K’é – As It Makes Me

Abstract

In third grade, I introduced the basic kinship terms within the immediate family (self, parents, siblings, and both maternal and paternal grandparents). With this unit, the students will explore kinship outside their immediate family. They will explore furthermore into extended family, Diné names, if they have one, their clan origin stories, how they relate themselves with their community and their homeland. Students will be speaking the kinship terms by speaking, thinking, writing, and presenting in the Navajo language. The fourth-grade class learns a different range of learning abilities, from students with learning disabilities, they are academically challenged all the way to high achievers. They have different learning styles, kinesthetic, auditory, visual learners, and reading and writing. Some of them are at a slow pace and some will get work done quicker. No matter their abilities in their academic learning and style of learning, they are all special to me.