How To Teach Your Baby Sign Language
February 1, 2009 — Alenka | Posted in Sign Language. No Comments »Our original sign language article is under construction, so I just post some of the resources until we have a chance to post it back:
Web Sites for looking up signs
http://www.aslpro.com/cgi-bin/aslpro/aslpro.cgi
http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/browser.htm
http://www.lifeprint.com/
Books
I’ve used the following book: Sign With Your Baby: How to Communicate With Infants Before They Can Speak by Joseph Garcia. I can’t guarantee that this book is the best, but it worked fine for us in the beginning, and once we ran out of signs mentioned in the book, we were just using online resources for getting new signs (see our Sign Language Resources section). I was really surprised how much “non-speaking” baby can tell with signs language! Many of the signs in this book are standard in American official sign language, as opposed to baby versions. Having the communication going with a non-verbal child - is absolutely amazing!!!
DVD/Video
The most highly recommended video is Singing Time. Here are some of the recommendations:
- Thanks to Viviane, Isabelle,Christina & Michael Aziz for sharing: Christina loves those 10 to 20 minutes in front of the tv watching signing time and your baby can read dvds
- This collection of DVDs is the first one to be recommended every time the discussion on educational DVDs comes up. I haven’t bought it for my first one, but I’ll definitely consider it for my second one - I haven’t heard anything but raving reviews from everybody who used it.

Our next topic was Geography. For this topic I had to prepare lots of materials, so today I wanted to share the details about one of them: felt continent map. The wonderful idea for this map came from montessorimakers group in Yahoo - thanks to Lisa and Sarah for an inspiration!!!
After we finished Botany, we jumped right into the Zoology. I was surprised by how much we managed to cover, diving as deep as the vertebrates/invertebrates! However, we’ll cover them in more detail in the next unit.
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