We had a great time in SLC today where we started by learning how to tell people how we feel. We learnt ‘happy’, ‘sad’, ‘angry’, ‘excited’ and ‘I’m fine, thank you’. The children are picking up other signs along the way but our main focuses today were the letters f, g, h, i and j and animals that began with each letter (frog, gorilla, horse, insect and jellyfish):

    

    

Remember – if you would like to know any signs for next week, write a comment and let me know!

Keep practising 🙂

The members of our Sign Language Club learnt their first signs really quickly. Look how great some of their facial expressions are! Keep up the hard work, guys!

This week in Sign Language Club, we learnt how to fingerspell the first 5 letters of the alphabet:

  
 

We also learnt 5 food signs that begin with each of these letters:

  
 
Doughnut 

We then learnt how to say whether we liked or disliked those foods!

See if you can have a go at home!

Today we had our first sign language club session at Robin Hood Academy. We learnt how to sign the first five letters of the alphabet and five foods which begin with these letters. We were able to work out what Miss Firstbrook was saying to us and asking us in sign language. We also picked up some other signs throughout the session.

(More photos to come!)

“Welcome”

I am very excited as this Tuesday is going to be our first session of Sign Language Club! This will be running in the 2CF classroom from 3:20-4:00pm and our group has 20 members – all ready to learn some signing.

I have known Deaf people most of my life and before I became a teacher, I worked for a Deaf charity. I am also qualified in Level 2 British Sign Language and can’t wait to share some things that I have learnt with the group.
Sign Language is a method of communication used by Deaf and Hard of Hearing People and is a fantastic skill for everyone to learn – you never know when you might need it!

Keep checking our blog to see what we have been up to 🙂

Miss Firstbrook