Welcome to the Instructional Video for Signing Friends – I See

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 use this page as a prompt to talk and sign about all the other things you’ve seen out and about that day.  Happy signing!

Story Text and Sign Transcription

I see a bus (I / SEE / BUS)

I see a flower (I / SEE / FLOWER)

I see a postbox (I / SEE / POSTBOX)

I see a plane (I / SEE / PLANE)

I see a rainbow (I / SEE / RAINBOW)

I see a tree (I / SEE / TREE)

I see a butterfly (I / SEE / BUTTERFLY)

I see a balloon  (I / SEE / BALLOON)

I see stars (I / SEE / STARS)

I see me (I / SEE / ME)

I see my friends (I / SEE / FRIENDS) *nb we sign FRIEND here rather than plural

What will you see today? (WHAT / YOU / SEE / TODAY)

Vocabulary and Makaton Stages

Stage 1

BUS

I

ME

SEE

WHAT

YOU

Stage 2

FLOWER

TREE

Stage 3

BUTTERFLY

MY

PLANE

Stage 4

FRIEND

Stage 5

POST BOX

Stage 7

STARS

TODAY

Stage 8

BALLOON

National Curriculum part 1

RAINBOW