Describe the diversity of traditions, celebrations, or stories of individuals in the classroom and school.
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Generate questions about family traditions and celebrations (e.g., Are special clothes worn? Is there special food? Are there special dances, songs, music? Are there other special cultural traditions?). |
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Describe behaviours, actions, or activities that are part of students' family traditions or celebrations. |
| (c) |
Gather information regarding traditions, celebrations, or stories of others by identifying and accessing various resources (e.g., family members, Elders, teachers, neighbours, library books, video clips). |
| (d) |
Re-tell stories about traditions and celebrations of members of the classroom (e.g., How do families spend free time? How are weddings, birthdays, anniversaries, or family reunions celebrated?). |
| (e) |
Compare how families recognize important family events (e.g., What is the same about how a student and a friend/classmate recognize family birthdays, weddings, deaths? What is different?). |

- Grandfather, What is a Powwow?
- Grandfather, What is a Sweat Lodge?
- Grandfather, Why Do We Use the Drum?
- Grandmother, What are the Seven Teachings?
- Grandmother, What is a Dreamcatcher?
- Grandmother, What is a Feast?
- Grandmother, What is a Talking Stick For?
Her teacher, Miss Hendrickson, encourages the young girl to draw a picture to remember the Nipawin area. She draws the road with the trailers, the forest, the creek and everything that is special to her so that she will remember it always.
The book was nominated for the 2009 McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award.
Included with the book is a CD with an English and Michif narration of the poem.
This book highlights the importance of looking ahead to and planning for what we leave our grandchildren and the generations to follow.
Included in the resource is a variety of formats to support resource-based learning. Instructional strategies are explained and differentiating instruction is included to assist teachers with the diversity within the classrooms. The "release of responsibility" model has students demonstrating and applying their knowledge in a variety of ways. A comprehensive approach is used to teach the cues and conventions and they are incorporated into the framework of the lesson plans. There are cross-curricular units that link to science and social studies.
The teacher's guide is detailed and comprehensive with formative and summative assessment tools. Teacher reflection is emphasized.
- Nelson Literacy 1. Cross-Curricular Kit. Energy in the Environment
- Nelson Literacy 1. Cross-Curricular Kit. Materials and Objects
- Nelson Literacy 1. Cross-Curricular Kit. My World
- Nelson Literacy 1. Cross-Curricular Kit. Relationships, Rules, and Responsibilities
- Nelson Literacy 1. Cross-Curricular Kit. Seasons
- Nelson Literacy 1. Cross-Curricular Kit. The Needs of Living Things
- Nelson Literacy 1. Guided Reading Kit. Energy in Our Lives
- Nelson Literacy 1. Guided Reading Kit. Materials and Objects
- Nelson Literacy 1. Guided Reading Kit. My World
- Nelson Literacy 1. Guided Reading Kit. Relationships, Rules, and Responsibilities
- Nelson Literacy 1. Guided Reading Kit. Seasons
- Nelson Literacy 1. Guided Reading Kit. The Needs of Living Things
- Nelson Literacy 1. Single Copy Set. Energy in Our Lives
- Nelson Literacy 1. Single Copy Set. Materials and Objects
- Nelson Literacy 1. Single Copy Set. My World
- Nelson Literacy 1. Single Copy Set. Relationships, Rules, and Responsibilities
- Nelson Literacy 1. Single Copy Set. Seasons
- Nelson Literacy 1. Single Copy Set. The Needs of Living Things
- Métis Beadwork. Can You See Flowers? (6 pack)
- Métis Beadwork. I Spy Flower Beadwork (6 pack)
- Métis Beadwork. Maria Beads a Flower (6 pack)
- Métis Clothing. All About the Sash (6 pack)
- Métis Clothing. The Sash (6 pack)
- Métis Clothing. Time to Dance (6 pack)
- Métis Dance. Dancing Shapes (6 pack)
- Métis Dance. Métis Dance Shapes (6 pack)
- Métis Dance. The Métis Star Dance (6 pack)
- Métis Food - What Do You Like on Your Beignes? (6 pack)
- Métis Food - What's for Lunch? (6 pack)
- Métis Food. Bang! Beigne! (6 pack)
- Métis Food. Making Beignes with Kohkum (6 pack)
- Métis Food. Rababoo Stew for Lunch (6 pack)
- Métis Food. Yummy, Yummy in My Tummy (6 pack)
- Métis Identity. Back to Batoche Days (6 pack)
- Métis Identity. Batoche Cheerleader (6 pack)
- Métis Identity. We Are Métis! (6 pack)
- Métis Music. Andy Learns to Fiddle (6 pack)
- Métis Music. Squeak Squawk! (6 pack)
- Métis Music. The Fiddle Competition (6 pack)
- Métis Symbols & Celebrations. Let's Make a Métis Flag Pin (6 pack)
- Métis Symbols & Celebrations. Where is the Métis Flag? (6 pack)
- Métis Symbols and Celebrations. High in the Sky (6 pack)
- Métis Traditional Storytelling. Do You Believe in Roogaroos? (6 pack)
- Métis Traditional Storytelling. Is There a Roogaroo in You? (6 pack)
- Métis Traditional Storytelling. Where's the Roogaroo? (6 pack)
- Taanishi Books. Library Pack
- Circle of Life Set 2. Berry Picking with Nokomis (6-pack)
- Circle of Life Set 2. Corn Soup (6-pack)
- Circle of Life Set 2. Frogs for Supper (6-pack)
- Circle of Life Set 2. Getting Ready for the Feast (6-pack)
- Circle of Life Set 2. Making Bannock (6-pack)
- Circle of Life Set 2. My Drum (6-pack)
- Circle of Life Set 2. Nokomis and I Go to Town (6-pack)
- Circle of Life Set 2. Sharing (6-pack)
- Circle of Life Set 2. Teacher eSupport DVD
- Circle of Life Set 2. The Gift of Water (6-pack)
- Circle of Life Set 2. The Sweat Lodge (6-pack)
- Circle of Life Set 2. To the Arena (6-pack)
There is one recipe from each country at the end of the book. The students will have fun smelling, touching, tasting and laughing as they try out the recipes.
