tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82979963911554439212024-03-13T01:26:18.034-07:00Too Cute SigningThis blog is to share ideas and ways to use American Sign Language in your elementary classroom and with your children at home.Too Cute Signinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00270931538350417125noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8297996391155443921.post-68493788420627607852012-12-02T11:24:00.000-08:002012-12-02T11:24:21.584-08:00<span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>Hey-- a signing Santa will be at the mall Dec. 6!</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Vowel-Consonant-Sort-with-Pre-Primer-Dolch-Sight-Words" target="_blank">Vowel Consonant Sort with Dolch Pre Primer Sight Words</a></span><br />
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<br />Too Cute Signinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00270931538350417125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8297996391155443921.post-17476960973917016782012-04-19T19:34:00.001-07:002012-04-19T19:43:36.348-07:00Classroom Management and Manners with Sign Language<span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://bestpracmanagementorganization.blogspot.com/2012/04/classroom-management-and-manners-with.html?spref=bl">Classroom Management and Manners with Sign Languag</a>e: Want some new and engaging ways to increase or change your classroom management techniques? </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Using sign language in the mainstream elementary</span> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">classroom has many benefits. It can help with management and manners for one. The students learn a new language while improving their own behaviors and self-control. You will have fewer interruptions and calling out!</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Check out this excerpt from my longer video Sign Language in the Elementary Classroom-Part 1. You can see the whole thing (and part 2) on youtube <a href="http://youtu.be/CS-6hFyXSM4" style="color: #15f252; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/CS-6hFyXSM4</a></span><div>
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<br />Too Cute Signinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00270931538350417125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8297996391155443921.post-23062665038140171592012-04-06T17:27:00.000-07:002012-04-06T17:27:12.622-07:00Sign Language in the Classroom Part 2<span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ok now I've updated the second part of this video series. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Color Word Activities-identifying, spelling the colors, fingerspelling the color,signing the color word go fish, memory</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Alphabet activities-identifying letters, sounds and corresponding words, and the signs for letters. There is also some activities that will help children become familiar with the order of the letters in the alphabet (alphabetical order)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Get the cards that go with my lessons/activities at </span><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Allison-Bouffard" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;" target="_blank">my Teachers Pay Teachers store</a><span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> These lessons go well with the activities in Sign Language in the Elementary Classroom (Part 1).</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is a part 2 that I am currently updating to a full version as well. Stay tuned!</span>Too Cute Signinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00270931538350417125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8297996391155443921.post-26184346024560619452012-03-31T19:57:00.000-07:002012-04-05T11:12:39.899-07:00Activity with the Lion and The Little Red Bird book<br />
<span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> I read this book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Lion-Little-Bird-Picture-Puffins/dp/0140558098/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1333248223&sr=1-1" target="_blank">The Lion and the Little Red Bird by Elisa Kleven</a> to my kindergarten class and they loved it! It is a beautiful story about friendship, understanding, love and respect-all without speaking the same language!! A perfect way to include sign language in your discussion!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> During the story we reviewed the color signs often. We were also able to review or learn new signs for:lion, bird, flower, nest, happy, butterfly, sun, tree, and many more. Visit this site to see how to make the signs- <a href="http://www.babysignlanguage.com/dictionary/" target="_blank">Signing Dictionary</a>. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> The book offers opportunities to review the signs several times. I would read it through once or twice and discuss the importance of the book and then on a different day would read it while using the signs!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> We then created a collage to go along with the story. I gave them a copied lion that they could color from this free clipart site <a href="http://clipart-for-free.blogspot.com/2009/11/lion-clipart.html" target="_blank">http://clipart-for-free.blogspot.com/2009/11/lion-clipart.html</a>. They drew the scenery around the lion with crayons and then used old flower/plant catalogs to design their nature picture. They had a blast!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Follow up with my color word flashcards that have asl spelling. Print 2 sets and you have a matching game or go fish game!