Welcome to the Instructional Video for Signing Friends – Let’s Get Started – I Feel

The video is aimed at parents, caregivers, teachers, support workers and other professionals to pre-learn the signs for this story.  Watch and practise as many times as you need till you feel confident with the Makaton signs.  Then go ahead and enjoy signing the story with your Makaton user.   We hope you have lots of fun learning Makaton together.

At this end of this book you have a double-page spread to remember and recall all the signs from the story.  You could also use this page as a prompt to talk & sign about your feelings and emotions.  Use props like mirrors to look at different facial expressions.  You can also practise your emotion signs with our Grumpy Face song and If You’re Happy and You Know It.  Happy signing!

Story Text and Sign Transcription

I feel (I / FEEL)

I feel excited (I / FEEL / EXCITED)

I feel calm (I / FEEL / CALM)

I feel sad (I / FEEL / SAD)

I feel happy (I / FEEL / HAPPY)

I feel frightened (I / FEEL / FRIGHTENED)

I feel brave (I / FEEL / BRAVE)

I feel angry (I / FEEL / ANGRY)

I feel nervous (I / FEEL / NERVOUS)

I feel clever (I / FEEL / CLEVER)

I feel pain (I / FEEL / PAIN)

I feel loved (I / FEEL / LOVED)

How do YOU feel today? (HOW / YOU / FEEL / TODAY)

Vocabulary and Makaton Stages

I Feel

 

Stage 1

I

YOU

Stage 5

ANGRY

CALM

CLEVER

FRIGHTENED

HAPPY

LOVE

SAD

 

Stage 7

HOW

TODAY

 

Additional

PAIN

 

Personal Social and Health Education

EXCITED

FEEL (EMOTION)

NERVOUS