Students learn words for trees. Tree, white birch, poplar, balsam fir, spruce, white cedar, red cedar, Norway pine, jack pine, white pine, red-ocher dogwood, willow, speckled/taig alder

Students learn inanimate and animate nouns for food- wild rice, salt, sugar, pepper, strawberry, blueberry, meat, pea, raspberry, bread, corn, frybread, cookie, tomato, pumpkin, chokecherry, cranberry, cucumber, bean.

Students learn words like, "My heart, tongue, my mouth, my tooth, my foot, my stomach, my arm, my hand, my finger, my back, my eye, my head."

Students learn phrases like "It is red, black, blue/green, white, it is brown/yellow," and "he or she is red, black, he or she is blue or green, he or she is white, he or she is brown/yellow."

Students learn Ojibwe phrases for fishing- water rippling towards/away from you, there are white caps, it is calm, it is sandy, it is deep.