Auslan Report

During this fortnight in Auslan, Grade Preps will learn about the Everyday Signs and Family. When learning about Everyday Signs, students will do an activity which involves sitting in a circle with their peers and asking and responding to questions such as “How are you?” These signs will also encourage signing for everyday activities including asking to go to the toilet. When learning about Family signs students will be able to explain who their family members are. Their learning task will include students drawing a picture of their family and signing who they have in their family (mum and dad). Grade Preps will learn the following signs:

Grade 1 students will learn about Shops and Outside the House. When learning about Shops, students will recognise and correctly sign the shop signs which will include different places you can shop from. The learning activity will involve signing items that you can buy from a supermarket which will also include the previous learning of breakfast signs. When learning about signs for outside the house, students will be able to sign for different areas outside, for example, backyard. The learning activity will involve a matching game where pictures need to match the signs. Grade 1’s will learn the following Auslan signs in these lessons:

Grades 2-6 students will focus on the topics Morning Routines and Lost in the City. When learning about Morning Routines students will learn to recognise and correctly sign to communicate what they do in their morning routines. Grade 3/4 students will need to ensure that they do this in a sequence and Grade 5/6 students will need to ask and respond to questions about their morning routines. When learning about Lost in the City, students will engage in activities that will involve playing hide and seek, role playing about being lost in the city and Grade 5/6 students will look at a map of Melbourne. Learning will also include fingerspelling names of streets. Students will learn the following Auslan signs:

Keep updated on learning Auslan each fortnight in our Partners in Learning Newsletter during Term 1. 

Mrs Jessica Pfister