AMERICUS —

ELLAVILLE — The following stories were submitted by students at Schley County Elementary School first-grade students.



Thanksgiving is a special day. Your family celebrate with you Thanksgiving is special. You have Thanksgiving for  dinner. Thanksgiving is on Thursday. My mom is cookiing ham. I have to help clean. I am going to have fun. With my family.  — Madeline White



My family Love thanksgiving becaze we play games and we eat alot of food like a turkey. We eat tyurkey and ham and bake tatos. — Sara Beth Murray



I want to tell you what I do for Thanksgiving. What I do is me and my sister and mom go to my ants home and we have Thanksgiving. When the Pilgrims had Thanksgiving they called it a feast, but I call it Diner and what I like to eat for Thanksgiving is turkey and ham and piy. — Peyton Vasser



Today is Thursday. It is Thanksgiving. I read a book abawt Pilgrims and Native Americans. I play outsid. Dinner is ready to eat and eat. — Syrius Zhang



At Thanksgiveing my family gets together and east a lot.Then we all fall asleep. And then they go home because they need more rest because they cooked all day and night. — Amber  Wohrley



Thanksgiving is a Holiday. you can eat turkey and chicin. You can spint time with your family. The special thing, we do is pray. — Landon Miller



At thanksgiving I like to play Baskitbol and eat terkee. I like to ride my dertbike. — Storm



I am thankful for Thanksgiving. I am thankful for macaroni and cheese. I am thankful for my family. — Alissa



I eat with my family. I wil eat sum turkey and cabich and colardgreens and pie. — Cynterria Walton



Me and my family eat turkey and mashed potatoes and gravy. I love my family. I think that is cool. — Wyatt James



I love Thanksgiving because I spend time with Grandma an Grandpa. an give thanks. an give food too people that don’t have food. an just being thankful for what you’v got. an Thanksgiving is the best holiday! — Charity Smith K.



Thanksgiving is special to us. It is a holiday we spen time with are family. We eat turkey. I go to my gramols. I love thanksgiving. — Christian Skipper



On thanksgiving Day my family comes to my hose and we eat at my hose. I’m thankful for my hamily and how god made them. I am thankful for my toys. I am thankfil for the wuld. I am thankful for my friends + school and when we are done playing out side my friends and family leve in then I go to bed. — Kendall Hale



Thanksgiving is special bease you give thanks. I go out with my friends. We go to the movies. I am thankful for  my family becase they are relley sweet. We eat turkeyand pumpkin pie. We like Thanksgiving. — Phillip Nguyen



Thanksgiving is a time when we hang out. When it is Thanksgiving we eat turkey and Pumpkin pie. I am Thankful for my family. I am Thankful for my teacher Mrs. Law, she is a very nice. I am Thankful for  my school. I like Thanksgiving! Do you? It is fun seeing my famiy. My favite Thanksgiving food is Pumpkin pie. We have fun on Thanksgiving Day. I love Thanksgiving. How does your family selibrate Thanksgiving?— Sarah Maelyn Anthony



Thanksgiving is a fun day. We get to eat pumpkin pie. I am thankful  for my family. I help them get ready for Thanksgiving. I like Thanksgiving! Do you? — Kayleigh Cox



Thanksgiving is a fun day. Thanksgiving is a holiday for turkey and pie. Thanksgiving is a time with family and friends. I am thankful for my family. Thanksgiving is a fun day becuse I get to play with my family. — Rayonna Clay



Thanksgiving is fun. I get to spend time with my friends and my family. We eat turkey, pie, and mashbetatose. Thay are rily good. I like Thanksgiving! — Mason Lamberth



Thanksgiving is a holiday. My family ges together. Thay bring pummein pie and turkey. My  cusen and I play out side. I am thankful for family. — Sam Forehand



I go to eam so we can celebrate Thanksgiving. It fun. we eat turkey and dresing and ham. We can play now. I love Thanksgiving. — Caylee Skipper



My family eats ham and turkey. We play baseball. My brothers play football. My mommy cooks diner. My daddy cooks deer meat. — Alexia Dean



