Discovering Numbers: English, French, Cree
by Neepin Auger
Description:
This board book includes bright, big illustrations of the numbers 1 to 10 with English, French, and Cree names. The end of the book includes a pronunciation guide for both the French and the Cree. Written and illustrated by Neepin Auger, who is Cree. She is originally from the Bigstone Cree Nation in Northern Alberta.
Author Biography (Strong Nations):
Neepin Auger is a Cree artist, educator and mother. Originally from the Bigstone Cree Nation in northern Alberta, she has been painting for over ten years, having studied art under her father, Dale Auger, a renowned First Nations artist and author of the award-winning children’s book Mwakwa – Talks to the Loon: A Cree Story for Children. Neepin graduated from the Department of Education and Schooling at Mount Royal University and is now a full-time teacher. She is also mother to one daughter, Gracie, whom she believes is her greatest masterpiece. Her first books, Discovering Words and Discovering Numbers, were published in 2013. Neepin Auger lives in Calgary, Alberta.
Resource type: Picturebook
Age recommendation: Pre-Kindergarten, K-3
Keywords: Numbers, art, Treaty 7, board book, literacy, 123s, Indigenous Art
Year of publication: 2019
Publisher information: Rocky Mountain Books
Teaching and Learning Ideas
Our team collaborated with new teachers, alumni of the Werklund School of Education’s Bachelor of Education program, to create teaching and learning plans for texts in this website. With audiences ranging from Pre-Kindergarten to Post-Secondary, lesson plans across this resource address a wide range of school subject areas, inclusive approaches, and Indigenous education topics, such as the revitalization of Indigenous languages. As this website was designed with Undergraduate Programs in Education instructors, as well as teachers in mind, connections to UPE courses have been flagged on each lesson plan. These lessons are intended as a starting place for educators, to help you envision ways in which you might bring Indigenous literatures, as well as ways of knowing, being, and doing, into your teaching contexts. Please adapt, use, and share these lessons in ways that are generative for your teaching practice. We offer our sincere thanks to the dozens of new teachers who gifted us with these creative ideas!
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