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ArtsSmarts/Génie Arts Project at C.E. Webster Public School - Toronto

First Nations artist Shannon Thunderbird and her creative partner Sandy Horne developed this project with teachers Brenda Mennie, Catherine Watts and Jennifer Schaffenburg for grade 4/5 students. Linking to curriculum requirements in aboriginal education, environment, music, drama, history and ecology, the project involved building a forty stone medicine wheel on school property anchored by an Inukshuk.

Each unique individual involved in the project was represented in the project that tied into environment and character education teachings, such as courage, respect or being good enough.

The students drummed and sang in both English and Ojibway as they were transformed into a choir to entertain everyone at the Yawkk (feast). The students wrote their own wonderful song lyrics to express how they felt about the whole process in an original song entitled Medicine Wheel.

Visit Shannon Thunderbird's school site and scroll down to view a video clip of the C.E. Webster Public School Medicine Wheel teachings celebration.





Prologue to the Performing Arts is an ArtsSmarts/GénieArts national partner of like-minded organizations committed to improving the lives and learning capacity of young people in Canada by encouraging and supporting the engagement of artists, teachers and students in collaborative artistic activities that are linked to educational outcomes.

For more information contact:
Susan Habkirk, Prologue to the Performing Arts’ Executive Director 416-591-9092 x. 223