Refer to the chart, "What Our Elders Teach Us"
Have them make a self portrait puppet using the same technique.
Model two puppets talking to each other, with the Elder puppet teaching a student puppet something that is on the chart.
Have students identify one thing on the chart that they want their puppets to "act out."
Have students use the puppets to act out things they have learned from their Elders. (They will use these puppets for the next several lessons.)
Create a "puppet show theater, using a cut
Materials
popsicle sticks
xerox photos of students' faces
card stock paper to cut out body shape
paint or markers to add color to the body
glue
Read aloud the class book they created in the last session, What We Learn From Our Elders
Tell them today they will be able to list ways to show respect for an Elder
On a chart titled, How We Show Respect for Our Elders, have them identify some ways to demonstrate respect for an Elder. (Bring them a chair to sit on at a community event, have them go to the front of the line for food at a community event, greet them in their native language, etc.)
Using their puppets, students can act out examples from the chart of how to show respect for an Elder.
Materials
class book, What We Learn from Our Elders
chart paper
puppets made the past two days
Review chart, How We Show Respect for Our Elders.
Each student draws and colors in a picture (hopefully different examples) of how to show respect for an Elder on a square piece of paper. (8.5x8.5')
Under the drawing, students write, I show respect for my Elders when I ______________.
Materials
8.5 x 8.5" square square white paper for each student
drawing materials
Have students glue their quilt square pictures onto a colored piece of construction paper (10x10" square) leaving a border around the edge of the drawing.
Students can design a patterned border for their quilt square using paper pattern block shapes, scraps of patterned fabric, or paint/draw a border design.
Glue completed squares onto a large piece of butcher paper to create a class quilt titled, Respecting Our Elders.
Materials
10x10" square colored construction paper
glue
paper pattern block shapes OR scraps of patterned fabric OR paint/drawing materials
butcher paper
Students will greet the Elder i n their native language. Make sure students know how to say, "hello, thank you, goodbye"
Students will bring a chair for the Elder and offer them (water, tea, coffee, etc.)
Students will listen to the Elder share traditional knowledge.
Students will share their class quilt and Elders book.
Students will give the Elder a gift of local subsistence food, if possible, such as a pint of locally picked berries, frozen piece of seal meat, fish, etc. These are foods that our local Elders grew up on and is something they would appreciate.
Students will thank the Elder and say goodbye in their native language.
Materials
gifts of local subsistence food for Elder(s)