Word Wednesday: Caribou Alphabet Memory

 

Reindeer in Northern Scandinavia and Siberia, are more commonly called caribou in Northern Canada. After listening to 'A Caribou Alphabet' by Mary Beth Owens, we played a game of memory, by choosing a letter from a mystery bag and recalling the word associated in the story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oQ2jRmJHww

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The kids created their own animated alphabets by art association. 


You can learn more about Canadian history and literature with Farley Mowats first book, 'The Deer People' about his travels in Hudson Bay with local natives.