fictionpage Chapter 3274 Learning Braille
Chapter 3274 Learning Braille
Chapter 3274 Learning Braille
Tan Jin'er proposed inviting several students from special schools to visit Little Red Horse next week.
As soon as she finished speaking, everyone perked up and asked in unison, "Really?!"
“Really,” Tan Jin’er said with a smile. “So, besides writing letters, we also need to think about how to make our star friends have a happy day here.”
Liuliu immediately raised her hand: "I'll organize the activities! I guarantee they'll be laughing from ear to ear!"
"Don't rush to make arrangements," Xiaobai said. "We need to ask them what they want to do first."
“Yes.” Xiaomi nodded. “Just like Xiaoya said in her letter, she likes to listen to footsteps. Maybe we can design a ‘identify people by their voices’ game.”
"And there's also a riddle-solving game based on touching objects!" Dudu added.
Xi'er said excitedly, "I can teach them to sing 'Bog Big World'."
Chengcheng is already thinking about what tactile materials she can prepare.
Robin suddenly remembered something, tugged at Xiaobai's sleeve, and asked, "Auntie, Xiaozhi doesn't have hands, how does he play games?"
This question silenced everyone.
Liuli scratched her head, seriously considering this difficult problem for the first time: "Then...then let's play a game without using our hands, using our ears to listen, our noses to smell, and our feet..."
"Kick the ball with your feet?" Dudu asked.
"No, no, some kids can't see the ball." Xiaobai shook his head.
“Then…” Liu Liu’s eyes lit up, “We can play ‘hide-and-seek by sound’! One person makes a sound, and the others listen for the sound to find the person! We don’t need our hands or eyes!”
"That's great!" Xiaomi agreed.
“We can also play a ‘scent game’!” Xi’er said. “We’ll prepare different things for everyone to smell, guess what they are, and then tell a story related to them. You see, all you need is a nose!”
Dudu excitedly chimed in, "And they have boundless imagination!"
Everyone chimed in, and ideas kept popping up. What were once considered "limitations" became new rules of the game in the children's imaginations.
As the sun sets completely and Little Red Pony Academy lights up with warm lights, the plan for "Star Friends Visiting Day" is already taking shape.
After making the plan, Xiaobai did a final check on all the replies that were about to be sent out, making sure that each one had a stamp affixed and the address was written correctly.
She picked up Liuliu's letter, which only contained one sentence, gently touched the envelope, and said, "Liuliu, you wrote so simply this time."
Liu Liu, unusually, did not refute, but said seriously, "Some things are harder to explain if you write too much. One sentence is enough. He understands, I understand, you are good, I am good, that's good, very good."
Her voice grew lower and lower as she spoke, eventually becoming extremely deep and filled with melancholy.
Xiao Bai was speechless: "Can't you speak properly?! Stop using that high-pitched voice."
Liu Liu retorted, "I didn't pinch my voice; this is how my voice is."
Xiao Bai glared at her: "Your voice is normal now. You're a young girl, not a man in his thirties."
Liu Liu laughed heartily, wagging her tail and saying, "Little White, I was just teasing you, haha~"
"Take this kick!"
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The following afternoon, a rare scene unfolded in the Little Red Horse Academy's reading room. Robin, who usually chased after Liu Liu like a madman, was quietly sitting at a small table in the corner, an open book of "Complete Guide to Early Childhood Literacy" in front of him. His little brows were furrowed, and his chubby fingers were pointing at each word one by one, muttering to himself: "Big...small...many...few...flower...flowers that bloom..."
Xiao Bai passed by and exclaimed in surprise, "Robin, why are you studying so hard?"
It's rare to see a child who isn't playing, but studying.
Robin looked up, his little face full of seriousness: "Auntie, I want to write back to Xiaoya, and I want to write lots and lots of words. But... but I don't recognize many of the words, so I can't write them down."
She poked at the book a little dejectedly. "Xiaoya said my footsteps sound like a little rabbit. I want to tell her that I also think her voice sounds like...like a bird singing, but how do you write the character for 'singing'? And how do you write the character for 'song'?"
Xiao Bai sat down next to her, picked up the book and looked at it.
She recalled her clumsiness when she first learned to write, and also the simple joy in Xiaoya's letter.
