[Nfbf-l] Exciting Day!!

[Sherri]

What an exciting project. East Hillsborough is really on the go!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Merry Schoch" <merrys at verizon.net>
To: "NFB of Florida Listserv" <nfbf-l at nfbnet.org>
Cc: "Denise Prophet" <Denise at brailleworks.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2009 8:45 AM
Subject: [Nfbf-l] Exciting Day!!


> Hi All,
>
> I have been so stressed out studying to take the GRE test this Monday; 
> however, today I have set that to the side and am thrilled about what the 
> East Hillsborough chapter is doing.  We are participating in the 
> Children's Festival at USF and , of course, our focus is on braille.  We 
> aren't doing too much different from last year's event except for passing 
> out balloons to the kids.  Thanks to Braille Works we have balloons that 
> on one side has the Louis Braille coin, NFB, and Braille Readers are 
> Leaders logo as well as the Braille Works logo on the opposite side.  I 
> love what their logo states, "Making the World a More Readable Place". 
> How absolutely empowering it will be for a blind child or one who has the 
> potential of going blind, to have the opportunity to learn braille as a 
> child and have the tools available to assist this child to be a "leader".
>
> I am please to be a part of today's events.  We will have displayed our 
> braille Scrabble game, NFB literature, and will have for the first time at 
> the event  "story times" thanks to our one and only State Braille campaign 
> coordinator, Sherrill O'Brien.  We will again distribute braille alphabet 
> cards with the child's (and sometimes adult's) name brailled on it.   Then 
> the thing I love the best and that is the interaction with the children.
>
> We have containers that are covered each with different items in them, for 
> example one of them has kithcen items such as a plate, cup, spoon, fork, 
> plastic fruit, box of cereal, box of triscuits, can of tuna, can of 
> veggies, hot cocoa mix (envelope), envelope of pop corn, etc.  The child 
> is given a scenario and then is told to pick out some items from the 
> container without using their sight.  The other containers have such items 
> as bathroom items, toys, clothes, school supplies, and more.  The kids 
> absolutely love the entire experience and now we can top it off with the 
> helium balloons.  What kid doesn't like balloon?
>
> I am so excited and what a gorgeous day to be out and about.  Just had to 
> share with all you our plans.
>
> Hope you all have a great day,
> Merry
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