Wearing Glasses

I still remember getting my first pair of glasses. Finding out your eyes don't work quite as well as others is sometimes the first time you realize you are just a little different. As a teacher, children often ask me why I wear glasses. When I explain that my eyes don't work as well as they could, the children automatically assume that I can't see at all without my glasses.

Floyd Stokes has written the book, My Glasses, to help children understand more about glasses. The simple text makes it an easy read aloud for younger children, but there are some facts scattered throughout that will help hold the attention of children through first grade.

Reading My Glasses will help children feel good about wearing glasses. Hopefully it will help others understand and accept differences in their friends, as they learn more about glasses. After a discussion of how a person with glasses is still the same as before getting glasses, children could each design and model a pair of paper or chenille stem glasses. Applause and appreciation for the "new looks" could be expressed, giving everyone get a self esteem boost. An alternative suggestion is to make a college of faces of people wearing glasses.