Aliki
My Five Senses and other books
Lesson plans and teaching resources

Johnny Appleseed
This lesson focuses on sequencing events in a story.

A Happy Time
After listening to the book "Feelings," students write about a happy time in their own lives.

Marianthe's Story: Painted Words, Spoken Memories
A variety of activities with emphasis on reading skills. Scroll down to find printable student worksheets. This 11-page document requires Adobe Reader for access.

Making Sense of our Senses
Students listen to stories about the five senses. They will also explore objects using their senses, discuss the use of their senses with their friends, and write about using their senses.

My Five Senses
Cross-curricular activities using the book.

Using My Senses
This science and literacy lesson uses both Aliki's My Five Senses and A Pocketful of Cricket by Rebecca Caudill. Students consider what they can do with their senses, and they study crickets.

Using Senses in My Community
This lesson goes with My Five Senses. Students use all their senses to appreciate and celebrate the differences and similarities of shapes, colors, fruits, a rainbow and the human race, and therefore understand how humans depend on all our senses to understand the world.

We are Best Friends
This lesson is part of a series of lessons entitled New Kid in School. Students explore what happens when a friend moves away and work on how to manage the changes.