
Prepare Transportable Kits
It is not always easy for a child with visual impairment to show their parents what they have learned at school. Here are some tips to help students share their learning at home.
TIPS & TRICKS
Teachers and practitioners want to make the most of the time they spend with their students. This is how to organise the toolkit for both teachers and children.
The 300 LEGO Braille Bricks are loose in the box. We recommend to sort them for both children and teachers.
Teachers can make alphabet towers. All the blocks are arranged on a base plate in stacks of 4: all the letters of the alphabet, punctuation marks and accents, numbers and mathematical symbols.
In this way, teachers have a quick access to the needed letters.
This sorted baseplate goes in the box with the other 2 basic boards.
It’s important to sort the bricks to save time.
There are only four letter Ps in the box, so it’s impossible to find them quickly.
And it’s even worse when you’re searching with your fingers and not your eyes.
Here is a way to sort all the bricks in the box, following the order written on the overview card.
Each letter comes in multiples of four. We recommend that you make stacks of four bricks.
For some letters you will have several stacks. Here five stacks of letter A.
You start placing them at the top left corner and you follow the first line.
Five stacks of As, two of Bs. 3 stacks of Cs, 3 piles of Ds.
When you finish the first line, you have to go to the second row and leave space.
1 or 2 studs, so it will be easier for you to reach the bricks in the middle.
When you’ve placed all the letters, you still have the last row with the capital sign.
Comma, apostrophe, period. And all the math symbols.
Put the alphabet baseplate, the two baseplates in the box.
And you can close easily the entire toolkit.
For children who are just starting to read and write, prepare a lighter baseplate with one column of letters. It will be easier for them to access the letters one by one, with space between the bricks
and between the rows.
And for math activities, you do the same with numbers.
So one column and one stack of each number and one row with all the mathematical signs.
Stacks of 4 bricks are generally too difficult for children to handle. We recommend preparing stacks of just 2 bricks, just letters if they are for a reading activity, or just numbers for a maths activity.
Very young children or beginners may only need one brick of each letter or number.
Creating alphabetical or numerical baseplates with children helps them learn brick arrangement and locate characters quickly. They enjoy it as a warm-up.
Prepare Transportable Kits
It is not always easy for a child with visual impairment to show their parents what they have learned at school. Here are some tips to help students share their learning at home.
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