Starting Summer Sign Language

I thought this Sign Language thing this summer was a good idea. No, I'm not giving up yet, but it is not starting off too well.

I started yesterday morning with a 15 minute lesson. I went over the alphabet first. Malea seemed to really like this part. It was a little difficult, but the three oldest got the idea after a couple of rounds. Then, I started to work on a song we all know. The boys were not thrilled. Malea just liked to sing. I went over it about four times then moved on to some signs we can all use with Grace. These included: milk, more, water, please, thank-you, good, bad and hungry. They all liked those and even asked later in the day for some more to use with her.

Now today was like pulling teeth to get them to sit and learn or even review yesterdays lesson for the 15 minutes. Logan said he just likes the way we talk now and doesn't want to have to learn this. I said it's not much different than the Spanish he's been learning in school. He said Spanish is easier.

I had planned on a short lesson each day Monday-Friday where I mostly teach something new at the beginning of the week and review all week long so they get it. I didn't want this to be a chore, but rather something fun we could all do together. Maybe I'll have them help me plan so they'll feel more involved instead of made to learn something.

I do hope I can get this going in the right direction, because I would like to learn too and thought it would help us all with Grace's language development.