The Five Senses

Ages 3–6 · 5 minutes · English, Science

EW! What stinks? Explore the five senses!

In this lesson, students will:

- Express your actual experiences using the five senses
- Discuss textures and adjectives to explain objects
- Interact and make connections to the story

Part of

Science Stories

Standards alignment

Common Core State Standards

L.K.5.c — Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at school that are colorful).
RL.1.4 — Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.

Alabama

ELA21.K.5b — Describe people, places, things, and events with relevant details in a story with three to five events.
ELA21.K.33 — Express ideas orally and connect these ideas through drawing and emergent writing.

Alaska

L.K.5 — With guidance and support from adults, explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
L.K.5.c — Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at school that are colorful).
SL.1.4 — Describe people, places, things, and events with relevant details, expressing ideas and feelings clearly.

Arizona

K.L.5.c — Identify real‐life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at school that are colorful).
K.L1U1.7 — Observe, ask questions and explain how specialized structures found on a variety of plants and animals (including humans) help them sense and respond to their environment.

Arkansas

K.CC.3.P — Use specific details to orally describe people, places, things, and events.
K.RC.4.RF — Build general and academic vocabulary and background knowledge of age and grade-appropriate topics through discussion, reading, and writing.
K.RC.7.RF — Demonstrate comprehension of age and grade-appropriate texts by speaking or writing.

California

RL.1.4 — Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses. (See grade 1 Language standards 4–6 for additional expectations.)

Colorado

SC.P.1.1.a — Use senses to explore the properties of objects and materials (e.g., solids, liquids).
RWC20-GR.PS-S.1-GLE.1-EO.a — Attend to language during conversations, songs, stories or other learning experiences.
SC.P.1.1.b — Make simple observations, predictions, explanations, and generalizations based on real-life experiences.
SC.P.3.1.d — Observe and discuss common properties, differences and comparisons among objects.

Connecticut

L.K.5.c — Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at school that are colorful).
RL.1.4 — Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.

Delaware

L.K.5 — With guidance and support from adults, explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
L.K.5.c — Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at school that are colorful).
RL.1.4 — Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.

Florida

SC.K.L.14.1 — Recognize the five senses and related body parts.
SC.K.N.1.2 — Make observations of the natural world and know that they are descriptors collected using the five senses.
ELA.K.R.3.1 — Identify and explain descriptive words in text(s).

Georgia

SKP1.b — Use senses and science tools to classify common objects, such as buttons or swatches of cloth, according to their physical attributes (color, size, shape, weight, and texture).
ELAGSEKL5.c — Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at school that are colorful).

Hawaii

K.L.5c — Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at school that are colorful).
1.RL.4 — Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.
K.L.5 — With guidance and support from adults, explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings.

Idaho

K.RS.DR.2 — Listen to a series of texts organized around a variety of conceptually related topics to build knowledge about the world.
K.VD.WB.2d — Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at home that are cozy).
K.VD.WB.3 — With support, use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading, and listening to texts.

Illinois

L.K.5 — With guidance and support from adults, explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
L.K.5.c — Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at school that are colorful).

Indiana

K.CC.3 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media. (E)
K.PS.1 — Plan and conduct an investigation using all senses to describe and classify different kinds of objects by their composition and physical properties. Explain these choices to others and generate questions about the objects.
K.CC.4 — Audibly recite poems, rhymes, and songs, and use complete sentences to describe familiar people, places, things, and events. With support, provide additional details on these topics.

Iowa

L.K.5.c — Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at school that are colorful).
SL.K.6 — Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly when retelling familiar stories or reciting poems, nursery rhymes or lines of a play.
L.K.5 — With guidance and support from adults, explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings.

Kansas

RL.1.4 — Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.
RL.K.12 — With guidance and support from adults, explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
RL.K.12.c — Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at school that are colorful).

Kentucky

L.K.4.c — Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts.
RL.K.4 — With prompting and support, identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.

