Most children probably already know and love the hokey pokey song, so I’d like to introduce to you a way to have a little more fun with it. In the cold winter months, you can’t help but to draw more attention to winter clothing and what you can do to keep warm outside. Your students will have a lot of fun singing and will be able to easily learn more vocabulary words and more about the winter season. You can introduce the idea by teaching the sign for winter, which is to shake fists and arms in front of body as if shivering. For the song, instead of using body parts, I suggest you substitute winter clothing to put in and out of the circle, such as this: You put your right mitten in,
You put your right mitten out
You put your right mitten in and
You shake it all about
You do the hokey pokey and You turn yourself around
That’s what it’s all about Continue the song and substitute “right mitten” with the following signs: Right/Left mitten – Hold out one hand and keep the opposite hand in a fist as if putting on a glove
Right/Left boot – 1) Pretend to pull a boot onto foot, 2) Make upside down B’s with hands and put together, or 3) Sign shoes – Bump fists together
Hat – Place arms/hands over head as if to put on a hat, or pat your head
Scarves – Make the motion of wrapping a scarf around neck
Coats – Pull arms/hands over shoulders as if pulling on a coat
Snow pants – Make sign for snow by trickling fingers down in front of self, and follow by the sign for pants by brushing hands up on legs
Socks – Point two pointer fingers down opposite each other Remember to have fun while singing and signing with your students. They’ll become much more engaged in the activity and learn while doing so. Stay warm! Remember, that you can find more ideas on my blog at www.babysignlanguageonline.com/blog

My name is Kim Taylor-DiLeva and I am an educational trainer and owner of Kim’s Signing Solutions. I conduct parent and teacher workshops throughout New York State and am looking to expand my outreach by offering workshops online and now offer these workshops to you via DVD. I create sign language products for classrooms and also still teach an occassional sign language enrichment program at a local preschool. I was a classroom teacher and elementary school librarian for over 10 years before finding my life passion in helping struggling children and their frustrated parents and teachers to find help through sign language.

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Many pre-school teachers are already singing “Five Little Monkeys” with their students and are hoping to make it more engaging and useful by adding sign language signs while singing. By doing so, the signs can help children better understand the meaning of the song, learn and easily remember new vocabulary words, and have fun while doing so. The following are some of the signs I suggest you use and teach to your students so they can sign along as they sing: Five – 5 fingers up
Four – 4 fingers up
Three – 3 fingers up (thumb, pointer, middle)
Two – 2 fingers up
One – 1 finger up
*For all numbers (up to 5), your palm should face towards you
Monkeys – scratch sides like monkey
Jumping – bounce 2 fingers on the palm of your other hand as if your fingers are legs jumping
Bumped head – make sign for hurt by touching pointer fingers together by head
Call – make phone shape with thumb and pinky and hold up to ear and move forward
Doctor – bend one hand a little and act like you are taking your pulse at your wrist
No – pointer and middle finger snap down to the thumb The following are the lyrics for “Five Little Monkeys:”
Five little monkeys jumping on the bed
One fell off and bumped his head
Mama called the doctor and the doctor said
No more monkeys jumping on the bed Continue the song counting down from five through one, until no monkeys remain. Remember, you can find out more information about signing with your baby on my website. I have a free video where I reveal my #1 secret on how you can drastically reduce your baby’s crying and temper tantrums which you find at www.babysignlanguageonline.com For more ideas, visit www.babysignlanguageonline.com/blog

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How Babies Communicate

Babies will start to communicate long before they know any words. They will use facial expressions such as smiling to indicate happiness, and do it again. They will cry for a number of different reasons such as hunger, dirty diaper, tiredness, or just wanting to be held. As you get to know your baby, you will quickly be able to discern which cry means what. Babies will also ‘coo’ to tell you they feel good from the first month on.

As the babies get a bit older, they will start to communicate in different ways, because they will have begun to discover their own voices. As they discover their voices, you may hear squeals, grunts, and gurggles. Again, as the parent, you will know your child well enough to know what they are communicating to you at that time.
When a baby is between six to ten months in age,this is the range where they will begin to join sounds together so you may hear them communicating to you through ‘babab’s’ or ‘dadada’s’. At the older end of this range, you will see them pointing and reaching for things. You can probably figure out what that means.

When a baby is around nine months of age, a parent can begin to teach their baby a new way of communicating and that is through sign language. They are able as young as nine months to learn and understand simple signs such as ‘eat or hungry’,'finished’, ‘please’, and ‘thank you’. As they get into their first year, you can start teaching them short phrases in sign language such as ‘eat please’, or ‘finished thank you’. Teaching babies this from a very young age is great for both the parents and the baby. The babies, still unable to use words, can tell their parents exactly what they want, and parents can understand them and their needs, thus eliminating, the stress and frustration for the baby not being able to use the words verbally needed, and the parent trying to understand what they are needing.

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