[blindkid] People Braille

[melissa Green]

This is a cool game.  You can use it for lots of activities.
Sounds like fun.
Melissa R. Green
Every answer asks a more beautiful question. --e e cummings


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Carrie Gilmer 
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  Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2009 1:58 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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