Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Tuesday February 15, 2011


https://d2l.cbe.ab.ca/        This is the link to room 7's D2L site.  Please go to this site to find:
                          -    Weekly Spelling Lists
                              -    Weekly Reading Pages
                -    Weekly Poems
                                             -    Books that we have done in class

Our spelling books and a new word list for next week's spelling homework is coming home today.
This week's words are:

      do               good               out               who               she               must


Today we talked about the sense of sight and how some people do not have the sense of sight and are blind.  We learned about the Braille system that blind people use to help them read.  We made our names, using beans, to demonstrate how a blind person can use their fingers to read.  Below is the code to make the letters of the alphabet in Braille:


We also talked about how we can be helpful at home and at school.  Below are some of the ways that we brainstormed: