Learn Medical and Health Signs

Here's a great freebie from Baby Signs Inc to help you get ready for the cold and flu season by teaching your baby or toddler signs so they can:

tell you if they're feeling (HOT, COLD, SICK)

tell you where they're feeling pain (HURT) Sign the hurt sign where it hurts!

know what to expect during a visit to the doctor (HELP, DOCTOR, MEDICINE)

understand when the pain will end when getting an immunization (ALL DONE)

communicate about health-promoting activities (WASH)

Click on the words to see the signs. Remember to always say the word when you sign it!

Here's the Medical and Health Signs Poster you can download and print out.

Get lots of sleep, wash your hands, and stay well so you can come and see me at the La Quinta Library when we come back from our summer break Saturday September 26th at 10:30 am!

End of Summer Sale

20% off Baby Signs Products!


To celebrate the end of summer, Lorraine and I are holding a 20% off sale! Baby Signs offers a full line of books and DVD's to help you in your signing venture. Go to the Baby Signs Products page and choose what items you would like to order. Then email Lorraine@DesertBabySigns.com or call her at 760 567-7809 and let her know what you would like to order. 20% off one order (as many items as you like) per household from now until September 30th.

Learn Classroom Signs

Here's a great video from Signing Times for learning the following signs: line up, pay attention, quiet, sit, go, stop, yes, and no. Great for teachers and parents! Signs for giving directions are good for communicating with your children or students in church or assemblies where quiet is needed, and you can also communicate over a distance or in a noisy environment. Communication is much more than just speech!

Summer Signs Poster

Here's a FREE poster with signs for summer from Dr Linda Acredolo and Dr. Susan Goodwyn, Founders of Baby Signs, Inc. You can download, print and even share it with others! Of course, OUTSIDE isn't really one I want to do much here in the desert right now, except at night after the sun goes down!

Just a reminder, Lorraine and I are on vacation from Baby Play and Sign Saturday mornings for the month of August, but we will try to keep posting and sending you little things like this to keep you going while we're gone.

Happy Signing!

We're in the News!

The Desert Sun came to visit our class last Saturday! Click here for link to story in the newspaper today and watch video.

What a cute bunch of kids!

Let's Sign and Say "FIve Little Monkeys"

Hi! Beebo here. I love doing fingerplays and poems, and using signs with them makes it even better! It's also a great way to teach signs to our little ones. Click on the capitalized words in the Five Little Monkeys poem for the sign. Remember, you don't have to do all of the signs, sometimes less is more! You might want to just do the sign for monkey and head and phone call at first.

FIVE LITTLE MONKEYS JUMPING on the BED.
ONE FELL off and bumped (HIT) (HURT) his HEAD.
MAMA called (PHONE) the DOCTOR and the DOCTOR SAID
NO MORE MONKEYS JUMPING on the BED.

Happy Signing!

Complete Starter Kit

I wanted to show you this Baby Signs Complete Starter Kit video so you can see what's in it.

It has everything parents and their babies need for a successful start to signing! The kit contains:

• Parent Guide to the Baby Signs® Program - an illustrated step-by-step guide for parents and caregivers. 5.5" x 8.5" perfect bound soft cover, 80 pages.
  


• Parent DVD with an introduction to the Baby Signs® Program. Also includes Video Dictionary with real-life demonstrations of the 100 signs that are most useful to babies.
  


• My Favorite Signs DVD for babies introduces 6 fun signs through animation, puppets and delightful signing babies.
  


• Signs at a Glance Flipper that features 86 signs in a unique flip-card reference with magnetic backing.
  


• Baby Signs® Board Books Each 14-page 4" x 4" book shows 6 signs and a review page that encourages more interaction: My Mealtime Signs, My Bedtime Signs, My Bath Time Signs, and My Pets Signs.

Click here to find this kit and other great signing products at the official Baby Signs store.