Braille

During guided reading this week we focused on figuring out what was important in non-fiction texts using a article describing Helen Keller.  We dove deep later in the week and created our names in Braille using miniature chocolate chips.  We had a great time learning how people  can be different, but still make a difference.  Louise Braille became blind and at the age of 13 created Braille so blind people, including Helen Keller, could read like everyone else.  We had discussions about compassion for others that are different than us, and really grew an appreciation for others.

We had to study the Braille alphabet to correctly represent our names in Braille.  We even had to include an extra character in our names to show that they are capitalized. 

Teamwork

We used teamwork to build our foam rug. We had to obey rules when building our rug; colors couldn't touch and the edge had to match the tiles. It took us a while to build this rug because we had to take apart the rug to fix it so it followed the rules.

We use this rug everyday so we can easily see things on the SMARTboard. We like to learn on this rug.

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