ASL 1 Summer Camp: Talk With Your Hands (Ages 11-16)

This is a one-week course, helping to introduce your child to American Sign Language. Learners will interact both with me, the instructor, as well as their fellow classmates. Each day we will review a different category of signs:

Day one: 
- Alphabet: A-Z, learn term “fingerspell” “my name” 
- Numbers: 1-10, “number”
- Mom, Dad, grandma, grandpa, sister, brother, stepmom, stepdad, family, baby, home, 
- Learn general: I/me, my, what, have, again, I love you, yes, no, I’m learning ASL. I’m learning sign language. 

Day two: 
- Review alphabet
- Review numbers 1-10, “ages”, and learn 11-20.
- Colors: Color, favorite/prefer, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, black, white, pink, brown, grey, like, don’t like
- More family signs: Girl, boy, woman, man, aunt, uncle, cousin, niece, nephew

Day three:
- Feelings: How are you? Feel, fine, ok, eh, happy, mad, sad, good, bad, awful, wonderful, depressed, excited, scared, tired
- WH: Why, where, when, who, what, which, how

Day four:
- Numbers 20-30. 
- General signs: want, don’t want, need, go, bathroom, slow, nice to meet you. Thank you, you’re welcome.
- Food signs: Breakfast, lunch, dinner, food/eat, drink, soda, tea, water, juice, milk, fruit, vegetables, meat, bread, hungry, thirsty, apple, candy

Day five:
- Review days 1-4

This course is taught by modeling from the instructor at first, and then students work to better understand newly learned signs by practicing with their fellow classmates.  

This is an introductory course to ASL: no previous experience necessary.