Sign A Special Message To Mom

mother's day card, mother's day activities, mother's day crafts, sign language activities, sign language crafts, teaching sign language to children. Teaching sign language is a wonderful fine motor skill. My Y5's picked it up quickly and loved learning how to say new things.

I also taught them a few songs, and although I didn't have them learn all of the letters of the alphabet, most of them enjoyed learning how to spell their names at the beginning of the year.

For Mother's Day I thought it would be fun to design a card around this lovely language and to teach children how to spell MOM in sign language.

To sign "I love you.":

-Have your students make a fist and put their pinkie finger up to make the letter "I".
-Have them cross their arms over their chest to "say" the sign for "love".
-Have them simply point to their mom's for the word "you".
-For the card, I did the finger spelling for the letter "U".

There are many great sign language sites. I have two favorites: Favorite #one, Favorite #two. ( Click on the links to check them out.)

It's wonderful to be able to see someone demonstrate the sign, and the alphabetical listing makes things easy and quick to find words.

mother's day card, mother's day activities, mother's day crafts, sign language activities, sign language crafts, teaching sign language to children. I hope you enjoy making this card and teaching your students how to say "I love you Mom!" Check out the sites if you want to have them say "Happy Mother's Day!"