ASL Game Time! (Ages 13-18)

Are you competitive and seeking to incorporate your love for game into your ASL learning journey? If so, you've come to the right place. In this class we will play ASL games nearly all class period, often taking only fifteen minutes during the beginning to learn a few signs and rules pertaining to the game. Look forward to friendly competitions and team building games and exercises to grow your communicative skills in ASL. PLEASE NOTE that students will need to know at least the fingerspelled alphabet to partake, as this is a reoccurring class where each session is not contingent upon the next, but the main skill of fingerspelling is necessary and likely to be included in every class. The games we play will depend on the various levels of students attending the session, but no matter your skill level, as long as you know the fingerspelled alphabet from A - Z, you will be able to participate. 

Each session will be centered around learning or practicing using signs from one or more of the following topics:
- Fingerspelling
- Numbers
- Basic Greeting Signs
- Basic Family Signs
- Basic Food Signs
- Basic Color Signs
- Basic Animal Signs
- Basic Emotional/Feeling signs (eg. Happy, Sad, etc...)
- Basic Signs pertaining to Hobbies & Interests
- Basic School and Classroom Signs
- Basic Sport Signs


Below is a description of how each weekly session will go.


Week of April 11th -- Our theme will be the foods. 

We will spend up to the first fifteen minutes of class learning or reviewing the fruits and vegetables in ASL with Kahoot. We will then play four on a couch.
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Week of April 18th - Our theme will be the alphabet. 
We will spend up to the first fifteen minutes of class reviewing the alphabet and learning one or two corresponding signs to accompany each letter sign. We will play a game in which students take turns trying to make each other fingerspell an answer using the "forbidden letter" or handshape. 
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Week of April 25th -- Our theme will be ASL fingerspelling. 
We will spend up to the first ten minutes learning or reviewing the alphabet signs with Kahoot. Then we'll play a competitive finger seek, which is an ASL-style word search.

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Week of May 2nd -- Our theme will be ASL Numbers.
We'll take the first 10 minutes to review numbers through Kahoot. We'll attempt to sign through the numbers to a very fast paced counting sound and see how high we get. We'll end by playing "Clap and Snap the 7's," a fun counting game that deals with math, speed, and coordination.

In future weeks, we'll get into foods, colors, animals, and hobbies.