Five Senses Sort, Pick the Sense and Describe Worksheets K-2
- 34 pages
- Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd
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About this resource
The five senses are one of the first science ideas in K-2, and most pages stop at "match the eye to see." This is a
complete kit that works from the words: a child sorts describing words by the sense they belong to, picks the sense a
phrase tells about, finds the word that is different, chooses the word that fits, describes a place with every sense,
and cuts and glues words onto sense mats. It comes with a tracker, a class grid and a family update, so nothing has
to be written from scratch. Words only: there are no pictures to cut or color.
EVERYTHING INSIDE (34 pages)
- 19 student pages in 8 page types: Meet the Five Senses, My Sense Words, Which Sense?, Which One Is Different?,
Which Word Fits?, Sort the Words, Describe It, and Cut and Glue
- 104 scored items on 14 pages, every answer read from the same word lists that print the pages
- 35 cut-and-glue pieces on 4 sense mats (8 words in two boxes, 8 in two boxes, 9 in three boxes, 10 in five boxes)
- 40 describing words, 8 for each sense, each chosen to belong to one sense only
- 2 answer keys, generated from the same data as the student pages
- 1 tracker (page, page type, items right, date) and 1 whole-class progress grid
- 1 team note (a hand-off page between team meetings) and 1 home page (the five senses in one room or place)
- 1 filled example (an invented student), 1 phrase bank (16 observable-language starters), 1 binder cover and
6 divider tabs with a spine label to cut out
- Start Here and a how-to-read-a-page page
The Page Types, Easiest First
1. Meet the Five Senses (starting): see, hear, touch, taste and smell, with the part of the body for each and three
example words. The child picks a sense and writes a word.
2. My Sense Words (starting): a word mat of all 40 words, 8 for each sense, to keep beside the child.
3. Which Sense?, 3 pages (1 to 3 dots): a phrase such as "a booming drum"; circle the sense that tells about it. One
page with 2 choices, one with 3, one with all 5.
4. Which One Is Different?, 2 pages (1 or 3 dots): four words, three from one sense. Set A circles the odd word and
writes its number; Set B uses phrases and writes the sense the other three use.
5. Which Word Fits?, 2 pages (2 or 3 dots): the sense is in a box; circle the word that fits, from 3 chips and then 4.
6. Sort the Words, 3 pages (1 to 3 dots): write each word in the box for its sense, with 2 senses, then 3, then all 5.
Every box has one extra place for a word of the child's own.
7. Describe It, 3 pages (1 to 3 dots): a place (the park, the kitchen, the beach) and a sentence to finish for each
sense. The first page has 4 word hints for every sense, the second 2, the third none.
8. Cut and Glue, 4 pages (1 to 3 dots): a big sense mat with a labeled box for each sense and a strip of words that
touch edge to edge, so cutting is a few straight lines. Mats sort into two, two, three and five boxes.
Built For The Child Holding The Page
A big "My name" line, one short instruction, large rounded type, big answer boxes, and dots (not words or colors) to
show which level a page is. Nothing on a student page is written for an adult.
No Guessing The Answer
Wherever a child picks among printed spots (the circled sense, which chip is right, which of four words is different,
the order of the pieces on the cut strip), the position of the right answer is checked so it does not sit in the same
spot three times in a row. Words that honestly belong to two senses were left out, and no question or wrong choice
names the sense it is not asking about.
Type In, Or Print
The name line and every answer box are type-in fields in any PDF reader: click one, type, then save. The same goes for
the tracker, the class grid, the team note and the home page. This is a fillable PDF; it is not a Google Slides or
PowerPoint file. Every page prints clean in black and white.
Who This Is For
Kindergarten through 2nd grade classrooms, self-contained and resource rooms, and any teacher who wants a
science-and-vocabulary center on the five senses.
What This Is, And What It Is Not
A five-senses worksheet set with the record-keeping around it. It is not a timed test, a screener, a clinical tool,
or a claim about any student's age or rate of progress. There is no IEP goal language or eligibility wording anywhere
in the file.
