sign for LEAF PILE. ASL learning each day with each new experience! Raking the LEAVES and signing. Why not?!

I'm sure you are familiar by now but I take each moment as a moment to teach Little Fingers (and now Tiny Fingers) sign language! Last weekend we were raking leaves. So while she was jumping in the LEAF PILE I taught her the sign for LEAF PILE! Best part now is now she teaches Teeny Fingers. 

The Sign for LEAF PILE is LEAF plus PILE. ASL LEAF reminds me of the LEAF falling of the tree. The sign PILE sure looks like a pile right? What ASL signs are you learning right now?

Don't forget about our other fall signs! 

We have FALL (click here) & TREE (click here)

We almost had a lost solider in our LEAF PILE! Ironically, he looks so much like Hopkins right! 

 RESEMBLANCE MUCH!?

T words/signs during our ASL Challenge!

This week is T week... 

Ms Little Fingers has some T signs that she still signs each morning on our way to the babysitters ...

And she learned a new T sign! I was so excited! She love love loves TRAINS and she finally signed it! She can say it, which is great but for this ASL Challenge I'm trying to get her to gain a larger signing vocabulary too!  Because I'm just a curious mom ;)

I actually tried TEACHER!! Yes I know, she's not even two yet but she loves the Brown Bear Brown Bear book ... and she was reading (like she does in our rocking chair.. well the picture is Polar Bear Polar Bear, but you get it!) ... and she kept pointing to the teacher! So I said 'teacher,' she said 'teacher!' ... I didn't expect that! As the speechie - the 'ch' sound and the two syllables! wow! So I up'ed the anty! I signed it! She tried and started but didn't finish .. either way, here's TEACHER

How's your ASL Challenge going!? 

sign: Guess What It Is for What's the Sign Wednesday

Trying something a little different this week for What's the Sign Wednesday - this week you get to guess ... What's the Sign!?  Hint - the sign starts with C (because it's C week) and vaguely related to the topic that I am finally going to the beach today!! I'm sure I'll have plenty of things to talk about tomorrow.

Any guesses!?

Good luck!

sign: LIZARD for What's the Sign Wednesday

Katie from Playing with Words 365 asked for LIZARD for her post about her outside adventures. What can I say, it's just that time of year apparently no matter where you live East to West! :)

I got this picture from this weekend when we went to Garden State Discovery Museum (psst - that's where we're holding our July classes - we have classes for nearly every age! Check it out! 


Sign: LIZARD (it's a wiggle L up your arm)

 

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sign: TREE because Ms. Lil points to all the TREES

To go along with our Outdoors series, TREE was the next most appropriate sign. When we talk our walks as mentioned before, there's never a walk that's passed without Ms Little Fingers pointing to the TREES. So we now have:

• SPRING 
• FLOWERS
• OUTSIDE
• TREES
• and I'm going to throw in DOG because our walks wouldn't be the same without Reilly!

Sign: TREE

Think of you fingers as the leaves on the TREES

(sign compliments of Sign2Me)

(Sign for TREE, ASL learning every day, every experience)

sign: OUTSIDE because its that time of year

We already mentioned last week with the sign SPRING and FLOWER that we'd be talking more about OUTSIDE and things you do and see OUTSIDE. We'll be discussing tips of how to use signs and learn new vocabulary while OUTSIDE. We spend sometime daily OUTSIDE now - there's definitely lessons to be learned and words to sign while being OUTSIDE.

What activities do you do OUTSIDE?


Tip for today: Sign OUTSIDE when you say "do you want to go OUTSIDE? Let's go OUTSIDE." (When you're out there, don't say "This is OUTSIDE" - that's too lesson driven). 


While you're out there point out all the FLOWERS. This will hopefully help too when your little one is trying to help weed that they don't pick the FLOWERS like my little one. 

sign: BEACH & OCEAN for WTSW

Thank you Staci B from our Facebook page who made today's suggestion for 'Beach; .. unfortunately the sign for 'Beach' is fingerspelled ... so I'll also gave you OCEAN. For those of us who live in areas we call 'beaches' -->'shores' - that's fingerspelled too! 


But this upcoming weekend does unofficial start the celebration of summer so it's definitely appropriate! 


So we have a video for OCEAN and fingerspelled B-E-A-C-H

The sign OCEAN is quite simple - first you sign WATER and then make the natural movement of waves with both arms/hands for the sign OCEAN.

sign: FLOWER

SPRING time means FLOWERS! Little Fingers got her fingers on my FLOWERS!

I hope you can see these awesome pink sunglasses - 

they're stylin'!

She truly was helping me weed!

I just posted recently SPRING because we have some beautiful SPRING weather. So I was trying think what goes with SPRING - certainly FLOWERS. 

sign: MOON for What's the Sign Wednesday

Thanks to Julie (on Facebook) for the suggestion of MOON. I immediately think of all the books I'm reading with Little Fingers right now. 

Goes great with my next books I'm thinking about after Brown Bear Brown Bear - some of Sandra Boynton's book - The Good Night Book and others! 


So the sign MOON - Julie's right - it's in So Many books!  So here you go! The sign MOON!
Of course, there's variation - here's two of them (mine is a modified C handshape starting at the forehead and going up diagonally while the other is just a simple whole C handshape doing the same movement). 

Variation #2