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Treaty Tales Free Online Reading Resource

By Jen Storm | Published: April 9, 2020

Today we are doing a live reading of Treaty Tales – The Handshake and the Pipe. Follow along with your own free flipbook version available now.

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Sensory Play Activities

By Jen Storm | Published: April 6, 2020

Sensory play is interactive activities designed to help children explore their 7 senses: touch, smell, taste, sight, hearing, body awareness, and movement. Check out these fun sensory play ideas using the materials you can find at home!

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Accessible resources for adults and children about COVID-19 and ways to cope

By Jen Storm | Published: March 23, 2020

The MFNERC School Psychologists have put together an accessible list of resources for adults and children related to coping with the COVID-19 pandemic. Rather than just providing links, this format offers visual and video thumbnails, as well as infographic and handout previews and other accessibility options.

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Community Working-Groups Meet with MFNERC to Complete Land-Based Curriculum

By Jen Storm | Published: February 19, 2020

MFNERC’s Research & Development (R&D) team recently held a working-group meeting with community members from Manitoba First Nations to finish a land-based curriculum due to come out in 2020. The meeting featured guest speakers—educators currently doing valuable land education work in Manitoba communities.

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MFNERC Training Institute congratulates Occupational Therapy Graduates

By Jen Storm | Published: November 12, 2019

MFNERC would like to congratulate Kimberley Moors, Gabrielle Peterson, and Trevor Wilson for graduating with their Masters in Occupational Therapy. The Training Institute hosted a potluck and cake to celebrate the graduates after their convocation ceremony.

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Back to School Season

By Jen Storm | Published: August 23, 2019

It’s that time of year again—time to get our classrooms ready for a new school year. Some of you are veterans in the classroom, and some of you are teaching a class for the first time. And, some of you aren’t necessarily new teachers, but new to MFNERC or MFNSS and coming into a new […]

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Interview with artist/illustrator Don Monkman

By Jen Storm | Published: August 6, 2019

The illustration process incorporates more than just drawing something. When it comes to sequential art and storytelling, a collaboration exists between the creative minds who try to visualize and then bring to life the same expression, emotion, history, mood, and environment to the imagination of the reader.

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MFNSS and Dakota Tipi First Nation Sign New Partnership

By Jen Storm | Published: August 4, 2019

On August 29, 2019, Dakota Tipi First Nation and the Manitoba First Nations School System (MFNSS) signed a delegation agreement to work together for the success of the students. MFNSS currently partners with 11 communities from across the province of Manitoba to provide the highest quality of education for First Nations by First Nations.

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The Grizzlies: New Movie and Classroom Resources about Healing in the North

By Jen Storm | Published: August 2, 2019

A 2019 movie The Grizzlies, set in Nunavut, shows how youth are reclaiming their culture to heal from the effects of colonization and the Indian Residential School system.

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Gill Net Fishing

By Jen Storm | Published: July 29, 2019

Watch and learn with cousin duo Morley and Darrell Moore

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