[blindkid] People Braille

[Bonnie Lucas]

Cool, I love it!
Bonnie
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Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2009 3:58 PM
Subject: [blindkid] People Braille


> Greetings!
>
>
>
> I came up with this as a new way for my Saturday School kids to have fun
> with Braille. Not all of my ingenious ideas stick (c'mon!-smile)-hope this
> one will. Try it with your kids, families and their friends at your 
> seminars
> or Saturday schools, at your teen nights and student meetings or chapter
> meetings, with your students in school and to sighted classmates, post it 
> on
> www.braille.org <http://www.braille.org/> .
>
>
>
> People Braille
>
> You will need: a minimum of six people (for each cell)
>
> A minimum of six frozen pizza cardboard circles (or cut out your own)
>
> Tape the circles with double sided carpet tape or good old duct tape to 
> the
> floor about 12 inches apart in the shape of a Braille cell
>
> Each person represents a dot. For a "round" or game someone would be dot 
> one
> always and someone dot two, etc.
>
> For the Braille novice or learner do the alphabet
>
> For those with grade II knowledge and depending on the size of the group
> take it up a notch to contractions
>
> The leader would call out "letter A" and of course only dot one would get 
> on
> the cell, "letter B" and dots one and two and so on and so forth.
>
> You could figure a way to keep it competitive and keep score for learners, 
> a
> penalty for not knowing your dot number needed to get on or off the cell 
> for
> example.
>
>
>
> I believe this has potential to be a great, fun, active way to get 
> learners
> to correlate and remember dot numbers with each letter or contraction 
> while
> getting a sort of mental map, repetition that is not boring works wonders
> for learning! It is also a great way for siblings and family and 
> interested
> others to learn.
>
>
>
> Try it and tell me how it went!
>
>
>
>
>
> Happy Braille to you!
>
>
>
> Carrie Gilmer, President
>
> National Organization of Parents of Blind Children
>
> A Division of the National Federation of the Blind
>
> NFB National Center: 410-659-9314
>
> Home Phone: 763-784-8590
>
> carrie.gilmer at gmail.com
>
> www.nfb.org/nopbc
>
>
>
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