Friday, 16 May 2014

Sign Language Week (in review)

Our Sign Language guru was incredible and for a number of the poppets - 'inspiring'!


They were so attentive and responsive.
Was surprised to see SH visibly out of her comfort zone - she got used it to with about ten mins to go though :)

Cathy Gutshlag was our guru's name. She rocked!
It was in insight to see how much they participated and learnt in one hour long session.
They want her to come back!

Nile Class has a habit of making me proud when it really counts. They were polite and engaged.

More of these interactions please!

We learnt to introduce ourselves with a sign for my and name and then fingerspelling our names.
We learnt some animals and some colours and the importance of faces in sign - the sign for like and don't like are the same but the facial expression makes the difference. They all seemed to crisp this concept with little effort.

I have been incorporating sign into the week whenever I can - even if it meant introducing myself as a smelly fish!
(Drew taught us a new song about jellyfish which, quite co-incidentally) involved signs and exaggerated body movements!
Loved the silent hands sign language applause for Jason at assembly when he got a Special People's Award!

No comments:

Post a Comment