“If you don’t know how, you can learn,” Xiaobai patted Robin’s head gently. “I’ll teach you how to write the character for ‘sing’ like this…”
After listening to his aunt teach him to write a few words, Robin couldn't help but exclaim, "Auntie, how do you know so many words? You're amazing! When will I be as good as you?"
Her eyes sparkled, filled with hope and admiration for her aunt.
Xiao Bai laughed and said, "You're still too young. You're only in kindergarten. As you grow up, you'll learn a lot of words from books and school. You'll naturally know them then. Don't worry, just work a little harder and you'll be as amazing as your aunt."
Robin was greatly encouraged and nodded firmly: "Yes! Auntie, I will work even harder and regard you as my idol."
Xiao Bai waved his hand, saying insincerely, "Don't idolize me. I'm not an idol, I'm a talent."
Robin laughed along with his aunt and said, "I want to be a talent-driven artist, not an idol! Only Liu Liu would like an idol."
Xiao Bai's expression changed and she said, "What are you thinking! How could Liu Liu possibly be an idol!"
Robin immediately changed his tune, saying that Liu Liu was a talented person who left.
Xiao Bai shook her head and said, "She didn't leave because she was a powerhouse."
Robin asked what style Liuliu was going to.
Xiao Bai thought for a moment and said, "She's going for the egg yolk pie!"
After saying that, he burst into laughter. Robin was stunned for a moment, then realized what he meant and joined in with a loud laugh, laughing so hard he was bent over and slapping the table with both hands.
Robin seems to have made a firm decision this time, and it wasn't just a momentary impulse that led him to learn to read.
She not only studied diligently during the day, but also continued to learn characters in the evening.
Her aunt set up a study plan for her, requiring her to learn 10 Chinese characters every day without being impatient or lazy. Her aunt would supervise and guide her.
When Liuliu arrived at Little Red Horse Academy in the evening, she happened to see Robin sitting next to Old Li in the yard, learning to read.
She had originally wanted to ask Robin to go out and play, but seeing Robin's unprecedentedly serious expression, she swallowed the words she was about to say.
She pouted and muttered, "Is writing a character that hard? Watch me!"
She moved closer to Robin's other side, craning her neck to look. "Oh, this character? I know it! It's just 'mouth' with 'chang' added on top! Robin, you're so stupid!"
Robin retorted with a stern face, "You're the stupid one! Last time you wrote 'rest' as 'physical rest'!"
"I was just going easy on it! I gave it a little extra!"
Liu Liu argued illogically, glancing at Robin's crookedly written word "sing" on the paper. Just as she was about to continue mocking him, Xiao Bai appeared and retorted, "Liu Liu, how dare you compare yourself to Robin? She's still in kindergarten, and you're in third grade. How can you be so shameless?"
Liu Liu knew she was in the wrong, but she refused to admit defeat and said, "I could write compositions when I was in kindergarten, and I even won an award."
Just then, Xiaomi walked in carrying a thick book, a smile on her face.
"Xiaobai, Liuliu, Robin, you're all here! Perfect, I have an idea!"
"What are your thoughts?" Xiaobai asked.
Xiao Mi placed the book she was carrying on the table, and everyone gathered around. It was an introductory textbook for the "National Standard Braille Scheme".
“I was thinking,” Xiaomi said, “that if we knew a little Braille and sign language, would we be able to understand our friends from the stars better next time they come, or when we write letters to them or play with them, and would they understand us better too? Just like Dudu can read in Braille and speak in sign language.”
Xiao Bai's eyes lit up: "That's right! We can learn! Even if it's just a few greetings or simple words."
Looking at the dense array of bumps, Liuliu felt overwhelmed: "How am I supposed to learn this? It looks even harder than Robin's literacy book!"
Xiaomi was full of confidence: "Don't worry! We can ask Dudu to teach us! And Chengcheng knows how too, so we can ask Chengcheng to teach us as well. We'll start with the simplest things, like our own names, and words like 'hello,' 'thank you,' and 'friend.'"
Robin immediately said proudly, "I can write the word 'friend' now. I learned it this morning from my aunt."
Xiaomi praised her for being really good, and then continued to discuss learning Braille with Xiaobai and Liuliu. Everyone had a strong desire to learn Braille. After Xier, Chengcheng, and Dudu arrived, they sat down together to discuss and decide that starting today, they would all learn Braille together, supervise each other, encourage each other, and make progress together.
Xiao Bai glanced at her little niece, who was sitting silently to the side, and said, "Robin, you should learn too."