Home is the heart of the family, community, and nation therefore the ideal place to keep language alive. This lesson will provide vocabulary for each room in the home and for favorite items that you can begin to label as retentive memory aids. Mealtime vocabulary is also included to assist your family in using language as an appetizer, main course and especially for dessert. Enjoy feeding language to all who reside and visit your home.
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Language in the Home audio


Nkisi Tehc / Can Do's

​Upon completion of this lesson, 

Tpostomon Latuwewakon/ Listening to the Language
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  • I can listen to the audio lesson to recognize sentence patterns
  • I can recognize vocabulary related to home
 
Wolastoqewatu/ Speaking the Language
 
  • I can recite food items and ask about taste
  • I can practice dialogue using mealtime vocabulary
 
Okitomon Latuwewakon/ Reading in the Language
 
  • I can begin to recognize written text related to kitchen items
  • I can begin to read short blessings of gratitude
 
Wikhomon Latuwewakon/ Writing in the Language
 
  • I can begin to write my grocery list
  • I can begin to label items in my home

Wolas-Talk lesson aid

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Land Acknowledgement

We would like to acknowledge that the Wolastoq Language and Culture Center is located on the traditional unceded and unsurrendered territory of Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet). This territory is covered by the Treaties of Peace and Friendship which Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet) first signed with the British Crown in 1725. The treaties did not deal with surrender of lands and resources but in fact recognized Wolastoqey title and established the rules for what was to be an ongoing relationship between nations.

"We are directed by the government to tell you that the English have no design to take your country or any of your lands from you: or to deprive you of any of your just Rights or Privileges"
(November, 1720, English Treaty Commissioner).

Note: The treaty Commissioners were appointed by the British Crown to negotiate treaties with Wabanaki nations in the 1700s. The Wabanaki nations included the Wolastoqiyik, Mi'kmaq, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscots.
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