Sight
Objectives:
The student will develop an appreciation of the ability to see.
The student will be able to observe and analyze the colors of their classmates' eyes.
The student will be able to work cooperatively to produce Big Books.
Motivating Activities
Play the game - Pin the Nose on the Face
Explain to the class they will each have a turn playing "Pin the Nose on the Face." Place a scarf over the child's eyes and spin the child around three times. The task is to try to place the nose on the face that is about 4 feet in front of them. After each child has his/her turn discuss who was closest and furthest. sample
KEY WORDS: Lead to a discussion on seeing/looking, eyes, blindness, color, shape, size, and movement.
| Sample Question. What happened when the scarf was over your eyes? (I couldn't see or look at things). |
| Play Sight Witness Program "Most Wanted" |
| Bring one child in the
front of the class and explain to the rest of the class
that this game requires studying the chosen child for 2
minutes. They are directed to remember as much of the
child as they can. After the set time the child goes to a
hidden area and the rest of the class must remember
attributes of the missing child. How well can they
describe the most wanted? Hint - this works best as an oral activity as opposed to a written activity. |
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 Looking, by Richard L. Allington, and Kathleen Cowles, Illustrated by Bill Bober, Raintree Childrens Books, 1980.
| This is a colorful, 32 paged picture book that is part of a series which has several activities based on the material presented. |
An alternative activity is to create a brief story using the children's names and emphasizing the key words from this lesson. An example of such a story I created is: |
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Create Sight Word Web example
Develop Word Wall example
Eye Color Graphing example
Take a survey of the different eye colors of the students in the
class and create bar graph from data.
| As a follow up to the previous activity, ask each student to create a drawing of his or her own eyes. Number the drawings and display them on a classroom or hallway bulletin board. Encourage students to guess whom each pair of eyes belongs to and award a small prize to the student who correctly identifies the greatest number of eyes. |
Small Group/Center
In pairs draw a picture or use words from the word wall to complete the table example
I can see different |
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Color |
Shape |
Size |
Movement |
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Create Classroom “Seeing” Identification Book.
Each child has his/her picture taken with a digital camera or a picture of each child is scanned and printed. Each page of the book has a picture of a child with the the following verse.
| Classmate, Classmate Who do you see? I see (student’s name) looking at me. (student’s name), (student’s name) Who do you see? I see (next student’s name) looking at me. |
The book continues with the names
of the children written according to the next child's picture. sample
Traffic Signal/Stop Sign
Explain to the students that the
stop sign is recognized universally by its shape, and the
positions of the colors on the traffic signal are
red/yellow/green for the top/middle/bottom. Students make both
universal stop sign and traffic light signals. 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 see with? example
How can you tell what the stop sign or traffic signal means if
you can’t see color? sample