Product Description

Alex, Leah, their frog Hopkins, and host Rachel Coleman teach ASL signs for animals, bugs, activities and objects you encounter in your 'great backyard.' Created for ages 1-8, yet fun for all. Available only on DVD. Close-Captioned. Approximate run time: 30 minutes, plus special features. The Great Outdoors includes the following original songs, written by Rachel Coleman: My Great Backyard Right Place, Right Time When the Bugs Come Marching In Caterpillar Dreams

Special Features

features Sign Review - Sign Variations - Singing & Signing - Alternate Ending - Great Backyard - Rachel's Caterpillar.

ASL Signs

ASL signs taught in this DVD: Backyard - Explore - Tent - Trail - Bridge - Stream - Woods - Mountain - Porcupine - Raccoon - Deer - Bear - Owl - Skunk - Beaver - Wolf - Eagle - Fox - Bug - Ant - Fly - Spider - Bee - Worm - Mosquito - Caterpillar - Butterfly.

And if you pay close attention, you'll also see and learn these additional signs: ABC Review - Number 1-10 Review - Come - Signing Time - Hi - Teach - Sing - Laugh - Play - Favorite - Water - Open - Door - Hard - Far - Pack - Bag - Tell - Big - Small - None.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #13618 in DVD
• Released on: 2005-12-15
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 30 minutes

Customer Reviews

Valueable educational products for kids ever made
We were introduced by our son's child care giver. He was 20 months old when he first started with signing time in Daycare. Ever since then he came home signing and singing the melody of the songs from the DVDs. When he started to speak all the alphabets and numbers and words from the books, me and my husband were surprised and happy. When he was two years old, he already knew all the colors, number 1-10 and A to Z in additon to a lot of vocabs. Until today, he watches signing time everyday and continue learning.
We think this is a great fun learning product and we love it!

A must have!
This is a fun addition to our Signing Time collection. Kids of all ages are fascinated by the things they see outside and this DVD will fascinate them also! My children, ages 20 months - 5 1/2, love this volume and they are excited to "explore my great backyard!". I love the songs, and my kids can't get enough. They listen to the soundtrack daily!

Entertaining and Educational
As the mother of twins, one hearing and one deaf, I have had the opportunity to check out many programs for teaching ASL to small children. This is by far the best series out there. Most other products are so boring that parents must struggle to stay awake during the production, and there is no way a toddler would tolerate a viewing. My 2-year-old twins request Signing Time all of the time. At home they want the DVDs playing almost constantly. In the car my hearing daughter starts asking for the Signing Time CD before I even have her strapped into her carseat. My 2-year-old deaf daughter is using 5-sign sentences, which is almost unheard of for the deaf child of hearing parents. My extended family owns a total of 6 sets of Signing Time. Whenever my daughters' cousins have a birthday they ask for the latest Signing Time DVDs. Children of all ages love this product.