Week 8

K-1
We began class by watching more of Florida School for the Deaf's version of Snow White and the 7 Dwarves. Students kept their eyes out for signs about animals in preparation for this day's lesson.

We learned the signs for Colors and Animals. Students practiced the new vocabulary by playing zookeepers who had to catch escaped animals.

basic animals
colors

2-5
We began class by watching more of Wonderstruck. Students especially liked the scene where a newly deafened boy is taught the fingerspelled alphabet by hearing boy who learned it at school. We discussed communication challenges between people with a hearing loss and people without one--difficulties of lipreading due to practice or darkness or mustaches, writing notes and trying to remember to put everything you are saying on the paper, etc. The kids are really enjoying the movie!

We then learned the signs for Colors and Animals. The school photocopier was out of paper, so I did not have enough copies of all the animals signs for everyone. I will bring those to class next week, but in the meantime they are available here.  Everyone received a copy of the Colors handout from earlier in this entry and an extra page on animals:

extra animals

The gym was busy, so we hope to do fingerspelling baseball next week!