kweh Mona,<div>tizhamëh! (thanks!) yes! i am planning to come! it should be fun!</div><div><br></div><div>after teaching pre-schoolers this morning practicing their "arm song"</div><div>I'm introducing them to "incorporating <i>verbs</i>" for the parts of the arm. </div>
<div>I-my-arm-<i>grab!</i><br>I-my-arm-<i>shake!</i></div><div><i>they love it! and don't even realize they are </i></div><div><i>getting a technical lesson in basic-wendat/iroquoian linguistics</i></div><div><i>which of course should be the whole point in early education,anyway...</i></div>
<div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">too fun listening to them laugh and shaking or grabbing their little arms!</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">ske:noh</div><div class="gmail_quote">
Richard</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Mona Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mona@alliesmediaart.com">mona@alliesmediaart.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<br></div><div>Among the winners;</div><div><br></div><div><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12px"><b>Richard Smith, Wyandot - Oklahoma City, Clay, Storytelling, Wyandot songs for children.</b></span></font><br><div><br>
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