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Sensing Our Feelings Lesson Plan

Students will identify their sensory preferences across sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell, and connect each to an emotion by filling out a chart and matching emotion cards to senses.

This lesson builds self-awareness and emotional vocabulary by helping young learners recognize how their senses shape feelings. It fosters social connection as students share and value diverse sensory-emotional experiences.

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10 minutes

Step 1

Warm-Up Activity

5 minutes

Step 2

Guided Instruction

10 minutes

Step 3

Hands-On Activity

10 minutes

Step 4

Cool-Down and Reflection

5 minutes

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Sensing Our Feelings

Welcome everyone! Today we're going to learn about our five senses and how what we see, hear, touch, taste, and smell can tell us about our feelings. Get your listening ears ready!

Lesson Objectives

Read the objectives aloud and explain that sensing and emotions go hand-in-hand. Encourage students to think of their own examples.

The Five Senses

Show pictures or real objects for each sense (e.g., apple for taste, bell for hearing). Ask children to call out the sense.

Guided Instruction

Project or display the large [Sensory Preference Chart](#sensory-preference-chart). Invite volunteers to share favorites for each sense and record on the chart.

Emotion-Sense Matching

Demonstrate matching one emotion card to a sense column. Model the thought process: “This smell makes me happy, so I’ll put the happy card under smell.”

Hands-On Activity

Hand out individual charts and cards. Circulate to support partnerships. Encourage discussion: “Why did you choose that emotion for that sense?”

Cool-Down & Reflection

Bring the class back together. Ask 2–3 pairs to share one match and explain. Reinforce that different feelings come from different senses for everyone.

Closing

Thank students for their participation. Collect charts and cards. Remind them to notice their feelings using their senses throughout the day.

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