The Five Senses


         First Opening prayer - The Spiritist Volunteer will ask one child to read one topic of the “The Lord’s Prayer”. A box of prayer will be introduced afterward. Please ask for one child to volunteer himself/herself to read the prayer for the class. Please ask the child to say his/her words as well, as to complement the opening prayer.

         Second: Welcome the children into the session. Say how happy we are to see them there and how important they are for the class. Play hot potato game with the children. When the music stops the child who is holding the hot potato ball will be asked to mimic one of the five senses: touch, sight, hear, smell and taste.

         Third: Sing songs together; get the children to remain standing but in a circle.

         +++ sing other songs from the songs’ list as per attached here.

         Please find other options here below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot4mJ_qUNMY      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muLibqQ8ZoI

         Fourth: Place six different shaped objects in six socks which have been labelled with numerals. Have children divide a paper into 6 boxes and number them. Pass the socks around and have the students make a picture of what they think is inside from feeling them. Take out the objects and compare the drawings to the actual objects.

         What sense did you use to be able to complete this task?

         Fifth: What's in the mystery bag? How did it feel? Was it squishy, yukky, hard, soft, smooth or rough? Fill plastic bags with different textured materials and then place the plastic bag inside lunch bags to hide them. Some suggestions are cold cooked spaghetti, rocks, toothpaste, mashed bananas, fur fabric and ice cubes.

         What sense did you use to be able to complete this task?

         Sixth: Place about 10 common objects on a tray. Show each one to the class; hide the tray and remove one object. See if the children can remember which object is missing.

         What sense did you use to be able to complete this task?

         Seventh: Each child will be told an animal and will need to make this animal sound so the rest of the children will have to guess what it is.

         What sense did you use to be able to complete this task?

         So, now how can we take care of our physical body?
         How should we treat it?
         How can we respect it?

         Eighth: Activity below, which was found on the internet.



         As a culmination to your five senses unit, have the children make self-portraits; then glue on wiggle eyes, cotton ball dipped in perfume (nose), jingle bells (ears), sand paper (hands) and licorice (mouth). Use this caption:

         "_____________ has Five Senses".

         Ninth: Healing Theatre: Prepare the kids for the healing time in the spiritist centre. Put one chair at the centre of the room and ask one child of each time to seat on the chair and show how he/she would be behaving upstairs when they are called to go to the healing room with their parents.

         Tenth: Preparation for closing prayer - Kids should choose a passage from the: Gospel According to the Spiritism for the kids, The Spirits Book for kids or the Heaven or Hell. The volunteer will encourage the others kids to volunteer themselves for reading and give a quickly comment about it.

         Eleventh: Closing prayer - One of the children will do a closing prayer; encourage the children to volunteer for this task. If they don’t want to collaborate we could say we will follow the letters of the alphabet. The child’s name that starts with the letter A will do the opening prayer this time. Everybody will have the chance to collaborate.

         Extra activity.

         Closing prayer

         Class suggested being suitable for: Nursery (3 to 4 years old) and Kindergarten (5 to 6 years old).

         Spiritist volunteer: Carolina von Scharten, London, linked to BUSS - The British Union of Spiritist Societies.



                  

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