Family, freedom and the spirit of Thanksgiving. First and second grade students from Quil Ceda Tulalip Elementary in Marysville and Chain Lake Elementary in Monroe talk about their family traditions, the first Thanksgiving, what they are thankful for and some of their favorite dishes. (Just cook the turkey for longer than an hour, but less than a day.) Happy Thanksgiving!
Quil Ceda Tulalip Elementary
Caleb Price, 6
What happens at your house for Thanksgiving?
“We eat meat. Turkey. My cousin Matthew comes over. He got a cool game, and we usually play that.”
Mariah Shields, 6
What happens at your house for Thanksgiving?
“So, we invite my grandparents to the house to eat some food.”
What do you eat on Thanksgiving?
“Like some turkey, some potatoes. I like sour cream on my potatoes.”
What is Thanksgiving about?
“Thanksgiving is about family.”
How would you cook a turkey?
“It takes an hour. If I had to cook a turkey, I would make it the best I can. I would get a turkey from the store, and try and cook it, and serve it to my family.
What does a turkey sound like?
“Gobble gobble.”
What are you thankful for?
“I’m thankful for my stuffed animals.”
Tessa Lynn Napeahi, 6
What happens at your house for Thanksgiving?
“Make a turkey and eat it with my mom, my dad, my brother, my sister, my grandpa, my grandma, my auntie, my uncle.”
How do you cook a turkey?
“Put it in the oven, for longer than an hour.”
What are you thankful for?
“My dad, my mom, my brother, my sister.”
Cole Longstreet, 6
What is Thanksgiving about?
“You have turkey and you eat dinner and you’re there with your family. My brother ate two turkey legs. I’ve never eaten them, I’m not that much of a pig.”
What do you eat on Thanksgiving?
“We just eat healthy on Thanksgiving sometimes.”
What does a turkey look like?
“Kind of like a hand, only they have that thing hanging down. They can’t fly, they just can jump, really high.”
What does a turkey sound like?
“Gobble gobble gobble. That’s definitely what it is.”
What are you thankful for?
“Toys, unless it’s a Barbie. Toy cars and candy.”
If you could have the perfect Thanksgiving, what would you do?
“I would make a kid house, and a teenager house, and a grownup house. Actually the grownups could just stay in the actual house. And I’d have a baby house for the babies, and a kid in there to watch them. (I’d serve them) turkey, salad, cheeseburgers, and candy for dessert. And baby food for the babies.”
Zach Jones, 6
What do you do on Thanksgiving?
“Play X-Box Batman.”
Tristen Byrd, 7
What happens at your house for Thanksgiving?
“I can’t really remember, because last time I had Thanksgiving I was 6 last year and all I really did was eat turkey. I like chicken legs, but turkey is fine.”
What does a turkey sound like?
(Makes perfect turkey call.)
What does it mean to be thankful?
“Like you’re glad for something, and sometimes you’re so glad for something you, like, jump around the house.”
What are you thankful for?
“I might be thankful for my brother, but he hits a lot, and pinches. So, I’m not really sure about him.”
Where do you go for Thanksgiving?
“I just ask my dad, and we go where I ask him. If it’s too wet or windy, we just stay home.”
What happened at the first Thanksgiving?
“No one ever told me about it. I don’t know, and I don’t even read my dad’s history book.”
Kimberly Franco, 6
What do you eat on Thanksgiving?
“I like the chicken, I like the rice. I like the salad. I like the peaches. I do eat turkey.”
What is Thanksgiving about?
“I think its all about being inside.”
What does a turkey look like?
“It looks like a round turkey, and it has arms and legs, and it doesn’t have a head because they take it off. And the bones are inside.”
What are you thankful for?
“I like the food my mommy gives me for dinner. She gives me any kind of food. My sister, she lets me play with her toys sometimes. My brothers.”
Natalie Holsather, 6.
Why do we celebrate Thanksgiving?
“Because it’s good to celebrate on that day.”
What do you eat on Thanksgiving?
“Turkey, gravy and salad. I like the, not the legs, but I like to eat the tummy and that stuff.”
What does a turkey look like?
“It has lots and lots of feathers. Chickens are turkeys.”
What does a turkey sound like?
“Bawk bawk bawk.”
What are you thankful for?
“I’m thankful for our city, and thankful for our house, and thankful for the days God gives us every day.”
If you could have the perfect Thanksgiving, what would you do?
“I do have the perfect Thanksgiving.”
Tallisse Solomon, 7
How would you cook a turkey?
“You can do potatoes with it, carrots, corn, salt and pepper. If you want it perfect, you can slow cook it 50 minutes, or a hour.”
What does a turkey look like?
