ASL 1 Beginner — Little Signers (Ages 3–7) · 24-Week Course
$15 per class or $360 for all 24 classes
Welcome to a playful introduction to American Sign Language designed especially for young learners ages 3–7. Across 24 weeks, children build beginner ASL skills through short, engaging themes including alphabet handshapes, names, numbers 1–30, greetings, animals, colors, shapes, feelings, weather, manners, family, food, daily routines, simple questions, and mini conversations. Each 30-minute class follows a predictable child-friendly routine: hello and movement warm-up, colorful PowerPoint lesson, teacher modeling, guided signing practice, an interactive game or song, and a quick review. Activities are visual, active, repetitive, and encouraging. Learners can copy signs, answer by pointing or signing, act out vocabulary, play guessing games, and practice with classmates. No prior ASL experience is required. Optional YouTube videos and online games are provided for practice with an adult.
What Your Learner Will Do
- Learners will recognize and produce beginner ASL alphabet handshapes, numbers 1–30, and their first name.
- Learners will use age-appropriate signs for greetings, animals, colors, feelings, weather, manners, family, food, and everyday routines.
- Learners will follow simple signed directions, answer basic questions, and combine familiar signs into short phrases.
Prerequisites: No previous ASL experience is needed. Learners should be able to watch the screen and participate with a parent or caregiver nearby when helpful.
Syllabus
24 Lessons · over 24 Weeks
Week 1: Alphabet Handshapes A–J
Children learn ASL alphabet handshapes A–J through songs, matching, movement, and teacher modeling.
Week 2: Alphabet Handshapes K–R
Children learn letters K–R and practice recognizing and copying each handshape in playful games.
Week 3: Alphabet Handshapes S–Z and My Name
Children finish the alphabet and practice fingerspelling the first letter of their name and short familiar words.
Week 4: Pet Signs and Animal Actions
Children learn signs for common pets and act out animal movements in guessing and matching games.
Week 5: Farm Animal Signs
Children learn signs for farm animals and practice choosing, counting, and describing their favorites.
Week 6: Zoo and Wild Animal Signs
Children learn zoo and wild-animal signs through a pretend safari, movement game, and visual clues.
Week 7: Ocean Animals and Review
Children learn signs for sea animals and review pet, farm, and zoo vocabulary through sorting games.
Week 8: Colors in ASL
Children learn basic color signs and identify colors in toys, clothes, pictures, and the classroom.
Week 9: Shapes, Sizes, and Color Hunt
Children combine colors, shapes, and big or small to describe objects during a playful scavenger hunt.
Week 10: Numbers 1–10
Children recognize and produce numbers 1–10 while counting toys, animals, fingers, and classroom objects.
Week 11: Numbers 11–20 and My Age
Children learn numbers 11–20, practice counting, and use number signs to share their age.
Week 12: Alphabet, Colors, and Numbers Review
Children review early course skills through movement, matching, show-me games, and a friendly quiz.
Week 13: Feelings and Facial Expressions
Children learn signs for happy, sad, mad, tired, scared, and excited while practicing matching facial expressions.
Week 14: Weather Signs
Children learn sunny, rainy, cloudy, snowy, hot, cold, and windy and give a simple weather report.
Week 15: Clothing and Seasons
Children match clothing signs to weather and seasons while choosing what to wear in pretend-play activities.
Week 16: Greetings and Good Manners
Children use hello, goodbye, please, thank you, sorry, and excuse me in short role-play routines.
Week 17: Kindness and Friendship
Children learn signs for friend, help, share, wait, kind, and play through stories and cooperative games.
Week 18: My Family
Children learn family signs and use pictures, pointing, and simple phrases to introduce family members.
Week 19: Food, Snacks, and Drinks
Children learn favorite food and drink signs and practice like, don’t like, want, hungry, and thirsty.
Week 20: Home and Daily Routines
Children learn signs for home, sleep, wake up, eat, play, bath, and clean while sequencing a simple day.
Week 21: Simple Questions: Who, What, and Where
Children recognize and use WHO, WHAT, and WHERE with clear facial expressions in easy guessing games.
Week 22: Building Short ASL Phrases
Children combine familiar signs into short phrases about colors, animals, food, family, feelings, and wants.
Week 23: Deaf Culture and Visual Communication
Children practice respectful visual attention, eye contact, waving, tapping, turn-taking, and getting attention appropriately.
Week 24: Final Review, Show and Tell, and Celebration
Children review favorite signs, play games, and share a short ASL show-and-tell presentation celebrating their progress.