An A for the day!

Today kalei and i are testing ourselves on our signing. They are pretty cool little fill in the blank and matching tests. Click here to try them out yourself.
Happy Signing :)

~Making Progress~

Today our conversation (signing) went like this:

Haylee: Hi, how are you?

Kalei: I am good, how about you?

Haylee: Do you want to go to the store today?

Kalei: Yes I do, are you going to drive?

Haylee: Yes, I will pick you up at 5:00.


Im sure a person who specializes in sign would have told us we did something wrong, or maybe if not been able to understand what we were saying because we were signing so slow, but never-the-less, we understood what eachother meant and that is progress my friends!

Sign Language pt 2 ~Simple Phrases~

Now that we have basic words and communication down, we are learning Simple phrases today. 

• " Whats your name"
• "Are you deaf"
• "Where do you work"
• "Where do you live"
• "How are you"

Kalei and I have definitely learned enough to communicate "fluently" without anyone knowing what we are talking about even though we are talking about how old are grandparents are and if we are deaf or not! There are some websites that have been a great help to us. 

http://www.lifeprint.com/asl101/index/sign-language-phrases.htm

http://www.start-american-sign-language.com/sign-language-phrases.html

We cant wait to learn enough to the point that we can actually say what we want to say not just " i like apples" and "my name is.." :) I have gone home and taught my little brothers words we have learned so we can communicate without my parents knowing!

Sign Language pt 1 ~Baby Steps~

   •Basic Communincation•

     Today we became a 9 month old baby in the eyes of sign language. We are learning the basic words such as: numbers, letters, mom, dad, hello, how are you, whats your name, how old are you, do you sign..... basic conversation starters. We both already knew the alphabet and just needed to brush up on our skills, but pretty much everything past that and the middle finger, is all new to us.

It's not that hard to find help videos and tutorials online, and thats how we are learning. Here are a few of the websites we are using to learn the basic words and small phrases

http://www.lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-signs/m/marriage.htm
http://www.lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-layout/numbersdiscussion.htm

About Us!

About Us! Kalei & Haylee

We have been BFF's since the 7th grade!!! (long time right?)
I love her more then a fat kid loves food :p She probably knows me better then I even know myself. Our favorite things to do together is watch movies, take pictures and go shoppinggggggggggg
We think alike, talk alike, (and even look alike too!)

We find intrest in alot of the same things, well pretty much everything. Thats why it only made sense to do our project together, because no matter what it is, we always will have fun doing it. We both have had intrest in sign language for awile now, and this is the perfect oppourtunity for us to explore this unusual language. We've both decided that in college for our forign language we are going to take sign language and this will give us a huge jump start. Our goal for our Genius Hour project is know know sign language enough to have a conversation with eachother and to beable to have sinple communication with deaf people who actually have mastered sign. This will help to to dip our feet into a completly new language and broaden our horizons to fill us with knowledge that you can't get by doing anything else.