Books
Adapting One Rainy Day for Students with Visual Impairments
Ideas to adapt One Rainy Day for children with visual impairments and multiple disabilities
Ruby in Her Own Time: Circle Time Braille Kit
Ideas for circle time activities to develop pre-braille skills in young children who are blind or visually impaired
Growing a Rainbow: Accessible Ideas for Children with Multiple Disabilities
Preschool children with visual impairment can learn basic concepts, hands-on activities, and the book can be made accessible through a story box, tactile symbols, picture symbols, and a talking book.
Spring Activities
Make your own experience books as the students explore the signs of Spring. Attached new leaves, grass, or flowers on a card book and write about it.
Creating interactive learning among our students creates interest, exploration, and uses a variety of skills. Using sensory bins for theme based learning touches on various learning objectives.
Make an indoor planting station sensory bin with dirt, seeds, flowers, pots, and hand shovels. STEM learning can take place in so many ways with this. The picture shows a container that can be purchased through Lakeshore.
Make areas of indoor learning by having a plant station where students can dig in dirt, make flower pots, plant seeds, and learn about a plant’s life cycle
Itsy Bitsy Spider: Circle Time Braille Kit
This circle time braille kit focuses on the letter “s” and related skills through hands-on activities for emerging braille readers.
A teacher makes a bulletin board that is accessible to students who are blind or visually impaired, using braille and tactile graphics to explain the water cycle.
Nature walks can inspire students with visual impairments to write about what they find.
Messy and Muddy: A Guide to Outdoor Play for Children with Vision Impairment
Eggs and Easter Ideas and Activities
There are some great resources shared by teachers on Paths to Literacy. We highlighted just a few to help with your lesson planning and goals during this springtime. We have egg hunt ideas for our students with visual impairments and Easter crafts.
