Students in our middle group of students this fall, have been reading a biography by Margaret Davidson titled Louis Braille: The Boy Who Invented Books for the Blind. At the same time we’ve slowly been reading the picture book Six Dots: The Story of Young Louis Braille by Jen Bryant in our class each week as we discuss the chapters they have read and answered questions about. During class students have worked on decoding braille words and will be creating some of their own braille words.

As we finish this book, we are moving on the Child of the Silent Night about Laura Bridgeman who is deaf, blind and mute. In class, we work on learning the manual sign language alphabet and discuss what we have read in our books. We relate what we have read to ourselves and the world.