Touch

 

Objectives:

The student will discover properties of objects in their environment through the sense of touch.

The student will be able to create a touch pattern using two different materials.

The student will be able to work cooperatively to complete the like/don't like to touch chart.

 

 

Motivating Activity
Feely Box (cotton, spaghetti, sandpaper, feather, sponge, satin, coin, toothpaste, tape, glue, marshmallow, hand lotion, and zipper).
Allow the children to take turns feeling the different items in the feely box. sample

Explain to the class they will each have a turn touching the different items in the feely box.. The box can easily be made from a large, covered shoe box with a hole cut out large enough to pass through a child's hand. One at a time each child puts his/her hand into the box and touches one of the items. The task is the student will use his/her own words to explain and try to identify the item.

Each item from the feely box should be labeled and added to the word wall.

KEY WORDS: Lead to a discussion on touching, hand, skin, soft, hard, rough, cold, smooth, texture, sharp, and dull.

Sample Question. What did the item you touched feel like? (It felt gooey).
Activities

Whole Group

There are many picture books readily available in school or public libraries. The following is the one I selected; however, you may find one that you are more comfortable with.

Read the book, Beginning to Learn About Touching, by Richard L. Allington, and Kathleen Cowles, Illustrated by Yoshi Miyake, Raintree Childrens Books, 1980.
This is a colorful, 32 paged picture book that is part of a series which explores different textures and includes several activities based on the material presented.

Create Touch Word Web example
Develop Word Wall example

Small Group/Center

In pairs draw a picture or use words from the word wall to complete the table.

Things I like to touch

Things I don't like to touch
   
   
   
   

Fingerpaint
Students can fingerpaint pictures of things they like to touch and label them according to how they feel.

Touch Patterns
In the math center, children make a "Touch Pattern". Math center is supplied with several different feeling objects (i.e. cotton and popsicle stick, sandpaper and piece of satin), and each child makes a pattern using at least 2 separate materials. example

Assessment

My students write daily in a journal. In their writing journals the students respond to the questions:

What part of the body do you touch with?
How does touching help us understand the world?