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In this video, I will teach you a sign that will help you teach students the concept of now and then. Today you will learn the sign for LATER.
In this article on my website, you can find lots of ideas on how to help young children understand the concept of time passing, so they eventually understand the concept of “later on”.
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In this post, I will teach you a Lámh sign you can use daily, the Lámh sign for MORNING.
And here there are links to 3 of my favourite morning songs to use in circle time.
Good morning song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpWGPOtSllM
Gilly Gilly Good Morning
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It's Christmas time again and all the children are so excited about it.
Again in 2021, it´s not possible to have the usual Christmas concerts and plays, but many schools are having a special day and fun events in the classroom to keep the Christmas magic alive for our little ones. Thank you for that, as I see my children coming home from school...
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In this video, I am teaching you a sign you can use when talking to your students about the presents they want from Santa; the sign for TOYS.
I love helping my students write their letters to Santa. Most of my students cannot write yet; they are all very young, so we find pictures in magazines and catalogues, cut them, and stick them on a Santa´s...
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In this video, I will teach you the sign for RAIN.
As we are getting into the winter, we will be using more signs to talk with the children about the weather, how cold it is, and how we must wrap up before going outside.
You can also watch the following video to learn the signs for sun, snow, clouds and wind. You can even sing the Weather Song with me at...
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Lámh Sign For COLOUR
In this video, I will show you the sign for colour.
Children with developmental delays often need more time and practice to learn new skills. The same might happen when we teach them about colours.
I often see parents and teachers asking children, “what is that colour?” and kids shrugging their shoulders as they are...
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In this video, I will show you the sign for TO COUNT. You can use this sign during your counting activities. You can count the “two blackbirds” and certainly use the rhyme “one finger counts” for teaching counting up to 5 in my video, Songs For Fine Motor Skills. Here is the link: https://youtu.be/NyS5r8upxuQ
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I will teach you a sign you can use during playtime, it´s the sign for TO BUILD.
Building blocks is an activity I do with my students all the time.
This activity helps children develop hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills. But building blocks can also be used to work on social skills too.
I start by gently teaching turn-taking to children who...
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You can use the sign for OUT while playing with toys such as taking blocks OUT of a box, or pieces OUT of inset puzzles. But also to indicate you are going OUT to the garden or getting OUT of the car.
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I introduce this sign with my preschoolers when we are doing matching activities. Matching the SAME pictures, finding the SAME colour, the SAME shape, and even when I am teaching reading I ask my student to match words and letters that are the SAME.
Enjoy lots of matching games this week using the sign for the SAME.
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Autumn is here, and with it, Halloween! Woo woo! In this video, I will show you the Lámh sign for Halloween.
In this video, I will show you the Lámh sign for Halloween.
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This sign has two variations, depending on what are you cutting with, a knife or scissors. Look at the video for a demonstration of the two variations of the sign for CUT or TO CUT.
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In this video, we have the sign for AUTUMN.
Autumn is here and we are getting ready for lovely Autumn theme crafts in the classroom. For many young children with special needs, the concept of the seasons is difficult to grasp. Using a sign and a picture with the word will help them understand that concept.
Using tangible things they can associate with...
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GAME is a slightly different sign than the ones I have taught you so far because is a two-part sign. A two part-sign means that it's a combination of two gestures that make the sign.
First, sign "play" and then change both hands to L handshape with your palms facing your body and fingers facing down and flick both hands out from in front of your body.
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In this video, you will learn the Lámh sign for HELLO.
I am very excited to introduce the first Sign Of The Week for this school year, the sign for HELLO.
I have had the pleasure of working with many teachers and SNAs that will be working with children using Lámh in Junior Infants, or in their first year of preschool.
Many of these children...
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In this video, you will learn the sign for HOLIDAY. I know, the glorious sunshine that we have enjoyed over the past week or so is gone and it’s chilly outside today, but this Friday, school is officially out for the summer holidays so let’s get ready to enjoy the outdoors as soon as the sun comes out again.
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We are coming to the end of the school year, many preschools and schools have a fun sports day. Are you doing this with your class too?
It is a great way to celebrate the good weather and the start of the school holidays. So today, you will learn a sign that you will surely need for this. The sign for SPORTS.
The sign of the week, starting on Monday the...
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Today you will learn the sign for SUMMER. I know, I know, it's quite chilly outside for May. But we are officially in the sunny season, so let's get ready to enjoy the outdoors as soon as the sun comes out :-)
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This video will teach you a sign you can use while playing fun games with all children in the class. It is the sign for QUICK.
Quick/fast and slow are some of the opposite words I teach to my students. I initially used pictures to teach these, but I quickly realised that it didn’t make too much sense for my students to learn these concepts from...
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This is a sign you can use every day during circle time or assembly.
Once children are 3-4 years of age, most preschool teachers introduce the days of the week. At that age, most preschoolers don’t fully understand the concept of time, but it’s ok to start talking about the days of the week and what day is today during circle time.
Children...
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One of our generation’s values to pass on to our children is the love for our planet.
I know this is a topic all schools work on by building habits like disposing of waste in bins.
Children can also learn to recycle by repurposing items instead of throwing them away. Making a robot with cardboard boxes and making a bowling set from plastic bottles can...
