All About Me- My Senses- Seeing and Hearing

Pre-K Friends learn about one of five senses- Seeing. It is called the sense of sight. Our eyes are like cameras that never stop taking pictures. Eyes quickly send pictures to our brain. Brain sends us back information about what we see. Our eyes are shaped like round balls. We can only see the front of them. The backs of our eyes are safe inside of our head. Our eyes let us see things far away and close, let us see pretty colors, and to see important signs like "Stop" sign. The sense of sight keep us safe.  How we can keep our eyes healthy and safe?  Protect your eyes- don't look straight on the sunlight or any other source of light, wear sunglasses during sunny days.

 There are sounds all around us. Some sounds make us want to dance. Some make us aware of danger. Some sounds are high like a whistle sound, some sounds are low, like a drum sound. How do we hear them?  Hearing is one of the senses. Why do we have two ears? Why are they located on both sides of our head? It helps us hear sounds all around us. When we look in a mirror, we can see only a part of our ear that is called the outer ear. It is shaped like a baseball glove. This shape helps to catch the sounds. But what happens next?  The sounds travel into the little hole in our ear straight to a eardrum that starts vibration that passes on to other parts of inner ear: three little bones, tube and to the nerves that send special message to our brain. Brain "reads" the message and lets us know what sound do we hear. 

Senses keep us safe!