[nobe-l] Blind Teacher Question

[Angela Dehart]

Hi Caitlyn! 
I have found some great calendars and weather related items for my “morning meeting” as we have always called it, on Amazon when looking at classroom items. For my own classroom I have always picked one that went with whatever my classroom theme was for the year, laminated each item and then added velcro to each of the items to make them moveable and interactive for the students. Plus the added benefit of making them reusable! Most of these calendar items are very cute, colorful and fun for the students and have font that is easy for them to read. For my own benefit I have added Braille labels to each item to ensure readability for myself. Last year I did this will an owl themed bulletin board calendar set I purchased off of Amazon. It came with the blank 
Calendar, days of the week labels, months of the year labels, dates and holidays and a weather chart.  All of which was large enough to use on a bulletin board. I do not know if any come with Braille already on them but it would be worth checking into. Hope this helps! 

Angela Dehart 

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> I work with preschool students and we do the calendar and weather
> every day. I was wondering if there are weather charts or calindars
> with movable labels so students can interact with it in print/braille
> with pictures for the students?
> Thanks
> Ashley
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> Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2018 09:30:50 -0600
> From: Kaden Colton <atmosaddict at gmail.com>
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> Hi Asey,
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> Something Ive  used for the weather has been to use cotton balls on a cut out of a cloud. I glue  the  cotton balls on the edges of the cut out and use print and Braille in the middle. I use different print outs with cotton balls to represent the various types of clouds. For the sun, I've used yellow wikisticks on a round piece of paper. As for rain, I've combined the cloud cut outs with rubber cut outs that look like rain drops it may be possible to use Braille tape to label the rain drops.
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> If you are looking to put up the daily weather on a weekly Callander, maybe using Velcro could be helpful. I'm not sure if you wanted to have the week or month view, but something reusable and where numbers and the names of the months in print and Braille could be changed on whatever basis you need could be an idea you use.
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> Hopefully some of these ideas help answer some of the things you asked about.
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> Cheers,
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> Kaden Colton
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>> On 14 Jul 2018, at 09:09, Caitlyn Spurgeon via NOBE-L <nobe-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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>> I work with preschool students and we do the calendar and weather
>> every day. I was wondering if there are weather charts or calindars
>> with movable labels so students can interact with it in print/braille
>> with pictures for the students?
>> Thanks
>> Ashley
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