“语言来自环境。用它发出的声音叫naamoo（蜜蜂），否则它不会认得你。”

〜长者Reg Crowshoe

Piitoayis Family School的学生和教师今年开始实施以土地为基础的学习作为日常教学和学习的一部分，与Na'a联系并向其学习。全年的探究问题“我是谁？”每天都在探讨，并贯穿于教学和学习的各个部分。

到目前为止，我们得到了如此宜人的天气来与土地亲近。在户外，学生们奉上烟草，并将鼓、歌曲和语言与土地联系起来。这对于全面的学习方法至关重要；当孩子们能够关注自己的精神时，他们更愿意积极参与学习。

“Mookaakit iikaakiimaat（坚持努力）”是我们每天Piitoayis Family School祷告的重要部分，现已成为我们学校发展计划中关于学习福祉目标的基础。学生们了解自己是谁，以及他们如何归属，那些学生更好地准备好参与学习。

知识传承人Darcy TurningRobe每周在鼓班教学中提醒学生们，他们是领导者，他们与过去和未来联系在一起，他们与土地相连。 Ninastiko的口述文本，关于鼓的起源和舞蹈的故事，从一个知识传承者传递给未来的知识传承者，支持学生与土地以及他们自己的联系。

Blackfoot语言教师Sandra Manyfeathers每周提醒学生们，他们彼此相连，与家人和祖先相连，并且这种语言在他们体内等待着重新唤醒。她提醒他们在学习中冒险，并坚持努力，他们作为语言学习者和了解他们自己作为学习者正在取得进展。

PFS学习者是谁？土地。语言。自信。相连。土著。

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“Language comes from the environment. Call naamoo (the bee) by the sound it makes or it won’t recognize you.”

~Elder Reg Crowshoe

Piitoayis Family School students (PFS) and teachers have, this year, taken up land-based learning as a part of everyday teaching and learning, connecting with and learning from Na’a. The year-long inquiry question, “Who am I?” is explored every day and weaved into every part of teaching and learning.

Thus far, we have been gifted pleasant weather for being with the land. While outside, students offer tobacco and connect drum, song, and language to the land. This is essential in a holistic approach to learning; when children are able to attend to their spirit they are more ready to engage in learning.

“Mookaakit iikaakiimaat (persevere and try hard)” is an essential part of our daily PFS prayer, and has now formed the basis of our School Development Plan’s well-being for learning goal. Well students, students who are able to identify who they are and how they belong, are better prepared to engage in learning.

Knowledge Keeper Darcy TurningRobe reminds students weekly during drum residency teachings that they are leaders, that they are connected to both the past and the future, and that they are connected to the land. The stories, oral text, of Ninastiko, the origins of the drum, and dance, passed from one knowledge keeper to the knowledge keepers of the future, support students in connecting the land and to who they are.

Blackfoot language teacher Sandra Manyfeathers reminds students weekly that they are connected to one another, to family, and to ancestors, and that the language is in them waiting to wake back up again. She reminds them to take risks in learning and that in persevering and trying hard they are making progress as language learners and in understanding who they are as learners.

Who are PFS learners?      Land.  Language.  Confident.  Connected.  Indigenous.

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