hey humble followers of the deaf and ASL tags—I need some ASL help!
in my preschool classroom we’re hatching chicks (as in, you know, baby chickens). This has raised a question for me and none of my books have an answer!
- is there a sign for “to hatch”? I considered crack-egg but the way I’ve always seen it used ,the implication is that someone else is doing it. I also considered just BIRTH, but I really want to communicate that birds are born in a special way where they grow in their egg and then break out of it on their own (we’ve been talking about what makes different kinds of animals “special”—fish live in the water and swim, reptiles are cold-blooded, mammals are warm-blooded and drink milk when they’re babies, etc etc). Is there a sign for that? or should I just sign “bird egg-crack bird”? is that even proper grammar?
Any help would be crazy appreciated. THANK YOU SO MUCH in advance for any input!!
PS - I hope you can forgive my clumsiness here—my ASL education has been highly informal (i.e., through immersion and trial and error and deaf acquaintances laughing [in a loving way!] and correcting me) rather than academic, so while I can communicate fairly well, I was never formally taught much about some of the finer subtleties of grammar and things like glossing.