Sight

Songs: Look Around the Room/World With Me; Five Senses Song; Popcorn Popping
Books: I Spy, Where's Waldo? Martin Handford, The Eye Book  by Theo. LeSieg (Dr. Seuss),
           Seeing  by Robin Nelson
Craft: draw pictures of things you see outside
Outside: Play 'I Spy', sing  'Look Around the World With Me', find colors
Snack: anything with lots of color--carrots (good for eyesight!), craisins, grapes, apples, etc.

Supplies needed:

• paper and markers/crayons for coloring
• family pictures
• blindfold

Begin with singing some of the songs, ending with Five Senses Song.  Explain that today we're going to talk about our sense of sight.  Read Seeing. 

Explain that we see with our eyes--this is called sight.  Let your child look closely at your eyes.  With our eyes we see colors (see how many colors you can find).  With our eyes we read books (you can read some books now or wait until later).  With our eyes we see the people we love (look at family pictures and identify everyone).

What would it be like if we didn't have sight?  Put on a blindfold, then sing 'Look Around the Room' again.  Ask them why they can't see what you see.  Have them try to pick something up off the floor.  Is it hard to do it without sight?  Tell why you are grateful for your sight.

Take paper & colors outside.  Draw two eyes in the middle of the paper, then let your child illustrate (or dictate to you what to draw) what he/she sees outside.  Play 'I Spy', sing 'Look Around the World With Me,' and see how many colors you can see outside.  If you feel like it, you can whip out the blindfold again, or just have your child close his/her eyes.  Tell your child how grateful you are for the beautiful world and for eyes to see it with.

Additional ideas:

• our eyes see shapes--anything to do with finding/drawing shapes