The final week consolidates Unit 1 through name recognition, body awareness, and integrated use of all five senses. Multi-sensory fruit and food investigations, sound games, art, the completed senses book, Show and Tell, and rectangle tasks give children varied opportunities to recall and demonstrate prior learning.
What children learn
- Revisit personal names, name initials, body parts, and the functions of the five senses.
- Connect sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch with the corresponding body parts.
- Apply several senses together to observe and describe fruits, foods, and the school environment.
- Recall and sequence familiar sounds and classify tastes as sweet, sour, salty, bitter, or savoury.
- Revisit rectangles through construction, craft, hunts, and lacing.
Key activities
- Name Web and decorated name plates
- Exploring Five Senses Through Fruits and *The Mango Tree* paper-tearing activity
- Sounds of Objects listening and sequencing game with drum painting
- Blindfolded Guess the Food Item and citrus printing
- Sensory walk and My Senses Book Show and Tell
- Rectangle stick construction, robot craft, hunt, straw work, and lacing
You’ll need
yarn, name cards, paper, markers, stickers and glue, assorted fruits, textured paper, bells and other sound-making objects, blindfolds, assorted foods, citrus fruits and paint, My Senses Book, rectangle flashcards, cut-outs, foam, sticks, straws and laces
Structure: 5 days; each day includes a Thought of the Day, Tuning-in Time, GMD, Cognition/Literacy, FMD, and Numeracy activities.