Make Your Pledge with Orange Shirt Day Activity Sheet

September 30, 2020

The St.Amant Jordan’s Principle team and the Diversity and Inclusion Committee has provided an Orange Shirt Day activity sheet that allows for learning and reflection as well as an opportunity for creativity for all ages.
Download Activity Sheet
Decorate your own orange shirt with the supplies you have at home.
Trace your hand, and draw or write something inside the hand showing your promise to what YOU can do to help others feel like they matter. Every Child Matters.
Once you are finished decorating your new shirt talk to someone about how you would feel if your new shirt was taken away when you started school. This loss is one experienced by many children who entered residential school.
Show your finished art in your window, on your fridge, or take a picture and tag St.Amant on social media or email MCommodore@stamant.ca.
Submit your entries by noon on Monday, October 5. You’ll be entered to win a copy of David A. Robertson’s book “When We Were Alone” and a NuTrendz purse.
 

We all as a community can keep the conversation going this year in even more creative ways that are reconciliation in action.
In addition to visiting orangeshirtday.org for educational resources on residential schools, the following links also offer information about them.

• Education and the NCTR

  This is the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation’s information page for educators.
• Orange Shirt Day Lesson Plans – Manitoba Teachers Society
• Secret Path Lesson Plans – Manitoba Teachers’ Society
• From Apology to Reconciliation. A Manitoba Residential Schools Survivors Social Studies Project

  A guide for grades 9 – 11 social studies teachers. “This project is intended to encourage discussion and make progress on the path toward healing and reconciliation by providing Manitoba teachers and students with culturally appropriate resources regarding the treatment of Aboriginal people in the residential schools system.”
• Beyond 94 – Truth and Reconciliation Resource Collection and Teachers’ Guide

  Produced by the CBC, featuring a set of videos and an extensive teachers’ guide about the Calls of Action of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada and related themes.
• Residential Schools: Teacher’s Resource Guide – University of Saskatchewan Libraries
• Project of the Heart – Resources

  “Project of Heart is an inquiry based, hands-on, collaborative, inter-generational, artistic journey of seeking truth about the history of Aboriginal people in Canada. Its purpose is to:
  *Examine the history and legacy of Indian Residential Schools in Canada and to seek the truth about that history, leading to the acknowledgement of the extent of loss to former students, their families and communities
  *Commemorate the lives of the thousands of Indigenous children who died as a result of the residential school experience.
  *Call Canadians to action, through social justice endeavors, to change our present and future history collectively”