Students did a great job with our video response to We Are the World. Mrs. Wheeler's son, Luke, video taped the song and will post it to YouTube after some editing. We will send you a link to the video as soon as it has been posted. At next week's sign club meeting, we will practice for Thursday's show.

End of Year Performance

The sign club's final performance of the year will be on Thursday, May 27 at 1:15 in the gym. We hope to see you there! After that, there will be no more sign club meetings for the rest of the year. We hope all of the students will join us again next year.

Storyteller

Thanks so much to Char and her granddaughter, Brooklynn, for being our guest storytellers today. I'm posting a picture of the huge group of k-3 students, mesmerized by Char signing The Three Pigs and Jack and the Beanstalk. During the last few minutes of their visit, students were able to ask Char some questions. We learned that Char was born deaf and that her parents did not find out she was deaf until she was about 2 years old. Her brother had been carrying a heavy television set and needed her to move out of the way. Char, of course, did not hear him and therefore did not move. He ended up dropping the television with a loud bang, and when Char did not turn around with the sound, her parents knew that she must be deaf. A doctor confirmed it shortly thereafter. Students were extremely respectful and had fun picking out familiar signs from the stories.

Schedule for Remainder of Year

May 11: Visitor: deaf woman from the community will come to read a story to students
May 18: Video response to We Are the World
May 27: Sign Club performance for parents 1:15 in gym

Mrs. Dews was sick last week, leaving Mrs. Wheeler on her own, so we did not post out video response to We Are the World. Instead, the sign club played games. This Tuesday, May 4th, we will finally post our video response. Again, anyone who did not return a permission form to be videotaped will be our audience.