Montana's LEAD-K bill was signed into law on my birthday!
So that was a nice present for me, and for all the deaf babies in this state.
Meanwhile, one of the ASL-support projects I'm doing on is working on English literacy with a deaf 7-year-old. He's from a deaf/signing family and doesn't use any hearing devices, so he is learning English as a second language through reading and writing.
Right now we're developing a play based on the story "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" (and specifically, Motion Light Lab's storybook app of the same name) that we are going to make his family act out. There will probably be a public post of the video someday, so stay tuned for that! His 4-year-old sister has been cast as The Wolf.
We've been learning about story structure, characters, settings, and theater terms. Today's task was making a list of the props that will be needed. In our version, they boy does not CRY "wolf" (this is an ASL story! Who would hear him?)- he texts it. So we need to find 5 phones. Plus some other things.
Next we need to make a list of costumes, and figure out where to get 3 sheep.
