5 Senses Preschool Theme
Last week we talked about the human body, this week we are building onto that and diving into the 5 senses. The language, science, and art kind of all blend together, but that’s ok!!
| M | T | W | Th | F | |
| Religion | Baby in the basket craft | Play with a baby & basket | Jesus is Always with Me | Teaching Emotions | Bathtub play |
| Language (2) | T shadow matching | Letter T Dot Marker – make sound when dotting | 5 senses clip cards | 5 senses sorting | T miniatures |
| Language (4) | 5 senses sorting chart | Dab it find it CVC practice*** | 5 senses clip cards | 5 senses sorting | Word stretching – could also do a different dab it page |
| Math (2) | Count bells in bowl | Count pom poms in bowl | Count fruit loops in bowl | How many eyes do you have | Count to 4 with numbers |
| Math (4) | Ring the Bell Math | Pom Pom Addition | Fruit Loop Subtraction | Eye Patterns | Teen 10 frame worksheet |
| Art/Sensory | Painting with spices | Texture collage | Listening Walk | Build a tower with duplo (blindfolded for older child) | Food tracing |
| Science Geography History | Match the sound | Guess the smell | Observation memory game | Test your taste buds | Guess the object |
Most religion resources are from ABCJesusLovesMe
“Baby in the Basket” Craft: Print the Baby Moses Craft page. Color and cut out each piece. Cut a piece of blue construction paper in half. Glue on the reeds. Glue the baby in the basket and glue in front of the reeds.
Jesus is Always with Me: Have the child choose five things in the room to bring to you. Place the items in a small area on the floor and place a small blanket over the items.
Ask the child: – Can the objects be seen? – Are the objects still there even though they can’t be seen? – How do you know that the objects are still there? Remove the blanket. Even though we can’t see Jesus, we know He is always with us.
With the objects gathered, turn this activity into a memory game. Without the child watching, remove one object. Have the child figure out which object is missing. For greater difficulty, remove more than one object or add similar items.
Teaching Emotions – talk about different emotions that people have then relate it to the Bible story – How did Moses’ mom feel when she placed Moses in the basket? How did Moses’ sister feel while watching Moses in the basket? How did Moses’ family feel when he was found by Pharaoh’s daughter?
Bathtub Play – Put a small baby figurine and put it on a boat that acts as a basket. Fill up a bathtub and have child try to move the boat to the other side.
Dab it Find It – If you subscribe to her website, you can get the printables free
Word Stretching – You can print out a page of CVC word pictures or just show them pictures on the computer.. Like this one.. Then have them try to stretch out the sounds of the word to try to spell it on the dry erase board. You can tell them that each word has 3 letters to help them.
Texture collage – Glue items like ribbons, beads, gems, paper scraps, feathers, yarn, pom poms, sand paper to a piece of cardboard for a sensory experience
Food Tracing – Draw short straight, zig zag, and wave lines and have child trace/cover them with fruit loops or other cereal
Eye Patterns – Make a chart with number of people on one axis and eyes on the other. Then help them figure out how many eyes 1 person would have, 2 people etc… If you want to challenge them, once you do the first 3-5 with them, see if they can do a couple more by themselves.
Guess the smell – soak cotton balls in oils or extracts that they can guess the smell of, or do spices, herbs, etc…
Observation memory game – Get a group of 5-10 items and have the child try to memorize them, then cover them up and see how many they can remember.