Time You Can See
Welcome to “Time You Can See,” a calendar for teaching Deaf children concepts of time. We recommend using all digital stimuli with the physical calendar.
We recommend beginning with this homepage to teach your students (or review) how to read a calendar. First, review what a week, a month, and a day look like on a calendar. Then, review the days of the week in ASL. Use the image and videos in the white section of this page.
Then, move to the grey section and review what every, last, this, and next mean. Download the worksheet and play each video, asking students to identify what the concepts look like on their calendar.
Finally, move to the black section. Choose the current month and continue with the activities on that page. Each month contains stimuli videos asking students to think about the first day and the last day of the month; today, yesterday, and tomorrow; the season and the weather; what is happening that month; and the concepts of already, recently, and soon. Some months also have a “How many days until [holiday]?” video at the end.
Every, Last, This, Next
Download this page for each student to target the concepts of every, last, this, and next. Play the videos and ask students to draw, circle, or color code their calendar to indicate what it means (e.g., for every day they must circle every day on the calendar).