Warm Springs, Oregon
October 19,2000 7
Kiksht Language Lesson-
Spilyay Tymoo
"Children, I will being doing your language
lesson in Kiksht today, and I will talk in Kiksht
as much as I can, "Do what I do" and then
when I think you have learned the commands
well, I will sit down and watch you. Then, "Do
what I ask you to do." Alright? We're going to
learn your face parts. We only have one rule, if
I say "shaxel ixa akinulmat." that means pens
up and you need to stop what your doing and
lift your pens.
Ixtba Wigwa
Monday
Drawing in Mrs Grahams and Ms Linquists'
Class
Agelga ak'inulmat.
Pick up your pen.
Iquxix imiqaqshtaq.
Draw your head
Liquixix ilminatlxat
Draw your hair
Diquixix idmimtluximax.
Draw your ears.
Iquxix imigech.
Draw your nose.
K'aya Christina, iquixix
imikweshxat, k'aya iquxix
imituk.
No Christina, draw your
mouth-don't draw your neck.
Qaxsda ismikwagwast?
Where's your chin?
Laktba Wigwa
Thursday
ft
Iqtla imiqaqshtaq.
Touch to your
head.
Aqtla amipuxpux.
Touch your
elbow
Aqtla amichk'dn.
Touch your shoulder.
Iqtla itxu.
Touch your arm.3;
Emxwasha itxu.
Scratch your arm.
Emxwasha amipuxpux.
Scratch your elbow.
Tai it'ukdi, Stephan kwadau
Raylene.
Very good, Stephan and
Raylene.
Makwshtba Wigwa
Tuesday
Gwenmaba Wigwa
Friday
Stiquxix ismixux.
Draw your eyes.
Iquxix iyaqaqshtaq.
Draw his head.-
Iquxix gwenma
iyamtluximax.
Draw his five ears.
Iquxix imituk.
Draw your neck.
Diquxix idmelqwtanksh
Draw your cheeks.
Denatl idemtl'uximax.
Erase your ears.
Inatl imigech.
Erase your
nose
Senatl ismixus.
Erase your
eyes.
Tai it'ukdi,
Terrance and Rex.
That's good, Terrance and Rex.
Lunba Wigwa
Wednesday
Linatl ilminatlxat
Erase your hair.
Inatl imikweshxat.
Erase your
mouth.
Dinatl
idmulqtanksh.
Erase your
cheeks.
Qaxia imigech?
Where's your
nose?
Qaxwa amishgu?
Where's your forehead?
Iquixix makwsht
iyagech.
Draw his
two noses
Iquxix
iyakweshxat.
Draw his
mouth.
Liquxix
iyanatlxat.
Draw his
hair
Liquxix lun
isiaxus.
Draw three
eyes.
Qadash shemxutlk iqwalali kwaba!
Watch out for that monster!
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JOHNSON! -
Language Update
To all Parents and Family members
OUR CHILDREN CAN LEARN THREE
LANGUAGES!!
by Myra Shawaway
Greetings! Bonjour! Ola! We could use a greeting in
one or more of another language. Here in Warm Springs
though, our priority is OUR three languages, Wasco, Paiute or
Sahaptin.
We have heard from elders, that many years ago our
great grandparents either spoke or understood all three of our
languages. One story that I remember being told is of an
elder lady, Kfallis, speaking with my great grandfather Mark
Johnson at the commissary where many families gathered to
receive food. They shared laughter and conversation in each
of their languages and feelings of animosity was not an issue.
People of that era seemed to have gotten along well, despite
the history of how we were all brought together, and how we
seem to be today. It is these stories that lead the Language
Program to believe that our children in Warm Springs can
learn one or all of our three languages. Research also shows
that students that learn more than one language have achieved
at higher levels of accomplishment with their academics.
WE are happy to announce that on the Week of Sep
tember 18, 2000, our language program began at the. Warm
Springs Elementary School. Wasco, Paiute and Sahaptin will
be at the Kindergarten and First Grades. Sahaptin will con
tinue with the Second and move into the Third grades. We
understand that families desire to have their children learn a
specific language; so the language program will be schedul
ing time for after school classes for children and their parents
to attend. We would like to serve all people in their desire to
learn their family language. WE also want to encourage
families to be open to learning more than just their family
language. This would be a wonderful way to support our
children to maintain and encourage what the CONFEDER
ATED Tribes of the Warm Springs Indian Reservation stands
for.
Following are the class schedules for each language:" "
BEGIN WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 25, 2000
WASCO: Monday nights, 6-7 PM
PAIUTE: Wednesday after school 3:30-4:30 PM
SAHAPTIN: Tuesdays and Thursdays after school 3:30-4:30
PM
Simnasho classes: Tuesdays and Thursdays (at Simnasho
longhouse) 6-7 PM
All classes will be held at the trailer behind the Education
Building (old boys dorm).
Welcome Deanie Johnson
By Valerie Aguilar
We would like to welcome at this time Deanie
Johnson who will be the new Full time wasco teacher. Deanie
comes to us with 2 years langauge learning experience and
has excelled in her Language Studies is confident she can
teach our little ones the basics of the Wasco Langauge. She is
ambitious and works daily on building her language fluency.
She says"I am thankful for the two elders that are patient and
make the language fun to learn, and one day I hope to be like
them."
TPR
By Christina Abreo
In the past four weeks the kindergarten and first
graders at Warm Springs Elementary school have been
learning the native languages through a teaching approach
called Total Physical Response (TPR). The languages are
taught by giving the children commands that are first acted
out by the language instructor and then repeated by the
children. This has been highly effective.
So far this year the children are able to respond to
complex commands that are imperative to classroom
management. Not only are they able to respond correctly,
they are also giving the commands to each other. Their
pronunciation is accurate and, more importantly, they
understand the concepts behind complex commands such
as "everybody at the red table stand up and go stand by the
door." We have seen that whenever a child who sits at a
different color table stands his classmates are quick to
point out which color his table is.
These are complex commands in ANY language for
busy grade schoolers. Encourage your child's language
learning. Ask him questions about things that are around
the house. You will be surprised w ith how much he knows.
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