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Spring Performance Demonstrates Success of Language Programs By Cova St. Onge & & 9 Cultural I mu ^' L a "8U a S e P r ° je C t S‘ aff P annered W i ' h S de 'Z V al ' ey S ch O°' “ nd S ile 'Z T nh ;" H ead S la " ** first annua! Spring Performance: -Language The songs and skits shared with the community were as follows: Head Start singing Head, Shoulders, Knees & Toes (Dee-Ni lyrics) Kindergarten singing The Counting Song (Dee-Ni song) First and Second Grade perform a Dee-Ni skit I am a Flower Third Grade Sign Language Songs ABC Song We are the World ~ Michael Jackson Celebrate Earth Day ~ John Denver Third and Forth Grade perform a Dee-Ni skit The Salmon Cycle Fifth and Sixth Grade perform Vocabulary Charades (Dee-Ni version) Ninth Grade performs an Arabic skit Animals Sree Hvsh Singers Happy Birthday to You (Dee-Ni lyrics) Paddle, Paddle, Paddle Your Canoe (Dee-Ni lyrics) Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star (Dee-Ni lyrics) Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star Round Dance Style- SanPoil Whitehead (Dee-Ni and English lyrics) Red Lipstick - Little Island Cree sang by San Poil Whitehead and Logan Butler The Siletz Dee-Ni performances highlighted the curriculum development and song translations of the Siletz Tribal Language Project staff. The staff has worked as a team to develop Siletz Dee-Ni curriculum for Head Start through the fifth grade. The performances were a direct result of a year and a half of efforts by Alfred "Bud Lane 111 as the language spe cialist and director, Joe Scott as the curriculum developer and teacher and my efforts as the Dee-Ni music teacher and project coordinator. The Arabic skit Animals, composed by Abir Hassan, is an activity of the Egyptian teacher who has been part of Siletz Valley School and Early College Academy for the 2009-10 academic year. She was placed with the school through a Teachers of Critical Languages Program grant. Abir Hassan has brought the verbal and written Arabic lan guage to students through the sharing of language and culture. The Animals skit was a demonstration of her achievements. The Spring Performance was brought to the community through a partnership of efforts and funding from the Admin istration for Native Americans, TCLP U.S. Department of State through the American Councils for International Education, the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians and Siletz Valley School. The event was extremely successful, involving 367 attend ees, 162 kids and 20 staff. In addition to the staff, a special thanks to the volunteers who assisted in the success of the event; Cheryl Schriver and Linda Luckini for the beautiful painting on the stage backdrop; Kelli Brugh and Patty Socha-Paul for staging students and general assistance; Bonnie and Morgan Crawford for greet ing and general assistance; Darod Cheek for video recording; and numerous students who assisted in the setup. Thank you to Siletz Valley School and Siletz Tribal Head Start staff for your support and participation in bringing this outstanding event to the community. Nuu-wvn srxii-xe xuu-srxii-xe hii-chu xuu-srxii-xe hii-chu xaa-ma (For our children, their children and their children) Hvm'-chi’ Joe Scott (top photo, right) leads third- and fourth graders through The Salmon Cycle. Bud Lane and Cova St.Onge (middle photo, left) help the kindergarten class through The Counting Song. Ninth-grade students (bottom photo) perform a skit in Arabic called Animals. Photos by Natasha Kavanaugh A Poem by Sequoia Breck Creation, is a song that only the creator knows how to sing Treading our ancestor's paths, we make new roads, both following and leading We are the ancestors of our children's futures Fires, destroying and cleansing, healing the broken bones of our forests We dance to the song, not needing to know the steps or the beat, just living aloud The creator has designed a dance for us ... we all play our parts, the creator all the time knowing we will change our parts June 2010 • Siletz News • 13 and
