English today was different. Oh, it started with the usual - reading the book, then a game unscrambling sentences which was easy for him and going over his sight words, which he already knows well. But then... we had to make signs. Jonty decided what signs were needed in and around the house:
For his room: (1) Please be quiet (for when Nina is sleeping) and (2) No Entry (aimed, I think at Kids Club kids and Lukas!)
For his special box of treasures: "Do not touch"
For the gate where he often hurts his fingers with the latch : "Be careful"
For the shoe rack: "Please put shoes here"
For the bathroom where Nick was tiling: " Please do not touch the tiles!" - this one he typed on the computer and printed it out very professionally - he enjoyed that a lot.
He also made signs for the cupboards so that P'Noi would know whose drawers were whose: Jonty, Emily and Nina. He did those in Thai and in English - as he pointed out P'Noi can't read English.
He made all the signs on nice big pieces of paper and used lots of bright colours. Getting him to write big was a bit of a challenge, but getting him to use capitals was nigh impossible. I am going to have to work on pointing out that signs normally have big capital letters to draw attention. He did not get that concept at all. I was pleased to see him use an exclamation mark.
He enjoyed it a lot and felt very important going around and sticking up his signs everywhere.
Its the longest lesson we've done yet - mainly because he was a perfectionist about his signs. He wrote all the wording out in his workbook, then chose colours and coloured pens. Then he wrote out the signs onto his coloured paper, but if they were not absolutely perfect, he crumpled them up and started again.
I have a feeling we have not seen the last of his signs.
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