Recently Team 17 members discovered an article in a School Journal about sign language, and because everyone was so interested we decided to learn more about it.
Below are videos of some of our students trying out their own sentences in sign language. They are saying "Hi, my name is ______. I like playing ______."
Nick
Sam
Vivek
Bernadette
Eugene and A.J
Jan and Henrica introduce themselves and sign 'sing' "We Wish You A Merry Christmas."
What do you think of our sign language, can you understand it?
What a fantastic skill to be learning Team 17! We would love to teach us how to say Hello when we skype you tomorrow :)
ReplyDeleteThese videos are fantastic. I hope you are enjoying learning sign language. Now with your videos you are teaching us too!
ReplyDeleteI highlighted your post in my Daily Digest of Education related blogs today as I thought other teachers would find it of interest. You can see it here: http://bit.ly/bRHX3G
Eugene and AJ made the signing look like a new dance! I wish I knew how to sign back, languages was never something I was too good at. Now your students can talk to each other silently when you have your back turned!
ReplyDeleteThanks for taking the time to reply on my blog. I really enjoyed watching the videos of you using sign. I work with a special school that uses makaton - a kind of basic sign language - to improve communication for autistic children who find it difficult to communicate by speaking. It makes a huge difference to how much they are able to interact.
ReplyDeleteI hope that as a class you enjoyed learning some sign and that you'll go on to learn some more. It's a valuable skill (and means you can talk without getting told off for making too much noise in the cinema ;-)
I really like the way that we all did the sign language. It was really fun learning how to do it.
ReplyDeleteWell done Team 17! Being able to use sign language (even the basics) will really come in useful. I learnt when I was a head teacher & had a class of hearing impared children in my school. I'm amazed at how quickly an expert can 'talk'!
ReplyDeleteI think that sign language was really cool, plus the videos were really good
ReplyDeletehello my name is lucy i am from super7scoopers
ReplyDeletei really liked your hip hop dance i really enjoyed it!