The Ziigwan Kit has been created to help language learners master Spring vocabulary and phrases in Anishinaabemowin.

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Ziigwan Resource Guide

This resource guide provides ideas for activities, games, songs, and lessons when teaching about spring time with your learners. There are also cues and questions for instructors to use in Anishinaabemowin.

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Mikan!
mikan instructions

Use this handy chart to organize a Ziigwan scavenger hunt for your learners.

mikan worksheet

This visual vocabulary list can be laminated and used outside to help learners identify objects in nature.

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Listen to Kelvin Morrison say the Mikan! vocabulary:

Ininaatig igaye Manijooshag
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Read the story in Anishinaabemowin with English Translations

key words for maple tree and the bugs

Read the story in English with key Anishinaabemowin words.

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manipulative images of a bear, a beaver, a rat and woodpeckers

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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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:

Bizindan & Nagamon

This song encourages learners to sing about working in the Sugar Bush!

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