Week of October 21

Lesson Plan: Daily Living Vocabulary

Vocabulary Words & Descriptions:

1. Wake up

Sign Description: Place your dominant hand palm-down near your eyes, then flick your fingers open as if your eyes are opening.

2. Brush teeth

Sign Description: Use your index finger to mimic brushing your teeth, moving it back and forth across your mouth.

3. Shower

Sign Description: Hold your dominant hand above your head and flick your fingers downward, representing water coming down in a shower.

4. Eat breakfast

Eat: Bring your dominant hand to your mouth, mimicking the motion of putting food in your mouth.

Breakfast: After signing “eat,” follow it by signing “morning” (place your dominant hand palm up under your opposite arm's elbow, raising the opposite hand slightly as if the sun is coming up).

5. Get dressed

Sign Description: Use both hands to brush downward over your chest, as if you're adjusting your clothes.

6. Cook

- Sign Description: Hold your non-dominant hand flat like a pan and flip your dominant hand back and forth over it, as if you're flipping food in a pan.

7. Clean

Sign Description: Place your non-dominant hand palm up. With your dominant hand, wipe over it in a circular motion, like wiping a table.

8. Wash dishes

Sign Description: Hold your non-dominant hand in a cup shape, and with your dominant hand, mimic the action of scrubbing inside the cup.

9. Laundry

Sign Description: Hold both hands in loose fists and twist them in opposite directions, as if you're wringing out clothes.

10. Vacuum

Sign Description: Hold one hand as if you're gripping the handle of a vacuum and move it back and forth, like vacuuming the floor.

11. Take care of

Sign Description: Form the letter "K" with both hands. Stack your dominant hand on top of your non-dominant hand and move them forward in a small circle.

12. Watch TV

Watch: Form a fist with your non-dominant hand, and with your dominant hand, make a "V" and place it in front of your eyes, moving forward as if you're watching something.

- TV: Finger-spell the letters "T" and "V."

13. Read a book

-Read: Hold your non-dominant hand open like a book and use your dominant hand's index and middle fingers to swipe up and down, as if you're scanning pages.

Book: Put both hands together palms touching, then open them like a book.

14. Go to bed

- Go to: Point with your dominant hand's index finger and move it forward.

- Bed: Rest your dominant hand's cheek on the back of your other hand as if lying on a pillow.

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Example Sentences:

1. English: I wake up and get dressed.

- ASL Writing: WAKE-UP DRESS

- Explanation: First sign "wake up" by mimicking your eyes opening, then sign "get dressed" by brushing your hands down your chest.

2. English: After breakfast, I clean the kitchen.

- ASL Writing: BREAKFAST FINISH, CLEAN KITCHEN

- Explanation: Start by signing "breakfast" (eat + morning), then sign "finish" (flick your hands out), followed by "clean."

3. English: I watch TV after I do laundry.

-ASL Writing: LAUNDRY FINISH, WATCH TV

-Explanation: For “laundry,” twist your fists as if wringing clothes, sign “finish,” then “watch TV.”

4. English: I go to bed after I read a book.

ASL Writing: READ BOOK FINISH, GO-TO BED

-Explanation: Sign “read” with your fingers scanning a page, sign “finish,” then sign "go-to bed."

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Review of New Signs:

- Finish: Both hands palm out, fingers spread, and flick them outward.

- Kitchen: Finger-spell "K," and twist your hand side-to-side.

- Morning: Place your dominant hand palm up under your opposite arm's elbow, and raise the other arm like the sun rising.

- Go-to: Point with your dominant hand’s index finger and move it forward.