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Signing Time! Volume 12: Time to Eat

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As the mother of twins, one hearing and one deaf, I have had the opportunity to check out many programs for teaching ASL to small children. This is by far the best series out there. Most other products are so boring that parents must struggle to stay awake during the production, and there is no way a toddler would tolerate a viewing. My 2-year-old twins request Signing Time all of the time. At home they want the DVDs playing almost constantly. In the car my hearing daughter starts asking for the Signing Time CD before I even have her strapped into her carseat. My 2-year-old deaf daughter is using 5-sign sentences, which is almost unheard of for the deaf child of hearing parents. My extended family owns a total of 6 sets of Signing Time. Whenever my daughters' cousins have a birthday they ask for the latest Signing Time DVDs. Children of all ages love this product.

I love the entire Signing Time series as a teaching aid for hearing children.
This particular video is great for smaller kids (my daughter is a year old)- it's attention getting, has fun music, and the signing instruction is very clear.

What I like about this video: an introduction to food words, including many toddler "favorites" (cheese, spaghetti, bread, crackers, etc), and doesn't have much in the way of "junk food"-other than the sign for "candy".
There is also introduction to some basic kitchen words like "cook", and "cup", "plate", "fork", etc.
This is a great video if you have graduated beyond the basics of "milk", "cereal", "mommy" and "daddy".

The "Silly Pizza Song" is especially fun, and my daughter and I always have a good time trying to sign along with Rachel to it.

We've been checking these out from the library for months and finally decided to purchase our daughter's favorites. Vol. 12 Time to Eat and Vol. 9 The Zoo Train. She knows well over 100 signs and is starting to put them together into short phrases. We started doing signs with her at 7 months and she is now 15 months. The songs on this DVD are memorable and not annoying to grownups. My husband and my favorites are Set the Table and Silly Pizza. You can learn many more signs than the ones featured by watching Rachel as she speaks or sings the lyrics, then apply them in conversation with your little one. You'd be surprised to see she already knows them!

This edition of Signing Time is one of my son's absolute favorites (and mine, too). The "set the table" song is really wonderful and motivating. Alex and Leah seem to be having so much fun in this one, really enjoying their roles in this production. Very well done, as always. The perfect gift for a preschool or kindergarten teacher to use in class.

We absolutely LOVE these DVD's~ so entertaining and well done~ my little one's (4 and 2) sign vocabulary just keeps growing and growing! It's especially wonderful for my 2 year old who is a little behind in speaking...he now has a way to let us know what he needs without having to throw himself on the floor screaming because he can't communicate. Thanks Rachel! :o)

This is the 12th volume of the Signing Time series and like the prior sign language volumes it is well done, repetetive enough to teach children easily but so engaging not to be boring. My 4 year old autistic son was essentially nonverbal when we started to purchase the series. He is developing language skills through watching this series when all other things have failed and he is correctly appling this language in normal settings. My 1st grader now brings sign language in for show-n-tell.

Very fun and entertaining video. I would recommend it for anyone with children. We use it to help our speech delayed son to communicate. He loves it!

Our school is currently using Signing Time in an after school program to introduce and teach American Sign Language to children ranging in grades K-6. Rachel does a good job of desribing and demonstating the signs. The music and songs create an enjoyable way to reinforce the new signs learned.

YOU MUST GET THIS! My 2 year old is signing like crazy but my 1 year old has been signing for several months. The music, the video, and the signs are first rate. Don't make a mistake and think this isn't worth getting. There isn't a better video on the market. WE LOVE IT. The problem is that we want more and can't get them.

If you have to get just one I recommend Volume 3 first. The Silly Pizza song is redone here and you can see why children love these videos.

My grandaughter has been signing and singing along with Rachael and adores her. She has learned so many signs and uses them along with her words. She loves the music and sings along with Rachael and loves Alex and Leah as well. This series is so well made and I highly recommend them!