{"id":1837,"date":"2010-11-02T12:57:41","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T17:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/2010\/11\/02\/hopkins-hop\/"},"modified":"2010-11-02T12:57:41","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T17:57:41","slug":"hopkins-hop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/2010\/11\/02\/hopkins-hop\/","title":{"rendered":"Hopkins Hop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you didn&#8217;t know, Ben and I have been working on teaching Mikayla sign language since she was about 6 or 7 months old.&#160; She knows quite a few signs and it helps her communicate with us and us with her.&#160; My friend wrote a great post on teaching children sign language <a href=\"http:\/\/fromakindergartenteachersdesk.blogspot.com\/2010\/10\/thoughts-on-signing.html\">here<\/a>.&#160; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.signingtime.com\/\">Signing Time<\/a> is a DVD series that we use a lot with Mikayla.&#160; I was first introduced to it when I worked at <a href=\"http:\/\/kap.wku.edu\/\">KAP<\/a> last summer and reintroduced this year by our special education teacher at school.&#160; Mikayla loves the DVD&#8217;s and is now asking to watch them!&#160; Hopkins is the frog mascot they use in the series to help teach signs (along with a few other main characters Alex, Leah and Rachel).&#160; Here is Mikayla doing the Hopkins Hop!<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; width: 425px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:df386597-f2db-4c01-848c-ecdcd3ec5c95\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">\n<div><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/i4-nJAdYHGU&amp;hl=en\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/i4-nJAdYHGU&amp;hl=en\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you didn&#8217;t know, Ben and I have been working on teaching Mikayla sign language since she was about 6 or 7 months old.&#160; She knows quite a few signs and it helps her communicate with us and us with her.&#160; My friend wrote a great post on teaching children sign language here.&#160; Signing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[30,15,7,106],"class_list":["post-1837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parenting","tag-growing-up","tag-kap","tag-mikayla","tag-sign-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}