If you’ve ever watched a Signing Time or Baby Signing Time DVD, you know how easy it is for the songs to get stuck in your head. Sometimes I find myself in the grocery store singing, “It’s Signing Time with Alex and Leah; it’s Signing Time with Alex and Leah…come and play!”  People look at me funny, but I just can’t help it. I love these songs! If you love these songs, too, and want to share the words with others so they can sing along with you, download the lyrics here:

Baby Signing Time Lyrics

Signing Time Series 1 Lyrics

Signing Time Series 2 Lyrics

Create these adorable Shrinky Dink necklaces and bracelets that feature Hopkins the Frog from your favorite Signing Time books and videos.

Click here to get directions and template for Shrinky Dink Jewelry

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We’ve been hard at work creating new ways to learn with Signing Time. Late last week we launched our first iPhone application. The application uses our flashcards and short video clips to teach basic ASL vocabulary. The iPhone app contains all the signs from our first two Signing Time DVDs My First Signs and Playtime Signs. Click the App Store button below to view and purchase the application in iTunes.

The application will work on any iPhone and also iPod touch. The first section is dedicated to the flashcards. The front side of each flashcard has cute and vibrant images of the word. To learn the ASL sign simply tap the flashcard and the back of the flashcard will show Rachel signing the ASL sign as well as an explanation of how to make the sign.

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Our amazing tech-man, Mike, just updated the Signing Time forum! The Signing Time forum is an online discussion site that contains several categories of discussion, as well as threads and individual posts. The forum is a perfect way to connect with others that may have similar experiences using American Sign Language (ASL) to break down communication barriers.

Whether a forum member has children, students or just wants to learn ASL as a second language, the forum makes it possible to ask questions, connect with others in the sign language community and provides a place where others can share their own experiences with sign language.

It is a great resource that we are constantly trying to build.

The administrator will probably require you to register in order to use all the features of the forum. Being registered gives you an identity on the board, a fixed username on all messages you post and an online public profile.

Registration is free (unless otherwise specified), and offers an extended range of features, including:

• Posting new threads
• Replying to other peoples’ threads
• Editing your posts
• Receiving email notification of replies to posts and threads you specify
• Sending private messages to other members
• Creating albums of pictures and comment on others’ pictures
• Adding events to the forum calendar
• Setting up a ‘contact list’ to quickly see which of your friends are online.

Earlier this month, Leah wrote an essay for her 5th grade class about her hero-her mom! We asked Aaron Coleman, Rachel’s husband, to record Leah as she expressed her appreciation to her mom. Since Mother’s Day has come and gone, we thought it might be kind of cool to share this with you!

If you have trouble viewing the video above, you can also try viewing Leah’s Mom Video as an mp4.