Provide hands-on activities for practice and mastery. Check for understanding of concepts and skills by using relevant standard materials, i.e. worksheets, text problems, workbooks, teacher prepared exercises, etc.

Centers: Listening, Book Nook, Writing, Math

Objective: To provide hands-on opportunities for children to experience/extend what they learned in Step 4.

Activity:
Centers: Sense of Smell, Sense of Touch, Sense of Taste, Sense of Sight, Sense of Hearing. Sense of Hearing Center: Children listen to a tape of common household sounds and identify each sound; trace large ear pattern, cut out ear, write/draw pictures of favorite sounds on the ear; match containers with the same sounds by shaking the containers; listen to books-on-tape regarding sound, e.g., The Listening Walk; make tin can telephones to use to talk to friend; listen to George Winston's Autumn and color while listening.
Sense of Sight Center: Read books and magazines about the five senses; look in a mirror and draw eye the size and shape of own eyes, paste eyes on the Senses Mural; play "eye doctor" using eye chart to check "patient's" vision; look at various still life prints and identify the flowers, fruits, vegetables and insects in the paintings; visit an art museum or museum of natural history with parents or as a class and look for plants and animals in art or on display.
Sense of Touch Center: Feely Box with objects of various textures to be felt and identified by child; finger paint making a design of choice; place objects of varying textures in the sand table, use straws and bubble blowers in the water table to create bubbles--feel the texture; create sense of dirt, mud, worms by mixing chocolate pudding (mud) and crushed oreo cookies (dirt) and placing gummy worms into mixture--explore the worms in the mud with hands and eat own creations.
Sense of Smell Center: Children smell small film canisters filled with objects of varying fragrances and determine the smell; describe favorite smells at home; using black paper and different smelling soaps, draw a picture or design of choice; describe the smell of a fresh bouquet of flowers; go on smells walk around the school.
Sense of Taste Center: Children taste foods with four different tastes--salty, sweet, sour, bitter and record responses on worksheet; make own snack--put peanuts, chocolate chips, coconut, sunflower seeds, and raisins in small brown bag and shake; write or draw pictures of favorite foods on large tongue.

Assessment: Quality and accuracy of work products, level of participation at each center, ability to follow directions and work cooperatively.