Summary of our visual perception

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﻿Hi, I'm really looking forward to our lesson today. I hope you are too. Before we get started, this is just a little reminder. We're here to support any approaches you might already be using, and any work you might have already been set. We know that this lesson is going to be going out to so many different children and families. So if you're not sure about anything or have any questions, then please do contact your usual therapy team. In our last lesson on visual perception, we're going to put all the skills that we have learned and practised so hard, all together. And we're going to do some step-by-step drawing. I really enjoy this lesson. Today is our last lesson on visual perception. You have all done such a fantastic job. Let's remind ourselves what have we learned about visual perception? Well, our visual perception is what helps us to make sense of what we're seeing, see the small, important details, block up and ignore any unnecessary information, understand what something is, when we just see a part of it, remember things we have seen, anticipate or guess what something will feel like or act like, and recognise that similar things can look a little different, but be much the same. Pause the video now, to get the items you will need today. Plain paper of different thicknesses, if you want, and different coloured pens or pencils. Restart when you're ready. So let's start by drawing a picture. Take a piece of paper and draw a picture. If you're struggling to come up with ideas, then ask an adult to help you. Don't make it too simple, challenge yourself. Instead, add a few different parts to it. This could be something like a house, a face or a picnic. Try and make sure that they're different shapes such as curves, diagonal lines, and maybe even loops. Okay. Here you can see that I've drawn a house on some grid paper. And at the top you can see that there are letters. And at the bottom on the left hand side, rather, there are numbers. So what I've done there is I've just counted, how many squares are at the bottom, and I've done three loops. So you're going to go across and draw three lines. Now let's see how many are up and down. Okay? So you can see that there are one, two, three, four squares down. And so now I'm going to draw a line that goes four squares high. And you can see that it's three across, because we measured that, we counted that out earlier. So I'm going to go three across and then we're going to go three down. Okay? So you can say to yourself, I will start my house at a certain number that corresponds to a certain letter, or you can just count the squares, that's absolutely fine. And we're then going to make a triangle. Okay? So you can see I've traced that triangle first, just to get the movement. And now I'm going to go up, about the middle and I've done my first side of my roof. Okay. So looking again, hues in the grids, you're going to start in the middle, and you're going to go down and connect it to the square of the house. And I'm just going to finish that line there because I made it yellow. Right. So now what you can see is... Oh, I'm just going to make the lines thicker. And quite often when I'm drawing or copying, I'll start with just a light line and then I'll do some thicker lines. Okay. So now we need to add the windows and the door. So you can again, count how many squares across and how many squares up. You have to make your door in the same position that it is on the left hand side. Okay? So you've counted one, and now you can go up for two, across for one, and down for two. Yeah. And you can see that this will really help you. Oh, I think I lost my cursor there guys. Oopsie! Let's get it back. Okay. So you can see by having the grid paper, or paper with little squares, it really helps you when you're first learning where to draw and how to draw. Okay. Now let's look at the windows and you've counted and it's there, and now let's do the next window. Okay? And across, and again, you can make the colours thicker of the outlines once you're happy that that's where you want them to be. And there it is, guys, you've drawn a house. How awesome is that? Amazing. Well done. Okay. So this picture is quite a bit more complicated. But you can see that if you follow the same method of following the squares, counting them along, with enough practise, you could then draw a tree. You can even write your name by simply counting the number of squares that each letter takes up. Okay. Pause that video now to draw your own picture. Restart once you're finished. Now, what you can do is, you've made a fantastic drawing. So now you can colour in what you've just drawn. Now take your pencils, your pens, your crayons, and have a go at colouring in the different parts, in different colours. So the windows can be one colour. The roof can be different colour. The door could be a different colour, and the main house can be a different colour as well. Okay? Pause the video now to try colouring in your picture. So we can change this activity in so many ways to make it easier or harder to suit your skills. You can start off with doing really simple pictures, and just try and make sure that they have two or three parts in them. You could also ask an adult to help you out by giving you some ideas of what to draw, or by drawing some parts for you. And you could even make it like a little team project where everyone draws a section of the picture. If you find it really tricky to colour, then just start by trying to stay in the lines more and more each time. Remember, try to colour in the outline of the picture first, that really helps me. Remember, do the best for you. Practise, practise, practise, and have lots of fun while doing it. If you'd like to, please ask your parents or carer, to share pictures of what you've drawn and coloured in on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter, tagging @OakNational and #LearnwithOak. Bye. See you soon.

Summary of our visual perception

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