Louisiana

L.K.5 — With guidance and support from adults, explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
L.K.5.c — Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at school that are colorful).
RL.1.4 — Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.

Maine

With guidance and support from adults, explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
L.5.K.c — Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at school that are colorful).

Maryland

L.K.5.c — Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at school that are colorful).
L.PK.5.c — Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note objects in the classroom that are small).
RL.PK.9 — With modeling and support, compare adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories.

Massachusetts

PreK-LS1-3(MA) — Use their five senses in their exploration and play to gather information.

Michigan

L.K.5 — With guidance and support from adults, explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
L.K.5.c — Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at school that are colorful).
RL.1.4 — Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.

Minnesota

0.2.5.2 — Verbally or visually respond to a story, with support and guidance.
0.2.6.1 — Tell a story about a personal experience or that of a character, verbally, visually or in written form.
0.1.2.1 — With guidance and support, read and monitor understanding of grade-level text, self-correcting as needed, using strategies including, but not limited to, decoding, asking questions and making connections.

Mississippi

L.K.1B.2 — Identify and describe examples of how animals use their sensory body parts (eyes to detect light and movement, ears to detect sound, skin to detect temperature and touch, tongue to taste, and nose to detect smell).
RL.1.4 — Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.

Missouri

K.R.3.B.a — respond to examples of sensory details

Montana

L.K.5 — With guidance and support from adults, explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
L.K.5.c — Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at school that are colorful).
SL.1.4 — Describe people, places, things, and events with relevant details, expressing ideas and feelings clearly.

Nebraska

LA.K.V.2.d — With prompting and support, identify and explain descriptive words and phrases that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.

Nevada

L.K.5 — With guidance and support from adults, explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
L.K.5.c — Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at school that are colorful).
RL.1.4 — Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.

New Hampshire

L.K.5.c — Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at school that are colorful).
RL.1.4 — Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.

New Jersey

L.K.5 — With guidance and support from adults, explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
L.K.5.c — Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at school that are colorful).
RL.1.4 — Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.

New Mexico

L.K.5 — With guidance and support from adults, explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
L.K.5.c — Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at school that are colorful).

New York

KL5c — Use words to identify and describe the world, making connections between words and their use (e.g., places at home that are colorful).
PKL5c — Use words to identify and describe the world around them.
KR4 — Identify specific words that express feelings and senses. (RI&RL)

North Carolina

RL.K.4 — With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about words in a text that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.
SL.K.2 — Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood.
PS.K.1.1 — Analyze and interpret data to classify objects by physical properties (size, color, shape, texture, weight and flexibility).
SL.K.4 — Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.

North Dakota

K.F.11 — Orally use new academic, content-specific, grade-level vocabulary, and relate new words to prior knowledge.
K.L.2 — Identify parts of speech in sentences orally, with illustrations, or in writing:

Ohio

L.K.5.c — Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at school that are colorful).
RL.K.10 — Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding. Activate prior knowledge and draw on previous experiences in order to make text-to-self or text-to-text connections and comparisons.
K.PS.1 — Objects and materials can be sorted and described by their properties.

Oklahoma

PK.8.R — Students will listen and respond to read-alouds, participate in shared reading, and interact independently with texts.
PK.S.2 — Make observations of the physical and natural world. Clarification Statement: Observations should focus on what things look, feel, hear, or smell like, how they might operate or function, and similarities and differences among things inside classroom (e.g., pencils, markers, and highlighters make different marks on paper) and outside a classroom (e.g., leaves look different at different times of year, sticks in different areas of the school yard are different shapes and sizes, it is cooler in the morning than at lunch). Explanations for why things inside and outside the classroom look, feel, or smell the way they do are not expected.
K.8.R — Students will listen and respond to read-alouds, participate in shared reading, and interact independently with texts.
PK.S.4 — Share noticings and wonderings about the physical and natural world. Clarification Statement: Sharing could include drawing, writing, building models, or other creative expressions, such as drama or creative movement. Sharing could include retelling, verbal descriptions, or talking with others. Wonderings might include “why,” “how,” and “what if” statements. Respect for the noticings and wondering of others should be emphasized, but explanations for noticings and wonderings are not emphasized or expected.