Included are a table of contents, recipes and a glossary.
- Circle of Life Set 1. At Home in the Bush (6-pack)
- Circle of Life Set 1. Can You Give Me My Name? (6-pack)
- Circle of Life Set 1. Four Colours, Four Hands (6-pack)
- Circle of Life Set 1. Getting Ready for the Powwow (6-pack)
- Circle of Life Set 1. I Can Sing (6-pack)
- Circle of Life Set 1. In the Light of Grandmother Moon (6-pack)
- Circle of Life Set 1. My Bustle (6-pack)
- Circle of Life Set 1. Teacher eSupport DVD
- Circle of Life Set 1. The Six Clans (6-pack)
- Circle of Life Set 1. Where are Grandma and Grandpa? (6-pack)
- Circle of Life Set 1. Where is My Moccasin? (6-pack)
- Circle of Life Set 1. Why Do You Smudge, Mishoomis? (6-pack)
- Askî and Turtle Island
- Askî's Family Scrapbook
- Kon and the Circle of Life
- Nipi and Mother Earth
- Tate and the Flyers
- Under One Sun Grade 1. At Home and at School
- Under One Sun Grade 1. Guided Reading Classroom Set
- Under One Sun Grade 1. Guided Reading Single Copy Set
- Under One Sun Grade 1. I Do Good Things
- Under One Sun Grade 1. Long Ago and Today
- Under One Sun Grade 1. Print Teacher's Resource
- Under One Sun Grade 1. Teacher Resource Set
- Under One Sun Grade 1. We Help Each Other
- Under One Sun Grade 1. What Do You Share?
- Under One Sun Grade 1. What Does Mother Earth Share?
- Grandmother, What is a Sharing Circle?
- Grandfather, Tell Us About Wild Rice
- Grandfather, Tell Us About the Eagle Feather
- Grandfather, Tell Us About the Igloo
- Grandfather, Tell Us About the Inukshuk
- Grandfather, Tell Us About the Totem Pole
- Grandmother, Tell Us About Our Elders
- Grandmother, Tell Us About Regalia
- Grandmother, Tell Us About the Four Sacred Medicines
- Grandmother, Tell Us About the Star Blanket
- Grandfather, Tell Us About Sage
- Grandfather, Tell Us About Traditional Tobacco
- Grandfather, Tell Us About the Birch Bark Canoe
- Grandfather, Tell Us About the Bison
- Grandfather, Tell Us About the Sacred Pipe
- Grandmother, Tell Us About Cedar
- Grandmother, Tell Us About Sweetgrass
- Louis Says. Season 4, Episode 1. Garlic Bulbs Go Off/ More Feathers
- Louis Says. Season 4, Episode 2. I Got You Covered/ Pets Rock
- Louis Says. Season 4, Episode 3. Fun with Flags/ How to Train Your Osky
- Louis Says. Season 4, Episode 4. Magnifying Trouble/ Squirrel Food
- Louis Says. Season 4, Episode 5. Pizza Mania/ Mrs. Charles' Treasure
- Louis Says. Season 4, Episode 6. Competing Ideas/ Don't Rain on Mrs. Charles Parade
- Louis Says. Season 4, Episode 7. Gourmet Cat/ Some Kind of Lake Monster
- Louis Says. Season 4, Episode 8. Giant Painting/ Going Around the Bushes
- Grandfather, Tell Us About the Algonquin People of Long Ago
- Grandfather, Tell Us About the Inuit People of Long Ago
- Grandfather, Tell Us About the Iroquois People of Long Ago
- Grandfather, Tell Us About the Ojibwe People of Long Ago
- Grandmother, Tell Us About the Haida People of Long Ago
- Grandmother, Tell Us About the Mi'kmaq People of Long Ago
- Grandmother, Tell Us About the Métis People of Long Ago
- Grandmother, Tell Us About the Sioux People of Long Ago
- Mama, What is Métis Beadwork?
- Mama, What is Métis Music and Dance?
- Mama, What is the Métis Sash?
- Mama, What is the Red River Cart?
- Mama, Who was Louis Riel?
This document will assist individuals and communities to engage in meaningful discussions and actions to respond to the experiences, perspectives and needs of students and families who are gender and/or sexually diverse (GSD).
Content includes:
- Gender and Sexual Diversity
- First Nations and Métis Ways of Knowing
- Assumptions, Privilege and Oppression
- Comprehensive School Community Health (CSCH)
- CSCH Approach to Creating Inclusive Schools