Kia Ora Bloggers,
This week is National sign language, 14 years ago sign language became an official language of New Zealand along with Maori and English. Before the 6th of April 2006 sign language was banned from being used, children were forced to use it in secret and if they were found to be using it, children kept sugn language going without adults for over 100 years!
Sign language is a mix of hand shapes, facial expressions and body movements, it was created by deaf people for deaf people. Italso reflects New Zealand culture by including by including signs for Maori terminology and concepts.
For our task today we did things based on sign language week. First, we had to go over our alphabet and make sure we could remember it for later, then we had to go on this sign ninja site and complete the different tasks and play the games throughout the different rooms. Here is a link to the site for you to try it yourself: Sign Ninja!
Because we learnt the alphabet we had to sign "Kia ora, my name (your name)" I found this quite easy because I am quite good with the sign language alphabet. Here I am doing it:
Do you know your sign language?
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