things that you see (family members, rooms,
etc.)? What does your family’s cooking taste like?
 Have you ever tasted something that was really delicious when a grown up cooked?
 What’s your favorite food, and how does it taste?
 How do you use your five senses at home?
5. After children have answered these questions, the teacher will present a basket full of
different objects to engage students in using their five senses. These objects will be toys of
various colors, toys with different textures (rough, furry, spiky), a plastic jar of coffee beans,
etc. Students will be passing these items around to their classmates and will be asked what
they notice about these objects. Some questions may include:
 What different colors do you see on the toys?
 How do the different toys feel?
 How does the jar of coffee beans smell?
 Have you ever seen, touched, or smelled anything similar? Does this remind you of a
toy or blanket you have at home? etc.
6. To close out the lesson, the teacher will summarize what the five senses are. The teacher
will tell students that they did a great job using the five senses, and that the five senses are
important and something they use in their everyday lives. The teacher will then explain that
the next lesson will be another lesson involving the five senses, in order to get students
prepared and engaged for the following lesson.
Differentiation:
 Students will have physical objects for them to touch, feel, and manipulate. This is
helpful for students who are kinesthetic learners and learn/understand concepts best
when they are able to touch or manipulate objects.
 The basket of toys and the objects around the room will also aid visual learners in
better understanding the idea of the five senses, as they will be asked questions
prompting them to look around and see what they notice.
 The toys and various objects will also be more engaging and interesting for students to
play with and pass around.
 The read aloud book serves as a way to teach children about the five senses. For
students who are auditory learners, they would learn best by listening to these ideas and
concepts presented through a read aloud.
 Before the lesson, students will have a movement break in order to give them time to
stretch, before sitting down and listening to the read aloud. This allows them to reset
their bodies and prepare for the lesson.
Assessment:
During the lesson, the teacher and assistants will be taking anecdotal notes of the students.
Students will be observed on their participation in discussions, raising hands to share, ability to
share their ideas with their classmates, and the different ideas they share about. These notes
will be used as a way to see student’s progress and understanding of these concepts and ideas
and will inform the teacher about any modifications to the lesson that needs to be made.
Follow-up/ Extension Activity
After the large group activity, students will be going on a scavenger hunt. They will be asked
to go around the classroom and find objects that fit various criteria. These criteria may include:
 Something that is blue
 Something that is fuzzy
 Something that is hard
 Something that makes noise
This activity reinforces that lesson and the idea of the five senses, as it encourages students to
use their five senses when looking for these objects. After they have found these objects, they
will have a chance to share what they found.

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Name: Vivian Phan

Central Focus/Overarching Theme: The Five Senses

 Students will be asked to explain what the five senses are.

PK.PDH.1. Uses senses to assist and guide learning.

 Book - My Five Senses by Aliki

Follow-up/ Extension Activity

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