Hear hear for ears! Bunny ears!

The adorable child apparently is not included with these rabbit ears. I checked the instructions at least twice for that. And oh you have to make the ears yourself. That’s okay for you, yes? Hop on over to see how, and, yes, I promise I’ll take all the credit when your little ones insist on [...]

Kangaroos and Friends: The Silent Types

A kangaroo hops into a classroom and says…..well, now what does a kangaroo say? A few years ago I got stumped with elephants, who trumpet, yes, but what do they actually say? And now that Super Simple Learning has released Animals, I have a happy huge list of terrific-to-gesture animals, but I don’t know what [...]

Sign Language ABC with Linda Bove

The mother of one of my students showed me this Sesame Street sign language book this morning. She said her mother had bought it ages ago and happened to find it again. Love to both mothers! For each letter, there’s the American Sign Language sign, a few words, and maybe a sentence. The whole book [...]

Mildly air conditioned car

This polite sign informed me that the Tokyo metro car I was about to enter was just mildly air conditioned. Not excessively so. Just mildly. It’s not even hot enough yet for air conditioning, so I’m not quite sure what this mildness might mean. When the temperatures rise, I’ll want full force air conditioning, please. [...]

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