Our Friends in BC, Canada

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If you had a loonie and a toonie in your pocket,
where might you be?
These students know. ?
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Canada!
A quick look inside the global classroom at
Delmar
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We would love to write to your students Liz
Hello Patti I am teaching at a Xit'olacw
Community School, a First Nations school up in
Mount Currie, British Columbia, Canada Our
school is for Native Indian students - they are
part of the inner Salish group of Indians. We
would love to write to your students and would
like to set up a simple project of sharing our
culture with you. My young students have no
concept of what the rest of the world is like and
so I would also like postcards from your country
to show where you live. We are all busy catching
salmon and picking berries but we are
experiencing severe dry conditions so we are not
allowed to go onto the mountains because of the
danger of fire. This is causing the community
great stress as we need to collect food to put
away for winter. With no rain we also have no
mushrooms. Does your community pick and eat
mushrooms? Liz
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We located our friends on a map.
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A First Nations Community
Hello Patti and the students at Delmar Elementary
School. We would like to share some information
with you about our-selves. We divided our class
into subjects so we could tell you some things
about us. We are grade 7 students living in Mount
Currie, British Columbia, Canada. We are a first
Nations community. Mount Currie has two parts
the old Reserve in the valley is the original
community, and the Xitolacw Site is a newer
community on a ridge above the old Reserve. Mount
Currie is about 30 km north and east of Whistler
and 150 km north of Vancouver. As Mount. Currie
only has 1 corner store and 1 gas station people
tend to travel to buy what they want and need.
Vancouver will host the 2010 Winter Olympics and
many of the events will be in Whistler. Many of
us have family and friends in Vancouver, Lillooet
and we all travel to the city several times each
year.
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Pow Wow
We had a pow-wow today at our school.  We danced
with all the children in our community.  There
were lots of drummers and singers and many elders
came.  We made necklace to give to the elders. 
We will send you some photos. Aneta
This is our second powwow.  We had one at the
beginning of the year too. In the community there
are drumming circles and powwows all the time to
mark celebrations like weddings and births.  Our
favorite thing about the powwow was the hoop
dance.  The dancers have 5 sturdy 'hoola hoops
that they weave their bodies in and out of and it
is quite difficult and entertaining. Aneta
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Salmon Fishing
We are all going salmon fishing today and will
be barbecueing them in the special Indian way.The
students have made special cedar sticks for
this. Liz
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Drumming as a Family
My name is Romuald I am in Grade 3 I like
dancing and I am a Grass dancer. I wear special
regalia when I dance. Ross, my stepmother made my
regalia for me. I drum and I dance and I have a
family drum group. My uncle and aunty and my dad
and step mom, Kenneth, Byron and I all drum as a
family. It makes me feel very proud when we drum
as a family. Washtepo is my favorite drumming
song.
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A Fancy Dancer
Hello My name is Toni I am in Grade 4. Pam is my
teacher. I am also a dancer but I am a Fancy
Dancer and I wear regalia to dance in. It is made
of soft buckskin leather and I wear moccasins on
my feet. My sister Helena taught me to dance. I
do not pick mushrooms but I like picking
berries. Our school is right under a big
mountain and we are close to a river. The salmon
are running and when they have laid their eggs
they die and it smells really bad. I like to go
hiking with my grandpa.
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Our School Bus
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We visit Holly our nurse at the Health Care
center.
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Hiding in the snow
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Loonies and Toonies
From CanadaFROM "Aneta Prettie" DATE Wed, 18
Feb 2004 164412 -0800 Hello Mrs. Spicer's
ClassYes, we have money in Canada. Our penny is
also worth .01, nickel .05, dime .10, and the
quarter .25. We use to have a dollar bill but
now it's a one dollar coin, called a loonie! We
no longer have a two dollar bill either, it's a
two dollar coin called a toonie. (Change purses
are a must!)
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What is a Reserve?
Dear Ms. Anetas Class, Thank you for the
PowerPoint. We liked it a lot! What is the
Reserve? We dont have mountains here. Our 100th
day of school was Wednesday. Loonie and toonie
are neat names for money. We have a cartoons
called Looney Tunes! We have a 1.00 coin called
a golden dollar. When we help with chores around
the house we get an allowance from ours parents.
Sometimes we spend our money. Sometimes we save
our money in the bank. Do you get an allowance?
Do you spend or save your allowance? Please write
back soon! From, Mrs. Spicers Class
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Dear Mrs. Spicer's Class, Thank you for all your
wonderful questions. We are an Indian Band school
which is located on an Indian reservation. All of
the students are Indian but some of the teachers
are not. Included in our education is learning
our Indian language, which is taught by our
elders. Do you know a second language? Our school
does a lot of fundraising throughout the school
year, like selling baked goods in the cafeteria
or helping with lunch sales. We all love gym
class. We are learning about gymnastics. As well,
we love working on the computer. What are your
favourite subjects? From, Mrs. Prettie's Class
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To be continued.. ?
June came too quickly but our exchanges will
continue in the fall.