Infant learning? Baby Sign Language? My Baby CAN Read? Phonics?

My son is a week away from being 5 months old (today’s date being Jan. 15) and I am teaching him a little baby sign language. I am learning at the same time so I sometimes have to take a minute to look up words to do the sign. I try to be consistant but I might forget to sign ‘MILK’ at every nursing or ‘SLEEP’ at night as well as ‘DIAPER’ and ‘PLAY’ and family members. But I try because I really want him to learn it. I am also wanting to take advantage of his young age and teach him something besides sign language. Like phonics or reading, his ABC’s and numbers. Sounds like I’m trying to push him over the top but I’m not, no worries =) we have A TON of play time and we rest a lot so I’m not worried about that BUT I want to teach my baby reading, however I don’t want to use sight words as this merely teaches him to memorize words and not necessarily to sound the letters out. Of course he is too young to be able to make the sounds right away but is there a program or books I can read or show him that will focus on reading and sounding out the letters and making words? I am thinking of this now so I can have plenty of time to figure out what I need to do for later. How do I jumpstart the baby sign language and what can I do for the reading and phonics for when he’s older? I do read to him everyday and I make it active reading with voice changes and signs for certain things. He gets at least 20 constant minutes of reading but we read a few times a day. He’s a very happy baby so I want to take advantage of his willing to pay attention and play. Thanks for whatever advice or information I’m given.

***One reason I am concentrated on sign language is because I want his daddy to be impressed when he gets back from deployment. (Not that he won’t be impressed to see his little man growing up) I don’t want his daddy to think he doesn’t know who he is. It would be amazing if he signed ‘Daddy’ to him when he comes home =) or of course says ‘da-da’ as he will be around a year old when dad comes back for R&R.***
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Photography & Latino Culture: Wise Beyond Years

Photography & Latino Culture: Wise Beyond Years
While lawmakers in Arizona were busy legislating a nightmare for Latino residents of that state, seven immigrant students from Fair Haven School (Rony Leiva, Nestor León, Agustín Minor, Jomar Pellot, Edén Pérez, Uriel Pérez and Frances Torres) have been more commendably pursuing American dreams through an after-school photography program.

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My grandson is 3 years old and does not talk. Do you know printable sign language sheets I can print online?

He is developmentally delayed but has improved a lot over the last few months. We want to find sign language for babies that can be printed to teach him to communicate.
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Help learning American Sign Language(ASL)?

I want to compete in a talent competition through my church. I want to do Dear God by Nick Jonas in sign language, but I have to learn in first lol. I have found 1 or 2 good sites for learning ASL but I was wondering if there is a site that if you put the words in it will do everything automaticly. A site that will put all the words together.
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French, Spanish, Sign language. Which, when, how?!?

I want to learn french and sign language the most. want to learn spanish too, but not as much as the other two. but spanish is the more practical language to learn.

I signed up for french 1 when i start my junior year of high school this year. I know a little sign language because my brother is hard of hearing, but i want to know more. maybe i’ll take it in college. but when do i learn spanish?

when and how can i learn all three languages? i don’t think it would be good to take french and spanish at the same time in high school…
and it would probably get expensive learning multiple languages in college?

I don’t know what to do.
I don’t know if I have the work ethic to teach myself how to write and speak spanish. I would if i knew that I could push myself. I have a feeling if i try to teach myself I’ll slack off or I’ll learn the language wrong.

any advice?
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