Busy Time in April



Northfield Sign Club was busy in April!

Getting signatures for the petition CC in movie theaters

 We are celebrating National Deaf Month by making a baner to honor this year. We had history blurbs about Deaf culture read during morning announcements.  To really celebrate we also had a petition signing to share with the movie theaters to help encourage Closed Captioning to be added to their venue!! The greatest news came when we were invited to share on May 16th our presentation about Closed Caption in the movie theater with Hunington

Our after school Sign Club got invited to help at Sharp Creek Elementary. We helped teach a group of students how to sign "Thank you for your service". They are preparing a skit that honors all Military Services. After they learned the signs, we got to stay and watch the skit!! It was really great!!!

Sign Club shirts are in...our winner of the design won a free shirt...they look awesome!!

Campaigning for STARSTRUCK 2011

It was a very busy day for sign club on Friday, February 18th!! We handed out 140 flowers for our Ultimate Norseman and Ultimate Lady Norse. All the students at Northfield had fun. At the Starstruck dance our nominee won the Ultimate Norseman...way to go Sign Club!!

After school Sign Club is busy at work hanging more sign language posters to help encourage signing with the whole student body. We hung some earlier this year and added more through out the year. We encourage the students who don't attend Sign Club to also feel free to learn some sign language too. This has been a very accomplishing year for both Sign Language Clubs!!

We are now campaigning for our "Ultimate Norseman" and Ultimate Norse Lady" The Sign Club is very excited to be a part of this campaign!! Our UN and UNL will be crowned on Feb. 19th at the STARSTRUCK dance!! Here's to a Happy Campaign and to Our very best "Ultimate Norseman and "Ultimate Norse Lady" You are the WINNERS in our books!!

Sign Club practiced finger spelling with signing the ABC song. Then we got a surprise, one of the students birthday was today...we sang and signed the "Happy Birthday" song!! We also made posters for the "Ultimate Norseman and Ultimate Lady Norse" during club today. We got many things done today....way to go SIGN CLUB!!

Sign Club

Northfield Spirit....we have locker ID's now and the students can't wait to put them up. There names will be in the stars and they will be laminated, in hopes to keep them nice for the rest of the school year!! GO Sign Club....show school spirit!! If you look close you will see that we included the Northfield goals of Respect, Pride, Responsibility and Peacemaker!

Exciting times in Sign Club today. We signed our letters and added our personal reasons why

we would like to have CC (Closed Caption) in the Movie Theaters, and will send them to the Department of Justice. We also nominated our Ultimate Norseman and Ultimate Lady Norseman. We designed our own Sign Club t-shirts and have spirit decore for all Sign Club members. We had a very busy 22 minutes. Go Sign Club!!

Exciting things are coming up for the Northfield Sign Language Club!! We will visit the Eagles Movie Theater, in Wabash, and give a presentation encouraging them to add CC (Closed Caption) to their menu for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.

We are going to submit letters to the Department of Justice, to help encourage the movement towards movie theater captioning and video, this will be sent to, the Disability Rights Section/ Civil Right Division.

If you are interested you can visit http://fifthe/ fredom.rog/u/1c and let your voice be heard!!

We are going to host a "Sign Night" at Northfield and invite other surrounding schools to come. We will share with them the fun and work we do as a Sign Club, at the school and encourage them to start a Sign Language Club at their school!

I am so EXCITED to be working with such an awesome group of students who are so willing to do all this work!! They have already started the committees and are actively working towards the new year goals!!

Before Christmas Break the "After School Sign Club" had a party. We had pizza, pop and snacks all while making bracelets. Sign during this fun time was a challenge and also a great learning experienced for the students!!

Working hard on the last few Picture projects before Christmas Break...this is a double exposure. Turned our beautiful, my student was so excited to see the results of her hard work!! Photography is a great class.