by boot | Feb 19, 2025
You could have the students work in pairs, in which one student describes an object orally and the other student draws the object without being able to ask questions to the speaker. Cross-curricular Connections: Oral Language (Literacy), the Arts (Visual)
by boot | Feb 19, 2025
Discuss with students: Based on Indigenous Peoples’ beliefs, what are the roles that children and adults/parents play in their families? (Children bring questions, laughter, excitement and wonder to their families, and adults/parents bring guidance, stability, love...
by boot | Feb 19, 2025
Shi-shi-etko’s family members all had valuable teachings they wanted her to remember. Activity: Walk through the text with students and make an anchor chart on chart paper of the valuable teachings. Keep it posted in the classroom for future reference. Ask students:...
by boot | Feb 19, 2025
Ask the class: Has anyone ever gone canoeing before? What was that experience like? What does canoeing sound like? How does Shi-shi-etko’s dad keep their pace while they’re paddling?
by boot | Feb 19, 2025
Read the introduction from Nicola I. Campbell about the residential school system and how the government at that time forced all Indigenous children to attend schools away from their families. Discuss with the class the implications that this created for the families...
