This week focuses on how the eyes enable sight and on the visible parts of the eye. Children compare seeing and not seeing through observation games, optical tools, puzzles, stories, and their ongoing senses book while also investigating the triangle.
What children learn
- Understand that eyes provide the sense of sight and help us discover the world around us.
- Identify visible parts of the eye, including the eyelids, eyelashes, eyebrows, eyeball, iris, and pupil.
- Compare what can be done with eyes open and closed and use visual memory to notice changes.
- Observe similarities and differences in eye features and record them in a senses book.
- Recognise and construct triangles using objects, collage, clay, blocks, and paper.
Key activities
- I Spy and exploration with binoculars, magnifying glasses, and spectacles
- Creating Binoculars from tissue rolls
- Senses Book: Sense of Vision and *The Six Blind Men and the Elephant*
- What Is Missing? visual-memory game
- Eye Puzzle and blindfolded Pin the Tail game
- Sight-themed Show and Tell and triangle collage, clay, building, and tearing activities
You’ll need
eye flashcards, binoculars, magnifying glasses, spectacles, mirrors, small classroom objects, blindfolds, senses books, eye cut-outs, crayons, paper, glue, tissue rolls, clay, triangle flashcards and cut-outs, blocks and tissue paper
Structure: 5 days; each day includes a Thought of the Day, Tuning-in Time, GMD, Cognition/Literacy, FMD, and Numeracy activities.