Field Trip: ASL at the Zoo

One of our best field trips so far this year was a day at Roger Williams Park Zoo to learn American Sign Language! Our guides/teachers were a deaf ASL instructor who only communicates in ASL and volunteer docents from the zoo who are currently taking an ASL class with him. The docents shared their fantastic behind-the-scenes tales of the zoo animals both in ASL and speaking while the ASL instructor showed us the signs for the animals, their habitats, and other pertinent vocabulary.

We were all having such a good time that our original 2 hour field trip lasted for over 4 hours!