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Signing Time Your Way: Integrating Signing with Homeschooling

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Colleen Brunetti, M.Ed. Originally Published March 5, 2013. Updated to reflect current information. Families who homeschool their children have a wonderful opportunity to choose curriculum and activities tailored exactly to their child’s needs and interests. Let’s look at some of the ways that signing with your homeschooled child can be integrated into your day. Capitalize on your child’s learning strengths As we well know, children learn in different ways and through a variety of strengths. Sign language taps into tactile (touch), auditory, visual, and kinesthetic (movement) ways of communicating, making it highly accessible for just about any young learner. Further, …

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The Advantages of Signing in the Classroom and Homeschool

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Colleen Brunetti, M.Ed., revised by Rose Turnbow Teachers in a classroom setting and families who homeschool their children have a wonderful opportunity to choose curriculum and activities tailored exactly to children’s needs and interests. Let’s look at some of the ways that signing with your child or class can be integrated into your day. Capitalize on learning strengths Children learn in different ways and through a variety of strengths. Sign language taps into tactile (touch), auditory, visual, and kinesthetic (movement) ways of communicating. Signing appeals to many ages, making it ideal to use when you are working with more than one child. …

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Free Friday – Insect ABCs

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Happy Friday! This week’s free TreeSchoolers Activity Pack teaches ABC signs. Download the PDF guide and you’ll get an activity, sign flash cards, and song lyrics. This Activity Pack supports the concepts taught in Rachel & the TreeSchoolers Ep. 3: Incredible Insects.  Download Your Free Activity Pack This Activity Pack is a companion to Rachel & the TreeSchoolers Ep. 3: Incredible Insects Get the Incredible Insects DVD Preview Incredible Insects!

Rachel and the TreeSchoolers Activity Guides

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By Colleen Brunetti, M.Ed., C.H.C   The release of episodes two and three of Rachel & the TreeSchoolers is not too far off! We hope you are getting as excited as we are (with thanks to our amazing Kickstarter backers!)   One really unique thing about these DVDs is that, along with education-packed content, great songs, and engaging characters, you will get a downloadable Activity Guide.  Spanning approximately 50 pages, this guide is filled with activities that further the learning your child is doing with Rachel & the TreeSchoolers. Essentially, the guides double as content-rich lesson plans, perfect for preschools, …

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Sneak Preview! Activities from TreeSchoolers Episodes 2 and 3

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By Colleen Brunetti, M.Ed., C.H.C   As we head into the home stretch of the Rachel and the TreeSchoolers Kickstarter campaign, we thought you might enjoy a little sneak peek. Here are a few snippits from the Episodes 2 and 3 Activity Guides. Each Guide features detailed lesson plans and activities to reinforce the concepts taught in each episode – perfect for families and schools alike. We hope you have as much fun doing the activities as we had creating them! Episode 2: Grow Plants, Grow!   Activity: Ask an Expert! Purpose: In this episode, Rachel & the TreeSchoolers show that they can …

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Making Signing Fun for Families

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By Signing Time Instructor Colleen Brunetti In this age of increased focus on test scores, “teaching baby to read”, and some kids being put on waiting lists for preschools before they are even born, it can be easy to get swept up in the desire to give a baby the best start possible, and loose a little sight of the joy of learning and play. Enter Signing Time, and the classes you teach as a Signing Time Academy Instructor. Learning to sign is just plain fun, and you can really bring that alive with the classes you teach in your communities. The …

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Having Fun with Animal Signs

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The learning aspect of sign language has been well covered in the white paper: Signing With Babies and Children. From cognitive development to language acquisition and early literacy skills, signing offers great ways to support your baby right up through the elementary years. But what good is all that learning without some fun? We here at Signing Time believe that children should be able to wiggle and giggle their way right through learning, and that’s just what we strive to support. Three of our best videos for learning through play are  included in the Signing Time Animal Signs DVD Set: Volumes 7 – 9. In …

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Attention Early Childhood Educators!

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This month, we are running a special here at the Academy. We are inviting people who love teaching and signing to join our Signing Time Academy Instructor Team. Those who join in January will save 20% on the Instructor Kit. If you are an early childhood educator or if you own a preschool or child care center, here are a few reasons you might want to consider this opportunity: Instructor Kit includes our Preschool and Child Care Program  – a $199.99 retail value. The Signing Time Preschool Program is FULL of great resources: videos, songs, stories, activities and printables for children ages …

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January Hand-y Craft: Signing Time Story Books

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Create your own Signing Time Story Signing and reading go hand in hand. This month, you and your child can choose pictures from the PDF books below. Order the pictures, then caption them to tell a story. Color your pages and put them in a report cover to make your own Signing Time book! Read your story together at bedtime. See related article: Ready to Read, Ready to Write: How signing can boost early literacy Download directions Download Book PDF 1 Download Book PDF 2 Download other Signing Time Hand-y Crafts   Signing Time Teacher Resources Story Time DVD Early Literacy …

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