Oregon

1.SL.4 — Describe people, places, things, and events with relevant details, expressing ideas and feelings clearly.
1.RL.4 — Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.
K.L.5c — Identify real-life connections between words and their use.

Pennsylvania

CC.1.2.PK.C — With prompting and support, make connections between information in a text and personal experiences.
CC.1.4.PK.O — With prompting and support describe experiences and events.
CC.1.4.K.O — Describe experiences and events.
CC.1.4.PK.T — With guidance and support from adults and peers, respond to questions and suggestions, add details as needed.

Rhode Island

L.K.5.c — Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at school that are colorful).

South Carolina

ELA.K.AOR.8.1 — Determine the effectiveness of an author’s use of words and phrases in literary, informational, and multimedia texts: a. sort words and phrases into categories (e.g., apple, fruit and carrot, vegetable) to develop an understanding of word relationships; b. deepen understanding of words by relating words to their opposites; and c. identify and explain descriptive words and phrases that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.
ELA.K.AOR.1.2 — Identify forms of figurative language to include alliteration and onomatopoeia, as well as descriptive words and rhyme in text.
ELA.K.C.9 — Evaluate and critique ideas and concepts interactively through listening and speaking. (FK -1.3-2.18 LF BR-430)

South Dakota

K.SL.4 — Describe familiar people, places, things, and events. With prompting and support, provide additional detail.
K.L.5.c — Identify real-life connections between words and their use.

Tennessee

K.ETS1.1 — Ask and answer questions about the scientific world and gather information using the senses.
K.LS1.3 — Explain how humans use their five senses in making scientific findings.
1.RL.CS.4 — Identify words and phrases in stories and poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.

Texas

K.3C — identify and use words that name actions; directions; positions; sequences; categories such as colors, shapes, and textures; and locations.
K.4B — use the senses as a tool of observation to identify properties and patterns of organisms, objects, and events in the environment.
K.5A — observe and record properties of objects, including bigger or smaller, heavier or lighter, shape, color, and texture; and

Utah

1.R.8 — Identify specific words and phrases that express emotion, appeal to the senses, and/or determine the meaning of content-specific words within a text. (RL & RI)

Vermont

L.K.5.c — Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at school that are colorful).
RL.1.4 — Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.

Virginia

K.3.c — The student will investigate and understand that physical properties of an object can be described. Properties include textures and feel.
K.5.a — The five basic senses correspond to specific human body structures.
K.5.b — Senses are used in our daily lives.
K.1.f.ii — Communicate observations using pictures, drawings, and/or speech.

Washington

L.K.5.c — Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at school that are colorful).
RL.1.4 — Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.

Washington, D.C.

L.K.5 — With guidance and support from adults, explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
L.K.5.c — Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at school that are colorful).
RL.1.4 — Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.

West Virginia

ELA.PK.SL.EL.3 — Describe familiar people, places, things, and events through a variety of verbal and symbolic forms.
ELA.K.40 — With guidance and support from adults, explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
ELA.K.40.c — Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at home that are cozy).

Wisconsin

ELA.K.L.3.d — Connect common words to real life (e.g., colorful).
ELA.K.SL.4 — With guidance and support, describe familiar people, places, things, and events.
ELA.K.R.4 — With prompting and support, identify specific words that express feelings or content- specific words within a text. (RI&RL)

Wyoming

L.K.5 — With guidance and support from adults, explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
L.K.5.c — Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at school that are colorful).
RL.1.4 — Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.
SL.1.4 — Describe people, places, things, and events with relevant details, expressing ideas and feelings clearly.