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Nurses Appreciation Day

Teaching students to show their appreciation is a great way to practice braille literacy skills, while also reinforcing areas of the Expanded Core Curriculum.

It’s important to me that I teach my students the art of giving thanks to those that help them. So often we forget to say “thank you” and I want my students to be appreciative to others for their help. I model the behavior for them whenever possible, and we also do activities like this one. This year we did nurse appreciation gifts.  In addition to practicing their braille literacy skills by writing notes, this was also a great opportunity for them to work on other areas of the Expanded Core Curriculum (ECC), such as social interaction and Orientation and Mobility skills.

Two of my students used ace bandages to wrap around an arm or a leg of a teddy bear. They then filled a syringe (I found these in the Halloween aisle last fall at Walmart) and filled them with M&M mini candies.

Teddy bear with ace bandage and syringe filled with M & Ms
Teddy bear with ace bandage and syringe filled with M & Ms
Another Teddy Bear with syringe of M & Ms
Another Teddy Bear with syringe of M & Ms

One more student did the same, but her bear did not have the ace bandage. 

Two teddy bears with ace bandages, candy filled syringes, and brailled notes
Two teddy bears with ace bandages, candy filled syringes, and brailled notes

They brailled letters to the nurse and then delivered them.  

The text of the letters is as follows:

note to the nurse with printed text and braille
Braille letter to the nurse

Dear Nurse Rios,

Happy Nurse’s Day!  Today you should lie down, sleep, and watch TV.  We think you work too hard and deserve a break.

Love,

The Vision Department

I don’t know who benefited from this activity the most, the students who did the activity or the nurses on the receiving end. Giving thanks is so easy to do and it doesn’t have to be a big production like this. It can be a simple card or a verbalization of thanks. 

Collage of Celebrating Nurses Appreciation Day:  Braille writing and ECC activity for students with visual impairments
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