Time Saving Tips

💡Low Prep Vision Activity💡

Using your bulletin boards that contain academic content—such as letters, heart words, pattern words, numbers, and shapes—can easily double as an engaging eye-movement activity in the classroom. By slowly moving a flashlight or red laser pointer from one content word or symbol to another, students visually track the light as it travels across the board. This encourages smooth eye movements as their eyes follow the light from left to right, up and down, or across different distances. While tracking, students are also visually reinforcing academic concepts, making this a simple, purposeful way to support both visual skills and learning at the same time.
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The same bulletin board of academic content can also be used to encourage saccadic eye movements, which involve quick, purposeful shifts of the eyes from one target to another. Instead of moving the light smoothly, briefly point the flashlight or laser dot to one letter, word, number, or shape, pause, then quickly jump to a new location. Students move their eyes rapidly to find and fixate on each new target, strengthening their ability to shift focus efficiently. This activity supports visual attention and control while continuing to reinforce familiar academic content in a fun, low-prep way.