“They have lots of feathers, and they can fly.”
What happens at your house for Thanksgiving?
“My parents, they invite friends over, and sometimes I help cook the turkey.”
What happened at the first Thanksgiving?
“It was crazy.”
When was the first Thanksgiving?
“It was a long, long time ago, a thousand years.”
Sharice Corey-Grimm, 7
Why do we celebrate Thanksgiving?
“Celebrating Thanksgiving for the turkeys because the animals mostly eat them. And we kill them, and eat them. I don’t like eating turkeys sometimes because it makes me sad because I wouldn’t want to be eated.”
What does a turkey look like?
“Sometimes brown, and has feather on the back of it.”
When was the first Thanksgiving?
“It was 20 years ago, 200 years ago.”
What happens at your house for Thanksgiving?
“We eat the turkey and have our big family together. We have Thanksgiving with my cousin Christopher and Haley.”
What does a turkey look like?
“Turkeys are bigger than chickens.”
Jaidon Gahagan, 7
What happens at your house for Thanksgiving?
“I get to watch my mom cook a turkey from the store.”
When was the first Thanksgiving?
“Two thousand years ago.”
Who was at the first Thanksgiving?
“Jesus.”
What are you thankful for?
“I’m thankful for my family and my friends.”
Hailey Johnson, 7
What happens at your house for Thanksgiving?
“So you get a turkey, and you put it in the oven. And when its done, you can eat it with the mashed potatoes, and some of my auntie’s really good green beans.”
How would you cook a turkey?
“You put it in the oven. You have to take the guts out.”
What are you thankful for?
“That the veterans are protecting us and I’m free. If I could see the veterans I would go do that and say thank you.”
What does a turkey look like?
“I saw one on TV once. It had rainbow feathers.”
Lupita Alvarado, 7
What happens at your house for Thanksgiving?
“We have dinner and we talk to each other.”
What do you eat on Thanksgiving?
“We eat turkey with salad and mashed potatoes.”
Teysean Payer, 7
What happens at your house for Thanksgiving?
“We cook a turkey.”
How would you cook a turkey?
“Put it in the oven and cut it. I’m not sure.”
What does a turkey sound like?
“Gobble gobble.”
What are you thankful for?
“Me and my dad went on a vacation to Hawaii, and we did a lot of cool stuff.”
Chain Lake Elementary
Jet Kinghorn, 7
What do you eat on Thanksgiving?
“I like the turkey, but not much else.”
What does a turkey look like?
“They have lots of feathers. They walk weird, but they walk fast. They have a beak, and they have eyes. I know they have eyes.”
What does a turkey sound like?
“I heard it yesterday in music. GOBBLE!”
Who were the pilgrims?
“The pilgrims are like pioneers and they had to go across the country. They made friends with the Indians and they said that this was a new world.”
What happened at the first Thanksgiving?
“The first Thanksgiving the Indians helped them (The pilgrims), then they had a feast at the next Thanksgiving.”
What are you thankful for?
“Food, and this earth. I wouldn’t be here if we didn’t have here. And my mom, and my dad, and my three sisters, especially my oldest one who is in college.”
Brooklyn Krache, 7
What is Thanksgiving about?
“It’s when you get together with your family. And you sometimes eat turkey. And you just spend time with family mostly.”
What happens at your house for Thanksgiving?
“My cousins come over, so my cousins and me play together.”
What do you eat on Thanksgiving?
“Sometimes pumpkin pie, sometimes apple sauce.”
Who were the pilgrims?
“They were the people that came when the Native Americans were here.”
What are you thankful for?
“My mom and dad, my brothers. And my chickens. My mom and dad protect me, my brothers are fun to play with, and I get to hold my chickens.”
What does a turkey look like?
“We have three. The boy is kinda brown, and gobbles. The girl is lighter, like grey or tan. A turkey egg has spots on them.”
How would you cook a turkey?
“I would put it in the oven, and take it out and add some seasoning.”
Sydney Garner, 7
What happened at the first Thanksgiving?
“The pilgrims and the Indians had the first Thanksgiving, and they went on for three days. They had berries, deer, corn bread, corn soup, and they had more things. The Indians brought their own food to the feast.”
What do you eat on Thanksgiving?
“Turkey, gravy, stuffing, I forget the name of it but it’s something with cranberry in it, corn bread, and we have a lot more stuff but I can’t remember.”
What are you thankful for?
“I’m thankful for my family and all my friends, and for my dogs.”
What does a turkey look like?
“It has feathers.”
What does a turkey sound like?
“Gobbles.”
How would you cook a turkey?
“You would take something out of it, I forgot what was. You cook it over 100 degrees. I don’t like corn bread.”
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