We had our first "official" meeting last week, and I used to to focus on Fanny Crosby.
First I told them about Fanny (you can use what AHG provides or compile your own information). They were fascinated about the fact that the pretend doctor made her blind.
Then I put a blindfold on them and they took turns trying to find me in the room. I made it even more tricky because i would move or hide behind things! They giggled and giggled and said that it was HARD! If we had more time, I would have given them a chance to write blindfolded too!
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Next, I showed them a small hymnal that I had marked every one of Fanny's hymns. They were amazed at how many she wrote. And just in my little hymnal, there were more than 20! She wrote over 9,000! I sang a couple to them, and, not surprisingly, they didn't know them! But their mamas recognized them! We need to work on that!
Then I asked them how she did it. Could she read and write? YES! And we did our own braille project that I found from this site. I gave the girls self-adhesive rhinestones and pre-marked with yellow dots the places where they needed to put their "braille" dots to spell their name. They thought this was really cool!
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Lastly, I gave them a sheet of paper with 3 of Fanny's hymns on it to fold and make their own little Fanny Crosby hymnal. (For copyright reasons I cannot post the actual document, but i can show you the set up in the picture below (top 2 hymns upside-down and the bottom two pics right side up - on a 8.5"x11" sheet, .5" margins, 2 columns). They will put it in the pocket of their Pathfinder paper bag book next week.
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We had a little time left, so I had them put the little ovals about Fanny's life (from my previous post) in order and we stapled them together. We will put the bags together next meeting, so all they'll have to do is glue or put these pieces in their proper place.
First I told them about Fanny (you can use what AHG provides or compile your own information). They were fascinated about the fact that the pretend doctor made her blind.
Then I put a blindfold on them and they took turns trying to find me in the room. I made it even more tricky because i would move or hide behind things! They giggled and giggled and said that it was HARD! If we had more time, I would have given them a chance to write blindfolded too!
Next, I showed them a small hymnal that I had marked every one of Fanny's hymns. They were amazed at how many she wrote. And just in my little hymnal, there were more than 20! She wrote over 9,000! I sang a couple to them, and, not surprisingly, they didn't know them! But their mamas recognized them! We need to work on that!
Then I asked them how she did it. Could she read and write? YES! And we did our own braille project that I found from this site. I gave the girls self-adhesive rhinestones and pre-marked with yellow dots the places where they needed to put their "braille" dots to spell their name. They thought this was really cool!
We had a little time left, so I had them put the little ovals about Fanny's life (from my previous post) in order and we stapled them together. We will put the bags together next meeting, so all they'll have to do is glue or put these pieces in their proper place.