Hello! Welcome back to another week of learning ASL. I’m not going to lie… I have been slacking a little bit with practicing my introductions from last week and have a bit of catch up to do. Fortunately, we have a whole week off next week with lots of time to practice what I have been learning! For this week, I refreshed my memory by rewatching the 20+ Basic Sign Language Phrases for Beginners. A lot of what I learned actually came back pretty quickly, which gives me hope! I think this is going to be a video I will be watching pretty regularly-it is so useful!

Source: Invest in Access

So, as I have been exploring around, I have discovered some amazing ASL GIFs! Even though this week’s topic are learning: who, what, where, when, why, and how, I just had to share the most adorable ASL sign I saw as a GIF (see below).

I mean come on… is this not the cutest sign ever???
Source: Sign with Robert

This week, my goal was to learn WH questions in sign, and I did! Below, I am going to put a very helpful info video to show where I learned how to do these signs. I found Meredith to be super helpful because she shows the signs from various angles and she also shows different variations of the same sign. She describes how some signs are older, and some just have different variations. Meredith also explains how in ASL, sometimes these question words don’t even need to be included because the facial expressions does it for you!

This was a really helpful video!
Youtube Channel: ASL Meredith

In my video below, you can see some of the progress I have made with the WH questions and even a couple example questions! I am hoping that I will be able to put some of these questions with other words to convey more meaning. At the end of the video with Meredith, she signs example questions, and I was pleasantly surprised to see that I was able to accurately guess some of the question she was signing before she revealed what the question was!

Honestly these blog posts are pretty great because I feel like they hold me accountable for keeping up with my inquiry and goals. Even though I fell a bit behind this week, I was able to learn some new content to share, and it is a constant reminder that I really do love learning ASL! While learning the WH questions, I also picked up some new vocabulary that I will try to share next time including: teacher, see you later, who is that, why are you sad, and more! Next week I am moving into some SEL, and I have a feeling that these question signs will be helpful in practicing how I can ask students how they are feeling or why they are feeling a certain way.

Thank you for stopping by! Please feel free to leave a comment, I would love to hear your thoughts!

Ms. J