Month: September 2014
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2014-2015 School Year: 5/6 Year Old Schedule
Right now we are all working together for our Native American unit study but after Christmas things will be changing a bit as I move into using more curriculum than I ever have before. The schedule described below is the schedule I will be using from January onwards, although some of it is in place […]
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2014-2015 School Year: 3/4 yr old Schedule
Right now we are all working together for our Native American unit study but after Christmas things will be changing a bit as I move into using more curriculum than I ever have before. The schedule described below is the schedule I will be using from January onwards, although some of it is in place […]
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Wibbly Wobbly Weightloss: Becoming Forty
Yes, I turned forty this week and was taken out for dinner twice, a surprise lunch, had a rather large take away, some very tasty chocolate brownies made by Lorna’s lovely daughter and basically did not eat healthily at all. And I’m alright with that. I had a really special birthday week and was made […]
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Native American Unit Week 2- The Birchbark House: Dagwaging (Fall)
The Birchbark House is book one of a four series set of books about a young, Ojibwe girl called Omakayas: This first book is separated into four sections – the four seasons of the year. Each chapter we read we find much to talk about and learn about. In addition there are many parts of the […]
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Introducing the Ojibwe People
We have spent a little over a week familiarising ourselves with the Ojibwe people. As well as access to their computers, the children had a couple of Ojibwe factual books: In addition I spent an hour or so each day reading from these two books: The Birchbark house is a fiction book written by Loiuse Erdrich. Erdrich […]
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How to Make Native American Ojibwe Dolls Clothes
The premise of this study is to create a Ojibwe family, a birch bark house for them to live in and all the Ojibwe bits and bobs to go with a lifestyle congruent with the Ojibwe tribe. The first thing we did was attempt to make a wigwam from twigs and fake Birchbark. I’ll reveal […]
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Ojibwe Oral Tradition
The oral tradition of passing down stories to the next generation is incredibly important to the Native Americans. In the past it was the main way they kept their traditions alive. Treuer, author of Living our Language states, ‘A language carries a people’s memories, whether they are recounted as individual reminiscences, as communal history, or […]
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Ojibwe Art Study: Floral Designs
The Ojibwe People traditionally view their art as being an intrinsic part of their everyday objects, thus they try to make objects that are used everyday as beautiful as possible. In the making of these beautiful things they believe they are showing respect to the Great Spirit. The Ojibwe people draw their inspiration from everything naturally occurring and attempt to […]
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Wibbly, Wobbly Weightloss – losing weight the wibbly, wobbly way: Week 11
Hello and welcome to week 11 of Wibbly Wobbly Weightloss. As expected it really has been a wibbly wobbly, up and down kind of journey. This week has been a vast improvement on last week. I haven’t been asked if I’m pregnant for starters! Something I didn’t share last week because quite frankly I was a […]