Basic braille
6-Car Parking Lot
Park the car in the right space. And don’t forget the passengers!
Braille Band
All together on the giant braille cell!
Activity details
All the children for one letter!
Yes, you may have to squeeze to fit into the right hoops…
Goals
To understand the positions of the 6 dots within a braille cell.
To develop team spirit.
The adult prepares
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6 hula-hoops
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10 random bricks in a bowl
Arrange the 6 hoops like a braille cell, and tape them on the floor.
Add a tactile marker on hoop 1.
The children play
1
Player 1 picks a brick, feels its dots and says the dots numbers.
2
All the children work together to copy the pattern of dots.
They decide who stands in which hoop and go to the right hoop.
Facilitation tips
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Propose some preliminary exercises to get used to the cell.
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Choose 2 different kinds of hula hoops to make a distinction between the rows of dot 1-2-3 and dot 4-5-6.
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Choose a letter with more dots than the number of children who are playing (they will have to find a solution, like using an object, or asking the teacher to play).
