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Post by The Occasional Freighnos on Sept 3, 2015 8:51:18 GMT 9
Hello my fellow CIRs
In two weeks, I will be making a very special school visit. It's a school for blind children, . I'll be visiting the elementary school, and I'll be having a 50-minute long 交流 time with the kids. The school has asked me to prepare some games that incorporate English.
My question is, what kind of games can I do considering that the kids are blind? I can't do any of the regular games like duck duck goose or musical chairs or red light, green light. Something musical is probably best so I'll be taking my guitar, but I don't know what I'll be doing for 50 whole minutes. The school says they can prepare any materials that I need. Does anyone have any experience/suggestions?
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Post by sorafi on Sept 3, 2015 11:45:14 GMT 9
Oh wow, this is tough. I had a 特別支援学校 but I don't think there were any blind children...
Simon Says might be an idea, as you say actions that they must do? Gives a chance to teach English action words and for them to act on it..
Do you have a chance to chat to a teacher from their school and ask what kind of Japanese games they do? Because you might be able to adapt a couple of those.
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Post by Researcher Irish on Sept 3, 2015 11:47:26 GMT 9
20 Questions or the variant hot seat would be fine right?
HOt seat just singles out one person who doesnt know the word but everyone else does. The kid who doesnt know the word has to ask questions to everyone else to figure it out.
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Post by The Occasional Freighnos on Sept 3, 2015 11:54:40 GMT 9
Simon Says is a good one! Definitely going to be doing that one. And I'll ask the teachers today to see if they have any ideas.
Hot Seat is fun and we did it in China all the time. I'm just wondering how we let all the other kids know what the word is. Maybe we could have the kid in the hot seat leave the room and then I tell all the other kids, then bring her back in.
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Post by Jess on Sept 16, 2015 16:58:42 GMT 9
What about teaching a song?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2015 11:35:30 GMT 9
Hello my fellow CIRs In two weeks, I will be making a very special school visit. It's a school for blind children, . I'll be visiting the elementary school, and I'll be having a 50-minute long 交流 time with the kids. The school has asked me to prepare some games that incorporate English. My question is, what kind of games can I do considering that the kids are blind? I can't do any of the regular games like duck duck goose or musical chairs or red light, green light. Something musical is probably best so I'll be taking my guitar, but I don't know what I'll be doing for 50 whole minutes. The school says they can prepare any materials that I need. Does anyone have any experience/suggestions? what kind of games did you end up playing? it might be useful for people in the future!  |
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Post by The Occasional Freighnos on Sept 18, 2015 11:41:37 GMT 9
Sure thing!
In the end, the teacher ended up planning most of it. For the first 15 minutes we played with a big globe that had elevated landmasses so the kids could find where Okinawa and Florida were in relation to each other. Then we played Simon Says. The kids had done this game before with the ALT who visits once a week, so they were familiar with basic English commands.
After that, I taught them how to do the "stomp-stomp clap!" and sang "We Will Rock You." That one was my idea. Then the teacher pulled out a giant sheet and had all the kids grab it along the edge, and we spent a few minutes waving it up and down to the tune of a song from her CD player. Finally I played a couple of songs on my guitar.
The biggest takeaway for me was how well the kids responded to anything rhythmic or musical.
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