The "Car Detailing" crew got help from the whole class when the Urbana Fire Truck needed washing!! What a great project for the class and we all had so much fun helping out or Volunteer Fire Department!!

"New NHS club teaches students how to sign." That was the start of an article written about the sign club. So excited to help get the word out about sign language. I have an awesome group of students that want to take part in learning another language and culture! This year the goal for the club is to reach out to students who aren't in the club and help them learn some of the basics of the language. We also want to go to the local theater in Wabash and encourage the theater to add Close Captioning to their menu of things to offer the public. We will do research and plan a meeting with the theater to present all our findings. We will take some time in the club to also learn about Deaf culture. The students are as excited as I am about the club!! Looking forward to teaching the students, and I am sure they will also teach me!!

Helpful hints for the student to preview

More helpful hints (from my camera)

Student's pictures

Still helping my student with texture, composition and balance. Here we are adding to the 2nd assignment...point of view, an old porch and people. I have found by using my digital camera set in the black and white setting for picture, I can help the student see what the picture looks like from where we are standing or sitting. You see the pictures the student took and developed and you also see the pictures that I took to help the student get a preview of what that certain picture would look like at that location. Another successful group of pictures for the given assignment.

The awesome and understanding teachers

Work hard at We Can

Making really cute purses

Making Candle Holders

Working on crafts to sell


We Can a wonderful work site

We Can is a work site where the students get to practice what it is like to have a job. When they arrive, they have to clock-in, get there work instructions and then go to the job listed first on their worksheet. They have different jobs each week so that they get to do all jobs. There is hand sewing, machine sewing, painting, sanding and beading for jewelry, just to name a few. What a great experience the students get at We Can!!

Well, the school year is well under way and it's time to start a Sign Club.

I am so excited to get this started. I had students sign up for the

club during their lunch periods. I will have a club during

SSR time for the students that can't stay after school.

I will also have an evening class too. I was very

pleased to see how many interested

students wanted to learn sign.

It's going to be another

GREAT year!!

Rocket Launched

Rocket getting ready for launch

As an interpreter, I am always looking for a visual way to help the deaf student understand vocabulary. Sometimes education in other classes will have the best opportunity's, for giving visual examples...EVER!! Here we were discussing extreme animals, that are the loudest, I needed to explain to the student that "est" means MOST, so we would sign... Most Loud instead of "loudest"...in SEE we could add the ending of the word with the added sign. The student I am working with is excited to know both ways of sign...then picks the one liked most. This sentence really has no meaning...but adding a visual, of a rocket launching, shows the power, which helps the understanding of the noise. We were lucky that the science class were working on their very own rocket launch...we got to see, on a small scale what it looks like...then using the Internet we also explored a real rocket launch. What a great visual for understanding!!