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Secrets of the Heart® American Sign Language with Patty Dagata
Patty Dagata is a Los Angeles Educator and Specialist in American Sign Language (ASL). She recently conducted a Professional Development for the Teaching Artists of Dream A World Education, an arts non-profit working in low-income schools in Los Angeles. This video captures the ASL relevant to our Secrets of the Heart®, Passport To The Heart and One World Drum Circles, Story and Song Programs. It also includes some useful classroom vocabulary.
Secrets of the Heart® American Sign Language
Friendship • Smile • Kindness • Imagination • Thank you • Courage • Love • Creativity • Peace • Giving • Beauty • Family • Happiness
Fanga
A Liberian Folk Song w/Anindo and Bunny Hull
Osani Circle Game
Try this Osani Circle Game played by the Pygmy children of the Efe´ tribe of Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo) in Central Africa.
- 1. Sit in a circle with everyone’s feet touching to play the Osani circle game called “Circle of Love”.
- 2. Each person names a round object like the sun or the moon, or an eye, older children go on to name an expression of “round”, like a circle of friends, or cycle of the moon.
- 3. As players fail to give an answer that is “circular” they drop out until one player is left.
In the tradition the one remaining player will live a long and prosperous life!