The Ziigwan Kit has been created to help language learners master vocabulary and phrases in Anishinaabemowin around the season of Spring.
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Ganawaabandan
You can watch and listen to Gitigaadan! read by Wejepibines Edward Atatise Jr.
Follow along, repeat after Wejepibines, and enjoy listening to the story.
Danakamigiziwinan
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Use these large traceable images to practice fine motor skills, or laminate and use them for play-doh mats!
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Print this activity sheet for your learners to cut and paste the correct Anishinaabemowin labels onto the plant.
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Cut out these flowers and leaves while using the vocabulary provided for an interactive counting activity for your learners.
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This sequencing activity is a fitting follow-up activity to reading Gitigaadan! Learners can put the growth cycle of a flower in four simple steps.
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Print this search and find activity for your learners, or use it as a simple colouring sheet. Offered in two sizes!
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This tracing booklet is a fun, fine-motor skills activity that is easy to complete and send home to families for more language practice!
Nanaboozhoo idash Nikag
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Read the story in Anishinaabemowin with English translations provided.
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Print, laminate, and use these manipulatives to retell the story to learners, or have them retell the story to you!
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Print and distribute these colouring pages to help learners identify the 5Ws in the story
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Have learners put the images into the right sequence and retell the story.
Listen to the story being told by Kelvin Morrison:
Ininaatig igaye Manijooshag
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Read the story in Anishinaabemowin with English Translations
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Read the story in English with key Anishinaabemowin words.
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Print, laminate, and use these manipulatives to retell the story to learners, or have them retell the story to you!
Listen to the story being told by Rose Marie Tuesday.
Bizindan & Nagamon
This song encourages learners to sing about working in the Sugar Bush!
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This song is written & sung by Maajiigwaneyaash – Gordan Jourdain from Lac La Croix First Nation.
It was turned into a video by our colleagues at Kahwá:tsire Indigenous-Led Child & Family Programs
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