sign: GOLD (plus St. Patty's ASL packet giveaway!)

sign: GOLD

Yesterday was RAINBOW (here), today's sign is the goodies at the end of the RAINBOW... pot of GOLD!

Best part - comment below to possibly win a copy of the St Patty's ASL Packet (need a preview? click here!)

sign: COLOR. some toddler friendly fun this weekend

This weekend I decided Little Fingers is old enough for mini-lessons and fun activities to start learning her colors,  maintaining attention, patterns and other great skills.
We started with our COLORS. We've been talking about colors while we color or do puzzles or other things but tonight we started sorting with our COLORS. I got some great ideas from Pinterest, went to the Dollar Tree and got to work (a.k.a 'fun and play').

Now I always tell everyone, this is not the verb 'to color' - this is the noun like 'what COLOR do you want.' This is an ASL concept, which can be different in other sign languages. 

Not that I used a sign for pom poms, but now she asks to play with her 'pom poms'. Sure! Let's go play with the pom poms! 

The coolest coolest part -- when I would say/sign the colors, I could see her concentration on my hand signing. She then try to imitate. No, I'm not saying she got it right away, these signs are a little tricky but you know what. When she asks for colors snacks in the future or color crayons in the future and she pairs the sign with the spoken words, I'll understand her 100%!

I'm all ears (hehe) to hear other toddler-friendly activities you use to teach colors and sorting!

sign: YELLOW for letters X Y & Z

YELLOW was an obvious sign for me when thinking of our last letters -  X Y & Z. 

I'm teaching Little Fingers colors now .. we don't have this sign (or word) down yet but we're getting there :)

R is for RED (RED for the holidays!)

Only seemed appropriate ... R is for RED 

(Happy Holidays!)

Sometimes you will see RED as a fingerspelled R with the same movement. Depending on your location, you can see it both ways. 

P is for PLEASE and PURPLE!

P is for PURPLE and PLEASE.

We're starting to teach Little Fingers colors. It amazes me each day the new things she is picking up. She can even say PURPLE too! 

PLEASE is surely one she uses faithfully on a daily basis. Learn those manners early!! :)

PURPLE (shake a P downwards couple times)

Place a flat hand on your chest and go in a circle - PLEASE.

O is for ORANGE

O is for ORANGE - a nice fall color! 

Now ORANGE is the same for the color and the food. I always says for the sign ORANGE -pretend you are squeezing the juice out of the orange ... just at your chin!

Today's the first day of the Week of Thanks! Our first free sign language products coming your way soon!

Brown Bear Brown Bear wrapping up!

We're still working to finish this if the computer can hang in there! Gotta love technology!

More worksheets to come!

How do you use Brown Bear Brown Bear? What variations have you used? I'd love to hear!

sign: BEAR as in BEAR with me about this Brown BEAR part 3

While I've been crazy busy with preparing for the 1,000 fan giveaway... I didn't finish the project as expected. So here's another twist on Brown Bear with some great worksheets. 

 

Here are some handouts I made you can use for memory games and different match sorts. Each sheet has 4 squares with 4 different words/signs used in the book. You can mix and match, teaching the word, the sign, and/or the picture correspondence - used for any kiddo!

worksheet 1 (words)

worksheet 2 (pictures)

worksheet 3 (signs)

An added bonus - fingerspelling animal scramble (or you can right click and press 'save' here)

Enjoy!

BROWN BEAR story part 1

Today's post is compliments of Judy G. on Facebook. 
It's a 3 parter!

Now the best part! ... Here's a quick worksheet matching the color with the signs! Enjoy!

Find the worksheet here. (Please let me know if it doesn't work. Also - let me know what you think of it! Thanks!)

sign: GREEN- in honor of St. Patty's Day!

In honor of this weekend's holiday - 

we're throwing in a little GREEN!

Green! 

compliments of Sign2Me

What did you make that's green?!

sign: BUTTERFLY. Check Out our Valentine's BUTTERFLY Craft!

Compliments of Melomomma! We are going to put our own spin on this great craft idea! I'm always looking for crafts to do with my little kiddos I work with and here it one. See how I incorporate sign with this craft!!  Read the whole thing and you may find extra signs!

What MeloMomma says you will need:

compliments of Sign2Me

Toilet paper roll
red and PINK Construction paper
Glue
Tape
Scissors
Pipe Cleaner
Black Marker
Glitter

Directions: 

1.  Cut the pink paper the size to cover the toilet paper roll.

2. Cover the toilet paper roll with pink paper. (I found that glue sticks
don't necessarily work well with this!) so .. (check #3)

3. Secure it with tape!

3. Cut out a red heart for your Butterfly wings.

4. Tape it to the back of the toilet paper roll.

5. Cut out five small PINK hearts. 

6. Glue 4 onto the wings for a design. 

7. Glue one on for the face. 

8. Draw the face with a black marker.

*Decorate with glitter for more glam.

Thanks again Melo Momma. Now If you are a little more skilled in sign, perhaps you could also sign RED, CUT, and the numbers ONE and FIVE while reading the directions out loud to your children (or student).

Sign: BUTTERFLY (don't worry I didn't forget!)

compliments of Sign2Me

Enjoy!