Sign Santa Project Research Paper

My experience with the Signing Santa project is an experience I will never forget. At first, I was not sure if I wanted to do it or if I could even do it. Especially hearing about this assignment in the first week of school. I was not sure if I would be able to communicate with anyone who was deaf because I knew little to no American Sign Language. But I am very proud to say my group’s station was one of the most or even the most popular station. Our group was assigned to be a craft station. So, we decided for our station we would do “Santa’s Magic Slime”. The station was DIY, do it yourself, slime by just using glue, baking soda, and saline solution. At first, I was a bit hesitant because I thought how would we even do it with little kids because this was more than just a simple craft. This was going to be messy and hard to make it run smoothly when the children would come in random groups in number. But we were able to overcome this

We, of course, had sheets with the steps to make the slime to help us remember and that also helped the kids and the adults to follow along. To sign the steps on how to make it was simply just gestures in showing which cup would go first to pour or signed pour the glue. Then we asked which color do you want: red, green, blue or yellow. Told them to mix it. Then second add the baking soda and mix. Last, add the last cup that had the saline solution to mix. It was very simple. We were packed the whole time. We almost ran out of materials. Communication during this time was not hard. But communicating when the skating rink was opened for skating was more challenging. One incident while I was helping the kids when they fell, one girl panicked and lost sight of her teacher. Me and another student were trying to communicate with her to see how her teacher looked to help her out and using what we learned in class, we were able to find her