Colors
Move your open hands, palms facing your body, in a forward and backward motion, with your spread-out fingers passing through each other back and forth.
Gray
Mom
Hold your two hands flat with palms touching each other. Rub the hands together.
Cheese
Touch the tip of the middle finger of the "P-hand" to the back of a palm-down S-hand twice.
Principal
Spelling an "S" and an "F". Dr. Bill's notes: You might notice a very slight forward movement as the "S" changes into an "F."
San Francisco
Forming the letter "c" and then "s." You "squeeze" your hand in front of your mouth twice.
Orange
Unlcle
Pinch the fleshy part between your index and thumb on your non-dominant hand with the index and thumb of your dominant hand.
Meat
Both hands held up near the head in somewhat "flattened O" handshapes. Then both hands move forward about six inches.
Teacher
Cover your face with both hands palms slightly curved and uncover your face right away as if playing peek-a-boo
Halloween
Make a fist with the thumb and pinkie finger extended (the ASL sign for 'Y'), then position your hand by the side of your body and twist the hand back and forth.
Yellow
Shaping your hand to form the letter "A." Hold your hand close to your cheek. Twist (or simply shake) your hand a couple of times.
Aunt
Make a slicing motion with four fingers on the back of the other hand, moving along the hand.
Bread
"F" hands. The dominant hand twists. Then you add the "person" sign.
Interpreter
Outstretched hand with fingers together on the side of your hip.
Dog
Make your hand into a fist with your index finger and thumb extended. With your fingers at shoulder level, twist your hand back and forth. The sign for green is like twisting the sign for the ASL letter sign 'G'.
Green
Extend your thumb and index fingers on both hands, like forming horizontal 'L' signs in ASL. Take your dominant hand, and starting with your thumb under your jaw, move and tap it down on top of your non-dominant hand.
Sister
Forming a "C" and closing it twice into an "S" hand.
Milk
Take your dominant hand and and grab some imaginary information off of your palm. Lift that information up and stick it in your head.
Learn
Slide a "Y" hand forward and back on the palm of the non-dominant hand.
New York
Make the ASL letter 'P' sign (a fist, extending the thumb and the middle finger, with the index finger extended and bent down ninety degrees). Take your 'P' sign and shake it around in front and to the side of your body.
Purple
Dominant index finger to touch your forehead, then bring your hand down as you transform it from a pointing hand to an open flat hand.
Son
"S" hand in front of your mouth and move it downward twice as if you were licking a cone
Ice cream
"H" hand down, up, and down again. This version means the same as the previous version. It just adds the non-dominant fist hand. The "H"-hand (lightly) whacks the back of the fist, twice
History
Flat hands in the air and rotate them in unison but clockwise and counter-clockwise such that they look like mirror images of each other, with palms facing out.
Sunday