Signing Savvy, Your Sign Language Resource

Dramatic play is such an underrated way for children to learn. I had so much fun interacting with my preschool deaf children and watching how they would communicate through dramatic play. It opened the doors for so many teaching/learning opportunities.

One of my favorites was making restaurant menus including all the plastic play food we had in our dramatic play kitchens and creating our own cafe. The pages would include a digital photo of the food along with a printed version of the sign and then the price. These were all laminated and bound together with a spiral binder. With this we would play restaurant for hours working on such skills as following directions, using our manners to ask questions and treat people politely, table manners, proper nutrition, even math skills as we added up the bills and made change using a calculator. I seriously had some of my 1st graders making change and even leaving a tip! They never saw this as teaching...they were playing...AND LEARNING!