VIDBE-Q Volume 66 Issue 3
LEGO® Foundation website as well as the APH website
(https://www.legobraillebricks.com/activities). Janessa and I have enjoyed a few of
these activities together. We enjoyed the game, Hidden Words. The game requires
both players to think of a three to four letter word. Each player must find the
lettered bricks that spell the word and stack them in a crazy order. Then they must
ask their opponent to unstack the tower and attempt to unscramble the letters to
make the three to four letter word. This one game reinforces so many skills;
literacy, phonics, social skills to include, turn taking and appropriate game play
etiquette, and encourages fine motor skills as well as using their imagination.
We have also used the bricks to spell out spelling words. This is another
great way to allow your student to have independent work that seems fun rather
than the same old same old. Janessa is given her spelling words individually
brailled on index cards, (we are working on word families) five at a time. Letters
that will most likely not be used such as x, z, v, are removed to help decrease time
to hunt for each letter. Janessa is then asked to spell each word using the bricks and
place them on the gray baseboard. She enjoys the activity and it is a change from
using her Perkins Brailler® to braille each word for practice. Her peers are using
magnetic letters to spell their words and this allows Janessa to have a similar
experience allowing her to feel more included in the learning activities.
