You might want to check with 4-H. You don't have to be a member to get a Project Book. Here in Ohio, they run about $5 each, and really have a LOT in them! One of the girls in my kids' group is doing drama now; she helped the younger kids put together a little skit for Projects Day as part of it. 4-H has projects on almost ANY subject!
We actually joined 4-h a few years ago, our chapter here is lame. They did not really do things like you would expect but one child took the crafts and one had small animal group, she had to give a report on her turtle, he had to enter some really baby style crafts at a fair . macaroni art??? Course he got a third place for his drawing sketch he did for me, we put that in on the side and its not one he did in 4 h, so they lost points wiht me. Hubby has some unit studies here he wants her to do , so we may use them but I am also looking at typing for correctness and skill , and spanish at this point. Dd says the one daddy had was not going to work for her. So I will go to Staples and look again at the ones they have, they are probably boring but there has to be a way to teach it to her... other wise she gets to learn American Sign language, and french, conversational style cause I have books for those already!
It is not possible to learn ASL from a book! If you are going to learn it, be sure you have a course that teaches GRAMMAR as well as vocabulary. You would never take a French class that was simply vocabulary, and try to use proper English grammer with them; it wouldn't work. And it CANNOT work for ASL. I posted a site on here for a good on-line ASL dictionary.
with french, I have the workbook I used in Highschool French class, well it was tenth grade level, but that was conversational french, I also have the records I used back then cause we had to buy them from the library, but my mom has those hehe
Oh, I do have friends who sign, so I could get her to learn with them would that work better? Sorry three posts in a row, I am thinking after I send it lol !
TMom, You can go back to change or add things into the same post by clicking on the edit button at the bottom of messages that you write. We had a lady from our church come once a week for 8 weeks to teach our kids sign language. It works much better and you get the motions better that way... It was much more motivational for the kids having her do it also! Besides when they listened and did well, she'd give'em m&m's at the end of class! She also taught them the colors using the m&m's. If they signed that color correctly, they got to eat the m&m. That's pretty motivational for kids!
YES!!! Use a REAL PERSON if possible!!! You need to keep in mind that ASL is a language that really has no written form. And, because the signs move, you cannot adequetly show "pictures". I also differentiate between ASL and manual forms of Enslish. Most people, when they say "Sign Language", don't understand the difference.
When I lived in Canada I went to school at a school that had a deaf class across the hall from us. Our two classes joined for a lot of things ( grade school) so for two years of being there we had a lot of chances to learn to converse thats where I got the fun of learning to sign. I would like my kids to be able to speak to an unhearing person enough to make them both feel at ease, I am not planning to have them master it, just get enough of it to converse a bit. how long can you wait Deena before adding to the post?
As soon as you hit the post button and your message comes up, you'll see the underlined word "edit" on the bottom right-hand side along with reply w/ quote, etc. You just click on the edit word and it will take you back into your message. I do that off and on when I spell words wrong or forgot to say something I meant to say. If you edit it before anyone else reads it, then it won't have a little message that says "Last edited by..." Once someone reads your message, if you edit it, it will have that message. Not that it matters, just thought I'd point that out. You are the only one that can edit your own messages. I have edit for message I write, and you have them for what you write. I can go back to a message I wrote 6 months ago and edit it as far as I know. I never have, so I don't know that for sure though.
I know Brenda went back and edited some of the posts she wrote a long time back, when she first started having trouble at work. Has anyone heard from her recently, BTW? I sure hope things settle down for her soon!
Jackie: the last I heard from her she was having trouble with her computer and didn't know when she would get it up again. I know she was having to go to the library to use theres.
That was the last I heard, too! And sending her a PM or e-mail won't help if she can't get on line to read them!
okay I tried the fixing spelling thing, I had left a space and went back to change it, but was 'save' the one I was suposed to click? I think so but not sure ... OH! I got my ds 9 on Sunday a guitar for his birthday it is small enough for him and has a lesson on how to play included! It was on clearance for only 15 dollars! if you knew me you would know that that is a lot for me to spend on my kids for one gift, but its actually three times less than I first saw it!
That's a great price TMom! I bet he'll love it! Oh yeah, I forgot that part! Sorry! Yes, save is what you push once you've done the changes you want. Then it should be right back to the regular message. If you forgot something, then just click on the edit again, and do the same thing.
I am sure he will love it, since his big brother is learning to play the adult size guitar and he keeps wanting to play it, and I know he is musically inclined this way he has his own.. who knows maybe they can learn some songs to play around the camp fire and in church at Get Real Bible study nights...
Wouldn't that be awsome?! My dd is excited, because she is going to be able to take voice lessons this year! She's wanted to do that for awhile, but I couldn't find anyone around this area that would teach a younger child. Well, either that or they were cost prohibitive! Last year my ds-15, who is VERY musically talented (but only wants to play piano), played for dd's adjudication. That was so cool to see my children using their talents like that! My dd sings for church and my oldest plays piano for church. My middle ds is not musically inclined, really (takes after my dh's side), but he's taking cello and played a special music for church once! It was great! I also found some music for "Amazing Grace" that had 3 parts: piano, violin and cello, so I HAD to get it! Even though my dd won't be taking violin lessons this year (since she's taking voice and piano), they're still going to practice that song and play it for church sometime! WooHoo! :lol: Okay, I got off on a tangent. Sorry!
Cool! My dd has been singing in church choir ( all three have been in past as they made me the kids choir person) younger one was a bit uh, fun? in some of them because he really enjoyed it and so they stopped having me do anything with the kids choir because of him I am sure. He likes to have fun and at one point I grabbed him and walked off stage and out the door in a huff, Lol, that was a bad year cause the director/music minister gave me such a hard time about him. I won't do one with out my little guy though cause its not fair to him. Plus after watching the video yesterday of that play , uh several years ago, I understand why so many people came up to me and said he was the highlight of the show and each year they ask if Johnny is in it! He looked natural in his antics, like it was part of the play, after all he was playing a little boy at the well, had no speaking part just playing around the well, and he did! but dd has the drive to sing, she is aaaaaaaaaaaaaaalways singing, I was wondering if they did voice lessons around here, and was going to check at open house for my older son if his school has any connections... she wants to sing for her ministry... so? Older son, he liked singing till his voice changed, then he started christian hip hop/rap and does okay but does not fit the part in his movements he is too stiff hehe. I am hoping guitar will work for him as he wants to take music in school this year and that means playign an instrument there. Cost has played the key roll in my kids not takeing piano lessons, dd taught herself, ds can play music that sounds like he knows what he is doing but has no clue! Lol thats little ds, I think older son can too but have not heard him in a while... Little Johnny showed us he could sing when he sand "proud to be an american" several years back by heart just from hearing it on radio! So we have a copy of it for him now, hehe, he sings it for us each summer. Okay I am rambling on in music hahah a
