Welcome to the Instructional Video for Signing Friends – Poppy’s Pets 1-2-3

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 the end of the book you have a double-page spread to find all the pet animals hiding and a double-page spread of the animals lined up so you can compare the amounts and count along.  Don’t forget to reinforce numbers, counting & sequencing with the Singing Hands numbers songs too – there are TONS to choose from. Happy signing!

Story Text and Sign Transcription

Poppy’s Pets 1-2-3 (P / PET / 1 2 3)

Sign note – we sign the number plus a single version of each animal, not plural animals for consistency from 1-10

1 dog (1 / DOG)

2 cats (2 / CAT)

3 horses (3 / HORSE)

4 birds (4 / BIRD)

5 rabbits (5 / RABBIT)

6 guinea pigs (6 / GUINEA PIG)

7 hamsters (7 / HAMSTER)

8 fish (8 / FISH)

9 lizards (9 / LIZARD)

10 tortoises (10 / TORTOISE)

Where are all the animals? (WHERE / PET)

Vocabulary and Makaton Stages

Core vocabulary

Stage 1

WHERE

Stage 2

BIRD

CAT

DOG

Stage 3

FISH

HORSE

RABBIT

Resource vocabulary 

Animals Transport and Vehicles

GUINEA PIG

HAMSTER

LIZARD

PET

TORTOISE