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Journal Entry - WEEK 1 Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Fire, opening circle (welcoming new Wolf Kid)
Adventure to the Beach-looking for rocks, shells, seaweeds, oysters, limpets
Lodge- drawings collections, changing objects, guessing what is missing
Lunch- ate seaweed (nori, sea lettuce), oysters, raw and cooked
Freeplay
Skills- bowls, pounding cedar bark for baskets
Beach- digging clams
closing circle Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Fire, opening circle
Adventure in the woods-looking for Grand Fir (to make blocks to shape baskets)
collecting, sawing, chopping
Lunch and freeplay
Skills- bowls, baskets, blocks
Games in the Field- Skittles
Closing circle Thursday, March 13, 2008
Bowdrill (burning in the first set), opening circle
Physical training- run to Weston Lake, swim and run back
(Hana and Zaira made the fire for after the swim)
Lunch at the Lodge
Freeplay
Skills, Storytelling (cont of Inuit story)
Mind training- sitspot thanksgiving
Closing circle |
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JOURNAL ENTRY - WEEK 2 Tuesday, March 22, 2008
Fire- opening circle
Pond- exploring the pond
Building a log bridge
Lunch at the Pond
Pond- cutting down a dead tree, finishing our bridge
Walking across the log
Lodge and closing circle Wednesday, March 23, 2008
Fire- opening circle
Pond- Walking across the log (various logs)
Staff fighting on the log
Lunch at the Lodge and freeplay
Plant Journals (first 5 finished)
Collecting wood for frames
Closing circle Thursday, March 24, 2008
Bowdrill with Zaira's kit
Physical Training -Run to the Point (close to Ganges)
Lunch on the beach and freetime
Closing circle at the Lodge |
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JOURNAL ENTRY - WEEK 3 Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Fire, opening circle
Medicine Plants- find one edible, one medicinal
Talk about medicine and food
Wander- checking trees- sap and buds, Alder, Maple
Collected more Cedar bark
Lunch and freeplay
Skills- stripping cedar bark, bowls
Storytelling- Alder tree medicine storytelling
Games- Moosebones
Closing circle Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Fire, opening circle
Game- Moosebones
Making bone tools- needles
50 Plants- listing 50 plants, poisonous/dangerous, edible, medicinal, useful
Lunch and freeplay
Skills- bowls, baskets, boats and boat races in the creek
Beach- blindfold walking on logs
Thunderstorm- race back to the Lodge
Closing circle Thursday, March 27, 2008
Fire, opening circle
Bowdrill kits- finishing every kit, burning in
Looking for handholds
Lunch and freeplay
Skills- bowls, baskets
Storytelling- Inuit storytelling
Closing circle |
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JOURNAL ENTRY - WEEK 4 Tuesday, March 29, 2008
Log fire demonstration, opening circle
Building log fires, one match
Pond- staff fighting blindfolded
Lunch and fire at the woodstove, freeplay
Story of Malidoma
Sketches of Trees
Closing circle Wednesday, March 30, 2008
Log fire- opening circle
Skills- bowls, roots for cups
Lunch and freetime
Plants (finish first 10)
Throwing sticks
Closing circle Thursday, March 31, 2008
Log fire (unlit), opening circle
Physical Training- short run from Beaver Point Hall
Arrive and make a bowdrill fire
Lunch and freeplay
Sitspot with Tree, drawing
Closing circle on the Beach |
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Wolf Journals
