Words of the month - Kesikewiku's/Kijiku's

December - the great month

Jijuejkl – jingle bells              

Welima'q – smells good

Welkaqnik – great times      

Mijuaji'jk – children

Wantaqitpa'q – Silent night Welatek – bright

Kesik-winter

Prayer for Love

Thank you Creator of the Universe for the gift of Life you have given me.

Thank you for giving me everything that I have ever needed.

Thank you for the opportunity to experience this beautiful body and this wonderful mind.

Thank you for living inside me with all your love and your pure and boundless spirit,

With your warm and radiating Light.

Thank you for using my words, for using my eyes,

for using my heart to share your love wherever I go.

I love you just the way you are and because I am your creation.

I love myself just the way I am.

Help me to keep the Love and the Peace in my Heart and to make that Love a new way of life,

that I may live in Love the rest of my life.

Wela’lin

-       Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

 Kwe' – Hi

Welta'sit – Happy 

The school year is going fast, it is already Keptekewiku's, and we will be getting ready for Christmas concert soon. I would to say Wela'lin to all our Sma'knis at this time for what they have done for us; given us freedom and peace.  Freedom and peace are wonderful gifts we received and the children bringing back the Mi'kmaq language is also wonderful gift.  I like to tell people that you will not hear this language anywhere else in the entire world.  The creator gave us this beautiful language and we need to preserve it, and be PROUD of it.  Speak Mi'kmaq! Speak Daily!

You can hear in the hallways in our school these days, it fills my heart with joy!  

Wela'lin, 

Tania Gould, Mi'kmaq Teacher

Kwe'! – Hi!

Me'katu taleyin kiskuk? - How are you today?

Fall/toqwa'q is approaching fast and cooler weather is coming. Please dress for the weather. We have been busy practicing the Mi'kmaq words for weather. October is a very important month for us Mi'kmaq people, we celebrate Treaty day, hunting season opens and we also celebrate thank giving. I like the students to know they are Mi'kmaw and that they are proud of it. I like to share the following quote with them, 'I am Mi'kmaq, I am brown, and I am proud." Students love this quote, and for the light skin L’nu, I told them to say, “I am Mi'kmaq.  I am light skin, and I am proud.” Be proud to be Mi'kmaq.  Speak more Mi'kmaq, even if it is only one word a day. 

Wela’lin,

Tania Gould, Mi'kmaw Teacher.