Nerd Alert! Nerd Alter!

So I'm supposed to be practicing my signing but just couldn't get motivated. Until I got a brilliant idea. I decided to make sentences using all 600+ words we learned and practice that way. I would instill the words and get better at signing sentences which is not easy. You have to raise your eyebrows at a certain point and then at another point you have to do a head shake or a lean and squint. The head shake indicates a positive or negative to the verb or predicate. The lean and squint makes th e sentence a question.

Anyway, thank goodness I'm a nerd and made study cards. I scanned in the pages and printed them. Then I cut the signs out and wrote what it means on the back. Joe helped me do this last semester. I tried to lay them all out when I got my idea and this is what it looked like. It was easy in the beginning even though I couldn't see all cards. I did 100 sentences the first day.

Because of dinner (the lasagna for our friends) I had to pick them all up but tried to do it in an organized manner so it would be easier to get started again. After they left and I cleaned up the kitchen I got back to work and it looked like this.

Now it is set up on the dining room table and I am down to less than 100 signs to put into sentences. I have 158 total. I'm trying to use more than just two signs per sentence which can be challenging. I'm also starting to use people signs more in lieu of just him/her or I/me to help with instilling those. So, instead of 'a watch he gave me' its 'a watch my brother gave me.' To add to the nerdiness I stapled together the signs for each sentence, except for repeat signs of course, and numbered them and put them in a box in order. So, when I am practicing my sentences I can quickly check the box for one I can't remember. Genius, I know.

This is the tail end of the project. Now I have to start practicing. Tomorrow Joe and I are taking a ride to Austin Nevada and stopping by a ghost town on the way. I'll bring my notebook and practice while he drives. That is, if I can take my eyes off the scenery.