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Lesson Plan One
The Counting Song
Grade Levels 3-6
APPLICATION: The Counting Song will be demonstrated at the powwow during both Chief Jim Billie's and Shana Banana's shows on the Children's Stage. Children will likely see native Seminoles using the numbers learned in the Counting Song while speaking in their native Miccosukee/Hitchiti tongue during the event.
PURPOSE: Learn how to count from one to ten in the Miccosukee (Hitchiti) language, which is one of the two native languages of the Florida Indians.
INTERESTING FACT: Chairman James E. Billie tells a story about the Counting Song. When he was a child, his grandmother used to rest him on her chest so that he could hear her heartbeat. As he rested there, she would sing him a lulling chant that he memorized over the course of time. When he later served in Vietnam, the memory of that chant kept him company and gave him comfort during long lonely periods. When he returned from Vietnam, he asked his grandmother about the memory of that chant; she expressed that she was simply singing the numbers one through ten.
PREPARATION: Listen to The Counting Song (live or on Chairman Billie's recording)
MATERIALS: One piece of paper per child, markers, chalkboard
DIRECTIONS:
- Write the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 on separate pieces of
paper, as many times as needed such that each child will have one number.
- Hand out one sheet with one number per child.
- Write the Seminole (Miccosukee/Hitchiti) words for the numbers 1-10, in
order, on the board.
- Call out each number one at a time. For each number called, the child
holding that number will stand up and pronounce the Hitchiti word for that
number. Repeat with increasing speed.
- Sing the Counting Song as a class.
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