Auslan News
Errol St Campus
North Melbourne Primary School
From Simone McGenniskin, Senior School Auslan teacher
My Weekend and Assessment
In weeks 5 & 6, students learned how to describe their weekend with the following vocabulary: games, change, explain, friend, drive, saw, visit, play, draw, hang out, go, busy, sleep, boring, movies, beach, markets, sports, parks, friends, homework, restaurants, weekend.
This week marked the beginning of our formal Auslan assessment for the year, which tests students vocabulary, fingerspelling, numbers, facial expressions, sentences, grammar and accuracy. Filling in the below sheet, students described someone important in their life in Auslan during a 1:1 assessment. Students are not to speak during the assessment, and can only clarify questions using fingerspelling. It has been enormously impressive to see how much the students have learnt over the past few years in this final challenge, and each student has given this assessment their best shot.
For those who have finished their assessment or are waiting their turn, Simone used an Auslan font generator to create the below wordsearch. Feel free to download the Auslan font for your home computer and print this for a practice activity at home!
