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Lushootseed teacher Assistant Oceana Alday

TELA Holiday Concert Songs

Oceana Alday Classroom, Early Learning Academy, oalday
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haʔɬ sləx̌il ti dsyəyaʔya, haʔɬ sləx̌il ti dʔiišəd.

We have been practicing two songs for the holiday concert which will take place in early December. Some of our students know Frosty the Snowman in Lushootseed from last year and there are plenty of new students that  have been picking up on this song. We are teaching a new song for this concert, we have been teaching a song called “haʔɬ pədx̌aʔx̌aʔ,” to the tune of Good King Wenceslas.  All the students have been picking up on that song well. The links to both songs that our students will be singing is down below:

haʔɬ pədx̌aʔx̌aʔ

Frosty the Snowman

Weather In the Classroom

Oceana Alday Early Learning Academy, oalday
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haʔɬ sləx̌il,

Hello families and friends, welcome to the new school year. This year we will be in the classroom full on immersion speaking only Lushootseed. We will also be in four classrooms this year rather than two classrooms. I will   be teaching along with a co-teacher in the Elk room, Wolf, room, Deer room, and the Cougar room on the preschool side at Betty J. Taylor Early Learning Academy. 

This year we will be working on weather terms and days of the week while working on a calendar routine in the classrooms. One of the songs that we have been singing is “ʔəsčal tiʔəʔ sləx̌il,” which translates to “How is the day?” In the context of the song it is being used to ask about the weather using five basic terms – sunny, cloudy. raining, snowing, and windy. The other song that will be taught in the classroom will be our “datilič st̕ilib” which goes through all the days of the week in Lushootseed to the tune of Oh My Darling, Clementine

ʔəsčal tiʔəʔ sləx̌il

datilič st̕ilib

t̕igʷicid.

Thank you.

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