Posted in Intermediate, Literacy, Reflections and tagged literacy on by Mahima. I spent some time meeting with the district Aboriginal Curriculum Mentor Teacher and I feel ready to carefully and respectfully approach this text and the sensitive topic of residential schools. The story is beautifully illustrated, sensitive, and developmentally appropriate. Another grade five teacher in the district has used the book with her class and between us I think we have created enough resources for other teachers to get started with this book.

I’m ready to delve into this book… I didn’t originally plan to do a unit on this before I started my practicum but after I heard about this book and read it I knew this would be a good fit for my class. I think Fatty Legs is the perfect book to open a discussion on this topic, so much so that I went through great lengths to gather enough copies to have a class set! I have some copies from the public library, some copies from two different high schools, a copy from our school library, and some from the district resource centre! I hope one day the school district invests in a class set of this book as I think other teachers would like to use it. Why is Fatty Legs in bold red printing? Fatty Legs (10th anniversary edition) Paperback Maby Margaret-Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton (Author), Christy Jordan-Fenton (Author), Debbie Reese (Foreword), 177 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 11.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.Why are they not wearing any snow gear when it’s snowing?.Why is one girl standing in front of the others?.

We resisted the urge to try and answer them right away! We will revisit them when we are deeper into the story! Using just the cover illustration we developed a number of rich “why” questions. The group has become excellent at developing questions using our “Think Aloud” protocol… I like to build a lot of intrigue before starting any text.

Fatty legs the book