By Mark Weltner
Poem:
Quiet voice
Quiet shoes
Quiet as a toadstool – ooo!
Quiet as a spider,
Sitting underneath
Eating eating pie pie,
Drinking drinking tea.
ASL Sign Language:
The sign language is very hard to describe, but I’ll do my best – even better, your child can demonstrate for you!
Quiet voice Cross hands in an X in front of body, and lower them, sliding them away from each other so that they move to either side of your waist
Quiet shoes Make fists in front of you and bump them together a couple times
Quiet as a toadstool – ooo One finger up (stem) with palm of other hand on top (the cap of the toadstool) for “ooo” (raise toadstool up and down as your voice goes up and down).
Quiet as a spider Cross hands in front of body and wiggle fingers like spider legs
Sitting underneath “Sitting”: fisted hand with two fingers out, and take two fingers of the other hand and make them “sit” on top of the first two fingers. “Underneath”: make the fisted hand into a flat hand, palm still down; the other hand makes a fist with thumb up, and it moves underneath the open palm.
Eating eating pie pie “Eating”: put thumb and first two fingers together and move toward mouth like you’re eating. “Pie”: open palm face up, make two slashes across it with other palm, like you’re cutting pie.
Drinking drinking tea “Drinking”: pretend to hold a glass and drink. “Tea”: hold pretend spoon with other hand and stir the pretend tea.
