One of the students in the Dakota High-5 class drew this picture of a butterfly. She even wrote “kimamana,” meaning butterfly, without any help from an adult!

At Anishinabe Academy, the theme of last week for the Dakota High-5 students was hands and hand washing. They learned learned new vocabulary (dirty/not dirty, thumbs, fingers, steps of washing hands, dry your hands), learned a new song – Napahuƞka Togiya (Dakota version of Where is Thumbkin) and made hand-themed art!

You can see some of the pictures of flowers and animals that they made with their handprints here-

http://earlychildpro.org/2011/01/10/dakota-hi-5-handprint-animals/

This month we will focusing on dental care, healthy hearts, valentines and the 5 senses.

A few examples from our most recent art project, handprint animals. I think they turned out really cute!