Students learn about Thanksgiving
Chrystal Doucette/Columbia Basin HeraldLarson Heights Elementary School kindgergarten students eat lunch dressed as pilgrims and Indians Thursday.
Favorite foods, dislikes shared
MOSES LAKE - Just like the first Thanksgiving, pilgrims and American Indians at Larson Heights Elementary School enjoyed a meal together.
Unlike the first Thanksgiving, though, the pilgrims and American Indians were kindergarten students wearing paper hats and the main entree was hamburgers.
Students in the classrooms of Debbie Sackmann, Barbara Collier, Kayla Stephens and Christie Myrick learned about Thanksgiving and then enjoyed lunch together Thursday.
Girl pilgrims wore bonnets, boy pilgrims wore black hats, and girl and boy American Indians wore hats with feathers.
Sackmann said she tried to help students understand Squanto's role in teaching the pilgrims how to hunt and grow crops so they could survive, and the long trip the pilgrims made on a wooden ship.
"They came and they didn't know anybody," she said. "They didn't have friends here."
Chris Solberg, 5, said he learned the American Indians used to chase birds away.
"Because they don't want the birds to eat all the corn up," Solberg explained.
He said his favorite Thanksgiving food is turkey, and his least favorite is mashed potatoes.
Chloe Stoner, 5, said she learned that "people, sometimes they always eat turkeys."
"It's because it's the favorite food," Stoner said. "You have to cook the turkeys before you eat them, and take the feathers out and take the eyes out."
When asked her favorite Thanksgiving foods, Stoner made a big list.
"Turkeys, and we mostly have eggs for Thanksgiving, too, and mashed potatoes and some juice," Stoner said.
She also shared her least favorite foods.
"Spicy chips for Thanksgiving, and I don't like oranges for Thanksgiving," she said.
Colby Evens, 5, said his favorite Thanksgiving food is spaghetti.
His least favorite food is potatoes.
"Sometimes they taste bad," Evens said.
Kelsi Johnson, 6, said her favorite Thanksgiving food is ice cream.
"Sometimes I don't like potatoes," Johnson said.
Zechariah Long, 5, said his favorite Thanksgiving food is "burger."
Long said he made Thanksgiving pictures as a present for his mother.