Brooke Leidholt

As we move into our final weeks of this Genius Hour, I realized we have not made as much progress as we had initially thought we would. I guess we aimed a little too high for this project. Maci and I have a heck of a time remembering the signs we learn. I'm pretty sure we spend most of the time we practice relearning signs we learned in past weeks. Needless to say, our planning sheet was not much help. I have a terrible time remembering things, so I try to relate it to something to help me remember them. Some signs, like bear, are easy because the sign is similar to the word. For bear you make "claws" with you hands and scratch your shoulders. This reminds me of a bear so I remember it pretty easily. Others are not so easy. I find the words like "make", "from", "have", etc. are the hardest to remember because they don't have clues in the signs. These are often pretty similar too, so that makes it all the more difficult. I am still tryin...

This week was pretty productive for Maci and I. We teamed up with Brianna again, which is working pretty well for us. We are able to compare what all three of us know. This is especially helpful for when we forget words. With  three of us, one person usually remembers the word the other two forgot. We found a really good website last week, and we continued to use it this week. It has learning signs broken down into lessons, which is super handy because they have enough words you can make different sentences. We are all three getting much better at stringing words together, and understanding what others are saying. However, we are a long ways from fluent. We are realizing there are a ton of words and it is going to be way to much to remember in eight weeks. With that being said, Maci and I decided we would sign a song for our genius hour. We haven't decided which song yet, but we will soon. The next two weeks we will dedicate to learning the signs for the song and practicing.