Hello, Boozhoo! It's been awhile since we've posted but we wanted to let everyone know that we are still here and still working hard to bring Ojibwe into our schools. During our TLLP project, we were able to invite Elders into our classrooms to share stories and lessons with our students. We would learn several Ojibwe words from the stories and then turn those into our school wide Ojibwe Word of the Week learning. For those of you who have followed along on this journey, Thank You and Miigwech! We hope that you have been able to learn with us!
One of the challenges of our TLLP project was that not everyone in our school was able to hear the stories being shared in our classrooms. So, we decided to change how we were going to choose and learn Ojibwe Words of the Week. We decided that we would choose words from an Indigenous authored book and then educators would be able to read the book in their classrooms.
We are fortunate that each month Nicole reads and records the books for P.E. McGibbon. The first Monday of each month we play this recording is played on our video announcements so that the entire school gets to hear the story together.
We will post our book choice and words each month if you would like to learn with us. Miigwech!
Nicole, Chantima, Allie, Jen and Gretchen
Turtles Race with Beaver by Joseph Bruchac and James Bruchac
Words of the Week:
Mzhiikenh - Turtle
Amik - Beaver
Makwa - Bear
Waawaashkesh - Deer
Click here to access the Word of the Week PDF
