My journey of learning ASL is far from over, but as our course comes to an end, so does my official learning project. I chose to learn ASL in an attempt to teach my daughter more signs to be able to communicate with her more effectively. We are now at the toddler stage where she
Category: Learning Project
Let me just pull out my Pocket Sign!
This week I continued my journey on ASL apps, stumbling upon this time an app called Pocket Sign. Pocket Sign is similar to Bloom ASL in the terms that it has pre- set out lessons making it difficult to pick and choose a set of signs you want to learn. The teaching itself was a
Blooming with ASL Bloom
This week I started my ASL App Store journey and found ASL Bloom as a top recommendation. The lessons on ASL Bloom are quick and easy and include great video and questions throughout to make sure you are understanding what is being taught. I love the length of the videos and the knowledge checks throughout.
Yum! ASL food signs
I have found a lot of the topics I focus on within this learning project have a lot to do with what my daughter is doing at the time! This week I have decided to focus on ASL food signs as my daughter currently refers to every food as “apple” or “cheese” As you can
You Are My Sunshine
When putting my daughter to sleep I find I always come back to the lullaby “You are my Sunshine.” So when I decided this week I wanted to learn a song in ASL, this was the most obvious choice. This learning experience has been heavily inspired by my daughter Gracyn and so it felt only
A portal into new connections
This week for my learning project I decided to work on the basics of a conversation. These everyday words we use are arguably the most crucial to learn to start a new language, as they will be used very frequently! The start of a conversation leads to connections and can be the very beginning of
Now I Know My ABC’s
Welcome back! This week I was determined to learn the entire alphabet and enlisted the resource of an online book. The book I ended up finding is called “The American Sign Language Alphabet” by S.T. Lassal. https://fingeralphabet.org/books/asl-american-sign-language-alphabet-reference-manual/ After downloading the book I was quite underwhelmed with the content. This was the first resource I had
ABCD and Well You Know The Rest!
As we continue our ASL learning project I figured it was time to begin setting specific goals on what I wanted to learn each week. This week I decided to learn the alphabet! My goal for this week was to be able to sign the alphabet all together as well as to learn a few
Ms Rachel has entered the chat
-Ms Rachel has entered the chat For week 2 of my learning project, I decided to go with a familiar channel. Ms Rachel is well loved in our house by not only our daughter, but us parents as well! While my main focus with Ms. Rachel is usually keeping my kiddo entertained during a long
Week One of ASL
This week I began to expand my learning in American Sign Language. I knew when I began this learning project that I wanted to search for resources that I could use with my now 15-month-old daughter. This first week I decided to focus in on Baby Einstein’s YouTube channel on their videos for ASL. Baby