Miss M

I’m so excited! My sister is coming up to my school on Monday to do a workshop with all of the third grade students. She teaches blind students and this is a workshop designed to help the students be more understanding of children with disabilities.

Students will have the opportunity to visit many different stations around the library, assisted by the teachers. They include the following (although I may have forgotten some of them):

• Braille Center…she brings a few Braille typing machines, some books in Braille and a sheet for each student to decode that is written in Braille.
• A center that partners the students up to have one lead another who is blindfolded up to the office to choose a piece of candy (by touch) out of a bowl of candy.
• A center that has bottles of different scents that the students try to identify. It’s things like lemon, vanilla, chocolate, etc.
• A center that is a listening station, where all of the students have to identify different sounds just by listening. These are sounds such as a telephone, water running, someone walking, etc.
• A center that has verbal instructions of patterns and things to draw. One student describes how to draw the pattern. Everyone else tries to draw it without looking at the picture.
• A center where you are blindfolded and trying to put together puzzles (the wooden ones that you fit a shape into a hole) and play some tactile board games.
• The last one that I remember was a center that had a bag with different shapes in it. You drew 3 cards that had shapes on them, and you tried to reach in the bag and pull out the correct shape without looking at it to match the shapes on your cards.

My students had a great time with it last year! I can’t wait to see it in action, again!