<a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Color-Word-Flash-Cards-with-ASL-spelling" target="_blank">http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Color-Word-Flash-Cards-with-ASL-spelling</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>You can also preview a video that I made that you can purchase at mindbites.com for $0.99!!!! <a href="http://mindbites.com/lesson/13980-sign-language-in-the-classroom-part-2" target="_blank">Sign Language in the Classroom video-Part 2</a> It includes 14 mins. of ideas on how to use color words with signing in the classroom as well as some other ideas/games for using basic ASL letters. Included in that $0.99 video are the downloads for my ASL color flashcards mentioned above ($1.00) with and without color dots, AND my ASL alphabet letter cards ($1.00) <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/American-Sign-Language-Alphabet-Cards" target="_blank">ASL alphabet flashcards</a>--a bargain!!!</b></span><br />
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<br />Too Cute Signinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00270931538350417125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8297996391155443921.post-89620085954438559952012-03-31T18:49:00.002-07:002012-03-31T19:12:49.049-07:00Itsy Bitsy Spider with Sight Words and Signs<br />
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<br />Too Cute Signinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00270931538350417125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8297996391155443921.post-89940139341656881512012-03-29T07:04:00.002-07:002012-03-31T19:16:52.652-07:00Say Good-Bye to Using All Capital Letters<br />
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: blue; font-size: medium;">Use my cute craft to help kids "send off" their capital letters so that they can start using more lowercase letters in their writing! They choose random letters to send off in the balloon. Before they get hung up or sent off, you can have them point to each letter, say the name, sound and give the sign for each letter. It's a great way to review their alphabet in Kindergarten!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: blue; font-size: medium;">Just make tracers for a balloon-you can google balloon templates to find this. Cut a rectangle for the basket and some string. I used sticky foam alphabet letters for this that I found at a craft store and they just choose random letters. We then hung them from the ceiling in my classroom. Fun!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: blue; font-size: medium;">Here is a link to two of my products that will help you and your students/children learn their ASL letters- <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/American-Sign-Language-Alphabet-Cards" target="_blank">ASL Letter Cards</a> and FREE <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/American-Sign-Language-Alphabet-Chart" target="_blank">ASL alphabet chart</a></span></div>
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<br />Too Cute Signinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00270931538350417125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8297996391155443921.post-84812267157976290402012-03-27T18:47:00.000-07:002012-03-28T18:21:38.267-07:00<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Easter-or-Spring-Basket-with-Shapes" target="_blank">Easter or Spring Basket with Shapes activity</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Check out the activity I just made and did with my kindergarten class today! It is available for FREE from my Teachers Pay Teachers store. <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Easter-or-Spring-Basket-with-Shapes" target="_blank">http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Easter-or-Spring-Basket-with-Shapes</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><span style="color: #313131; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This worksheet is great for reinforcing shapes and shape names. They are to choose 10-11 shapes (I used store bought foam shapes) that will fit in the basket but they cannot use ovals. This makes the students discriminate between shapes and allows you to assess whether they know the shape names. By writing the shape names at the bottom, they are able to practice their handwriting as well as how to spell the shape words. I had my students color in the basket too! The basket clipart was free from clker.com.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #313131; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">If you are using sign language in your classroom, this is a great way to introduce or reinforce the signs for the shapes too! You can find how to sign the basic shapes at this great site </span><a href="http://www.aslpro.com/" style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" target="_blank">ASL Pro</a>Too Cute Signinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00270931538350417125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8297996391155443921.post-80831792021716352812012-03-25T19:02:00.001-07:002012-03-31T20:22:40.655-07:00Welcome<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">This is my first attempt at a blog. I have a website already where I am posting things related to baby sign language as well as signing in the classroom. Since I am trying to upload more of my activities or lessons I thought I would try this format for that. In the meantime, click on this link to see some things I have already posted there for Kindergarten and first grade.<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/toocuteforwordssigns/announcements" target="_blank">Signing in the Classroom</a></span></span><script type="text/javascript" src="//assets.pinterest.com/js/pinit.js"></script>Too Cute Signinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00270931538350417125noreply@blogger.com0