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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Gitigaadan! is a fun story about the growth of plants and can be used in many ways.
You can download and print your own copy, or view it with your PDF viewer.

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You can watch and listen to Gitigaadan! read by Wejepibines Edward Atatise Jr.
Follow along, repeat after Wejepibines, and enjoy listening to the story.

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Use these large traceable images to practice fine motor skills, or laminate and use them for play-doh mats!

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.

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!

This tracing booklet is a fun, fine-motor skills activity that is easy to complete and send home to families for more language practice!

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Use this chart and vocabulary list to organize a Ziigwan scavenger hunt for your learners. Each learner can use a copy of the visual scavenger hunt to aid them in their search.

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Listen to Kelvin Morrison say the Mikan! vocabulary:

Can’t get outside? Use this tiny tap game on your smart device or smartboard for an interactive search and find activity!

Odaminodaa! Let’s Play!

This Listening Exercises is great for older learners to use with the Tiny Tap to practice spelling the words being said by the fluent speaker.

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Nanaboozhoo idash Nikag
Front cover illustration of Nanaboozoo Book

Read the story in Anishinaabemowin with English translations provided.

Photographs of a raspberry bush and geese in flight

Print, laminate, and use these manipulatives to retell the story to learners, or have them retell the story to you!

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illustration of person outside of birch bark structure

Print and distribute these colouring pages to help learners identify the 5Ws in the story

illustration of person tossing food in their mouth

Have learners put the images into the right sequence and retell the story.

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Listen to the story being told by Kelvin Morrison:

Ininaatig igaye Manijooshag

Read the story in Anishinaabemowin with English Translations

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.

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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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Check out these other great resources from instructors and learners across Anishinaabe territory.

Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission

This website offers a great variety of activities for all learners. This link will take you to their Ziigwan kit which features interactive games, audio books, and teaching resources around spring time activities like Sugar Bush.

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Ojibwemotaadidaa Omaa Gidakiiminaang

OOG offers learners a great selection of resources that also help with immersion environments.  They have resources for Sugar Bush, and also offer a Spring kit for children.

Sugar Bush Resources
Spring Kit