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One carschooling mom has a degree in American Sign Language/Interpreting for the Deaf.  When she was a student, her instructor who was deaf, suggested practicing signing signs as a way to practice finger-spelling.  First, get a chart of finger-spelling sign symbols for the letters of the alphabet.  To play, try to finger spell any word [...]

Rhyming Signs

Ask your carschoolers to pick one word from a billboard or road sign.  Then tell them to try to find all the words that sound alike or that rhyme.  For example, let’s say they pick the word “free” from a billboard.  Now think of all the words that rhyme, such as “tree,” “bee,” “see,” “me,” [...]

Carschooling Foreign Languages: Translation Game

A carschooler in California where many towns, cities, and streets have Spanish names because much of the state was settled by Spanish explorers, ranchers, and missionaries. She said that her kids, who were studying Spanish in school, began to notice this phenomenon and created the Translation Game. Players take turns calling out a town or [...]