Garlic Press Sign Books

In a recent box from Grandma and Grandpa my son found a couple of sign language books from Garlic Press. If you go to their homepage you can find a nice selection of ASL-based books with useful signs.

Of particular interest to us are the "Signing At Church" and "Signing At Sunday School" books. They include basic greetings which are commonly used at church as well as things like the Lord's Prayer.

I now have my eye on some of their other books including the signed songs books. My son loves to sign as he sings and has been known to make up his own signs for songs!

1st Hana House BST Graduates Play Group

Recently we had the first play group / reunion of Baby Signing Time graduates at Hana House. It was so great to see all the progress that everyone has been making!

To start out we reviewed an old, favorite song "Pets I Love" from Baby Signing Time DVD 1. Then, we learned a "new" song and the names of many colors. Here is a previous post about the song "Box of Crayons".

To tie together the pets theme with the colors we read the book "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see?" by Jr. Bill Martin and Eric Carle. We used the bilingual edition called "英語でもよめる くまさんくまさんなにみてるの?".

For some help in remembering (or learning) the color signs you can go to http://www.squidoo.com/american-sign-language-colors!

Sign of the Week

The sign of the week this week is bread!

http://www.signingtime.com/blog/2010/07/sign-of-the-week-bread/

Summer Activities Page

Are you looking for some extra fun things to do this summer?

How about some activities that can travel with you?

Check out the Signing Time blog for ideas and resources!

http://www.signingtime.com/blog/2010/07/signing-time-summer-activities/

Sign Language ABC - a Sesame Street book

I have to admit that I am addicted to books. When I hear of a really good book I'll stop at almost nothing to hunt it down. Thanks to Amazon and the used books that are sold I can get my hands on just about any book within a month. This one though nearly escaped my grasp!

As you can see it's used but a good book is worth it even if it is a little beat up!

What I love is the simple layout, familiar characters and choice of useful vocabulary that is taught.

My 2.5 yr old took to the book right away. I may need to either hunt down another copy or laminate this one!!!
Sesame Street Sign Language ABC with Linda Bove by Sesame Street
ISBN-10: 0394975162
ISBN-13: 978-0394975160
ISBN-10: 0394875168
ISBN-13: 978-0394875163

Another Little Signer

This link was shared by another Signing Time Academy instructor. She posted on her blog a video of her son's experience riding in a car with the top down. Thanks to sign language He's able to "talk" about it with his parents in the next car!

Sign of the Week

"Look at me, I'm on a ______."

Can you complete the verse from the song "Here I Go" on Baby Signing Time DVD Vol. 2?

Here's your clue: http://www.signingtime.com/blog/2010/07/sign-of-the-week-bike/

4th of July

In just a few hours it will be the 4th of July so to help those of you who celebrate...

Sign of the Week

http://www.signingtime.com/blog/2010/06/sign-of-the-week-more/
Now you can ask for more pie on the 4th of July!