Seasonal Ojibwe Celebrations
Lesson Plans

Teacher: Ms. Robin Williams

Grade Level: 2nd Grade

Ojibwemowin Experience: Low Level

Content/Theme: Hunting and Fishing

Time: 15 minutes a day

Lesson Name: Deer Hunter

Materials: classroom, playground, or gym

Objective: Students will imitate how hunting happens in the woods during deer season. Students will add to their Ojibwe language vocabulary by learning what the word is for deer, hunter, and all other equipment used for deer hunting. They learn when the months of deer season.

Preparation: 15-30 minutes

Procedure/Directions:

Choose 1 student to be the deer and they must act like one and all other players are the hunters. The deer may walk around or stand in one place. If the deer sees or hears a hunter, the deer must correctly identify the hunter that moved or made the noise and the deer must snort at that hunter. When this happens, the hunter is out. Once the hunter is out, he/she must sit quietly out of the area of where the game is played. The last hunter in the game wins and may choose to either be the deer or choose a student to be the deer.

Assessment: Written test of Ojibwe words

Teacher: Ms. Robin Williams

Grade Level: 2nd Grade

Ojibwemowin Experience: Low Level

Content/Theme: Hunting and Fishing

Time: 15 minutes a day

Lesson Name: Fishing game

Materials: Yarn, sticks, construction paper, magnets

Object Students will understand how people of long ago used and today fished. They will learn that they used different techniques. They will learn the different times of the year for fishing (ice fishing, spring smelting, summer fishing, river fishing) and they will learn the names of the fish that were caught in Ojibwe language. This will make a strong connection to the Oijbwe culture.

Preparation: 3 days of preparation (20 minutes a day), 30 minutes for the game to be played

Procedure/Directions:

Students will make all the different kinds of fish that the Ojibwe fished for out of construction paper. The students will color the make to fish look like the real fish. They will use a stick and make a fishing pole. They will use yarn to attach to the “fishing pole” so that it will look like a fishing pole. They will attach a magnet to the end of the yarn and that will be there bate. They will attach magnets to the fish they have made and start fishing!

Assessment: Written match test, Visual observation.

Teacher: Ms. Robin Williams

Grade Level: 2nd Grade

Ojibwemowin Experience: Low Level

Content/Theme: Gathering Berries

Time: 20 minute

Lesson Name: What makes Blueberries so sweet!

Language Arts and Science

Materials: Book, paper, crayons, markers

Objective: Students will be able to understand and make the connection of blueberries and ants; why blueberries are so sweet. Students will identify, read, and learn how to say “blueberries and ants” in Ojibwe language.

Preparation: 5-10 minutes

Procedure/Directions:

First, ask students why we always see big ant hills around blueberry bushes. Write students responses down. Next, read story “science-nonfiction” about why ant hills are always near blueberry bushes. Then have students draw what blueberry bushes look like, include ant hills, and anything else that would be around them. Last, label blueberry bushes and ant hill in Ojibwe language. Assessment: Test, oral, and visual observation

Teacher: Ms. Robin Williams

Grade Level: 2nd Grade

Ojibwemowin Experience: Low Level

Content/Theme: Gathering Berries

Time: 20 minute

Lesson Name: Healthy Food Snack, “Make a Smoothie”

Materials: Yogurt, blueberries, ice, blender

Objective: Students will be able to understand the nutritious benefits blueberries provide.

Preparation: 20 minutes

Procedure/Directions:

Make smoothie with all ingredients, put in blender until smooth. Pour into cups, drink, and enjoy!

Assessment: Oral observation

Teacher: Ms. Robin Williams

Grade Level: 2nd Grade

Ojibwemowin Experience: Low Level

Content/Theme: Planting

Time: Friday April 20, 2007

Lesson Name: Language Arts; Reading The Legend of the Lady Slipper

Planting: Planted Tulips we will watch them come up in the spring. Science: labeling the parts and process.

Materials: Storybook, Words in Ojibwe and English, planting bulbs, and construction paper and markers. A small space of ground for planting tulip bulbs.

Objective: The objective is for our students to understand the process of how to plant, when we plant different things, and learn new Ojibwe words.

Preparation: 5-10 minutes for materials, planting: 20 minutes in the fall.

Procedure/Directions:

First we will talk about spring and things budding, thawing, ice melting, snow is gone, and now the grass is brown and how it will look in the coming days, what will come up from underneath the frozen ground i.e. tulips, flowers. Next I will read the story. Then I will show them my picture and I will have them go to their tables to draw and label our planted tulips.

Assessment: Visual and Oral observation. A written test.

Teacher: Ms. Robin Williams

Grade Level: 2nd Grade

Ojibwemowin Experience: Low Level

Content/Theme: Month of Sugarbush

Time: 15 minutes a day

Lesson Name: Language Arts; Reading & Writing Memory Match game

Materials: Paper, Words for Sugar Bush in Ojibwe and English

Objective: Students will be able to read and write Ojibwe words that relate to the month of Sugar Bush and what is needed during this time i.e. certain tools, time of the year, etc. They will also know their meaning and will be able to understand its English translation.

Preparation: 5-10 minutes

Procedure/Directions:

Type in large size font (24) all the Ojibwe words that relate to the month of Sugar Bush. Type all these words in English language as well, then split the class up into two groups. Pass out the Ojibwe words to one group and pass out the English words to the other group and have them find their match. Once they have found their match, they will say the words and then write them in a special Ojibwe journal. In our classroom, their will be a poster posted of all these words in both languages and what they mean. They will record these words in their Ojibwe Language journal. This game will be played for about two weeks and then they will have all the Sugar Bush words in Ojibwe language and English and they will understand their meaning.

Assessment: Test, oral, and visual observation.

Teacher: Ms. Robin Williams

Grade Level: 2nd Grade

Ojibwemowin Experience: Low Level

Content/Theme: Month of Sugar Bush

Time: 5-10 minutes a day

Lesson Name: Science and Math, Graphing Weather for Month of Sugar Bush

Materials: Poster-sized classroom graph, marker, thermometer

Objective: Student will be able to understand the weather conditions for Sugar Bush month. They will be able to use a graph, learn new words that relate to weather, able to read the temperature on a thermometer, be aware that the weather changes for the month of Sugar Bush, and learn Ojibwe words.

Preparation: 10 to 15 minutes

Procedure/Directions:

Make a poster-sized graph to track weather, and the texture and conditions of snow. Check weather daily. Say Ojibwe words for temperature, month, snow, weather, graph, and thermometer. A different student each day will check the weather temperature and texture/conditions of the snow. They will record this on the Month of Sugar Bush Graph.

Assessment: Test, oral, and visual observation.