Lesson Notes By Weeks and Term v3 - Nursery 1

Skin (Touch) and Tongue (Taste)

Subject: Pre-science

Class: Nursery 1

Term: 2nd Term

Week 4

Date:
Theme of the Week: The Five Senses
Topic of the Day: Skin (Touch) and Tongue (Taste)
Age Group: 3–4 years
Duration: 1–2 hours

Learning Objectives:

  1. Understand skin helps us feel.
  2. Identify different textures (soft, rough, smooth).
  3. Understand tongue helps us taste.
  4. Identify simple tastes (sweet, sour).

 

Circle Time:

Pupils touch arms and hands.

Review tongue location.

 

Main Activity:

Touch objects (cotton, stone, fabric).

Taste safe samples (if permitted).

Discuss bathing and brushing teeth.

 

Materials Needed:

Textured objects
Safe tasting samples
Soap and lotion
Taste flashcards

 

Movement Break:

Touch something soft/rough in class.

 

Creative Time:

Colour tongue picture.

Texture collage art.

 

Language Development:

Teacher: “Skin feels. Tongue tastes.”
Pupils repeat: “soft, rough, sweet, sour.”

 

Assessment:

✔ Can the child identify skin and tongue?
✔ Can the child describe soft or sweet?
✔ Does the child understand hygiene?