Hi,
Do you find these show and tell posts useful?
I hope that they provide ideas for some of your school projects too.
Here are the older posts for a quick review:
1) Community helpers – Fireman
2) Seasons
3) Transport
This time the topic was: Introduction to sense organs. How each sense organ is useful?
The pictures were taken from a book we have. We photocopied them and cut them out to suit our charts. The main sentences are written in a larger font and the added facts are in a smaller font.
These A4 size charts are as usual kept simple for the understanding of the child.
Handwritten words seem to make my daughter happier so we are still continuing with those. 🙂
We also included some light information, the kids may find funny. For example.: Sneezing
The teacher can help.
Here are some ways, she could guide the child:
(1) Point to the picture of the sense organ and ask what is this?
(2) _____ help us to ____. For example: Eyes help us to see.
(3) Point to the other pictures and help the child to complete the sentences in the charts.
The charts are self-explanatory.
1) EYES
2) NOSE
3) SKIN
Added some touch testers here. We could add these for other sense organs too.
For taste, we could give them certain definitive taste items to taste, like lemon, sweets, Spicy etc.
Even for smell, we could give them different testers with unique fragrance or smells. We could try, an incense stick, a flower, toothpaste, mint candy, lemon and for a foul smell, a vegetable which has rotted.
For eyes, we could give different pictures of different sizes or even alphabets like we have for eye-testing. 🙂
4) TONGUE
5) EARS
Once you have covered these basic information, just open any book on human body which you might have at home and show them random pictures of different body parts, sense organs or explain any process in the most simple ways. (Note for me: First read the book myself!) 🙂
Hope you have enjoyed our simple and cute charts with your little ones.
Do write back to us if you have any queries or need further information.
Rgds,
Poornima
Love your show and tell serie,s Poornima!! I am going to steal your ideas for seasons show-an-tell. 🙂
Thank you Priya. I am very happy that you are going to use these ideas in some way.
One fun way to explore your senses is to grow a TickleMe Plant. The leaves close when you Tickle it or even when you blow it a kiss!
🙂 Oh Yes, I love doing that myself too. 🙂
That is so cool Poornima! Does it really help a two year old though? I think I am going to make it for my girls 🙂
Hi Gauri, you are back. 🙂 Yes, it will help her just to know the basics. For eg. Eyes help us to see. This one line helps them know to point out the eyes, to understand how they help us and to say aloud a complete sentence. Also make a funny face and squint your eyes to say, “Oh! I cannot see clearly. So, what will I need?” and the girls should say, “Glasses or spectacles.” It has to be a bit interactive before they can really say it aloud in front of any one else. 🙂 So, we played a game too. I asked her to put on her sunglasses without using her ears and then we tried the nose. So, it made the point clear that we need ears and nose to hold our spectacles. 🙂 Enjoy your time with them. Just print these pictures out and you can try….
I sure will 🙂
Hi Poornima,
Liked your idea, it’s very nice. I will try this with Dheer. Thanks for sharing your wonderful ideas with us. God Bless U.
Dear Simran, Thanks for always reading our posts and leaving such positive comments. Love to Dheer.
Hi Poornima, This is interesting and helpful. I loved the colourful sketches it will surely help little kids. I visit your blog regularly and enjoy your posts( though I have not commented much). Your header design is lovely.
Dear Nupur, Thank you for your feedback on the header. I was wondering if anyone else liked it as much as I did. 😉 And I am happy that some of these ideas we post about will help you. You just gave me such a lovely start to my day. Have a nice day to you too. 🙂
Great idea, this will sure help, I have a preschooler at home 🙂
Hi Nayana, Welcome to my blog. Glad you liked the idea and these preschoolers have got so smart, haven’t they? It’s difficult to keep up with my three year old. 🙂 Thanks for your feedback.
This really is a cute and creative way of teaching poornima
Kids will for sure love it.kudos
Thanks Afshan. 🙂
I am not a mom yet, but, I really loved the idea of teaching the kiddos. It is so innovative and wonderful!
Thanks so much POoja. Welcome to my blog. I am happy that you visited and left such a sweet comment for me.
Hello Poornima. My name is Taboka from a country called Botswana in Africa. I am currently in India teaching English. I have found your posts to be extremely helpful. My task is to teach spoken English to students who are from different boards of school and backgrounds and have come to this new school. It has proven to be an interesting experience thus far. I was looking at new fun ways to get the students started and thought about show and tell. Your ideas are really great and would like to see more of them. If you have other fun creative ways of teaching English especially spoken, to children, kindly share.
Looking forward to hearing back from you.
Thank you Taboka. I wish you all the best. Let me think on ideas for your suggestion and hope to revert back to you. Many thanks for reading in.
Plz give me some idea to making model of sense organ…..
Hi Snehal, I haven’t tried it yet. A 3 D model would be a little difficult. Try eyes using styrofoam balls.
Hi poorni!
Gm your ideas r great and it is very helpfull for me to teach to my son. Great job. keep posting some interesting things which arevery helpfull to our kids.
Thank you Geeta.
Hi poornima I loved your show and tell topics.can you please tell me where did you get pictures for sense organ topic
Hi, I took them from the books. Get some good “Human body” books from a library/friends/shops and make a color photocopy for the projects.
Or simply use google images.
Hope this helps. 🙂
Really helpful… Thanks a lot.. Am using ur ideas for my daughterz show n tell…
Thank you Grace.
Thank you Grace. All the best.