I have ham and I have Mash but tad and I have back beas an + me and my kusin and my bruther Play gamss. — McKinsey Stewart



On Thanksgiving my family is Going to church to Play Football an eat tuckey and Piye. Thanksgiving is a hoilday. Thanksgiving is fun.— Alyssia Salazar



I like haveing diner with mom and dad for Thanksgiving and we eat tercee and mashptaetowes and pumpkin pie I had so much fun. — Richelle Webber



I’m going to my nanny’s house she will be happy win thacksivg comes thin she will eat trkey win thacksivg comes I will be so happy win I get ther. — Maddie Greene

Sumter County

Elementary



AMERICUS — Lauren Shenwell’s third-grade class at the Sumter County Elementary Math, Science and Technology Academy shared their writings on “Why We Celebrate Thanksgiving.”

Wh do we celebret thanksgiving? becas it is a time to give thsnk to the pepl you love. It ic time fo share thanks. and show the pepol you love you care. You get toghett withe your family and have a feast. — Eric Elder



1. We cekebrate Thanksgiving for thanks.

2. anad so we can get our Family Together

3. we give for people

4. we care for people

5. I bring my family things

6. I stay at my house

— Allette



We celebrate Thanksgiving becose we give thanks. Most people cook turkey, dressing, cranberry sauce and snap beans. Thanksgiving is November 21 20 i don’t know. We celebrate Thanksgiving every year, They say iduns made it up. You mostly  turkey out at Thasfiving. I hope you have a good Thanksgiving. — Mukatie



We celebrate Thanksgiving because of Pillgrims. They harvest the food. The farmers do that to. They make sure the food is for Thanksgiving. The Pillgrams do not give there food to us. They us there food because they have Thanksgiving to. We also say what we are thankful for like mom, dad, sister, brother, teacher, and school. — Makiyia Jones



We celebrate thanksgiving because it's a time were friends and people get to gether. Also people have turkey on thanksgiving, ham, poatatoe salad, and pea's. Some people celebrate thanksgiving and other's Don't. thanksgiving is about having fun not just being lazy. on thanksgiving you are sopast to give thank's to people all over the world not just to one person. Anyway thanksgiving is about having a go time. And it is about giveing Joy and food. — Matravian Tullis



this is why we celebrate thanksgiving. We celebrate thanksgiving so that thers a day we can be thanful for all the stuff you have. Because there are some people that don't have as much as we do. It's not about getting a turkey it's about getting together and giving thanks. And then if you don't want something you can give it to somewon who wants it. And then you can sit down all sit down and have a nice dinner together. And that is why I celebrate thanksgiving. — Jasmine K.



We celebrate thanksgiving because your family get's together. And because we give thanks to people. And giving. We eat turkey. We play games. And we pray. Sometimes we go to places. Thats all I do. — Adam



We celebrate Thanksgiving so we can give thanks for all the things to be thankful for. We celebrate to learn about Pilgrams and evrybody use who started thanks giving. We also do it to get to know people in our family. We can do it to eat turkey or give evry one thanks for evry thing they did. You can celebrate Thanks giving in many way but my family only does it one way evry year. — Tyler Hilliard



We cellabrat thanks giving to show thanks. At thanks giving you give thank to all the thing you Love. — Carissa Mauldin



For our family. to eat some turkey. We celebrate thanks. We celebrate giving to. to celebrate happyness. to celebrate what we eat. to celebrate a party. — Phillip



We celebrate Thanksgiving to thank God for food and see cosins, uncles, and aunts and family. Donate food to poor people. Help the poor. — KeTerrian



Why do we celebrate Thanksgiving because we need to eat healthy to grow big and strong like vegetable and sweet peas, sliced carrit. We celebrate thanksgiving to eat terky and you get more time to visit your mom cooks the terkey my dad cook the corn and calit green and that's how we celebrate thanksgiving. — Devyn Johnson



Because it is a traditional holiday that we celebrate. We started celebrating thanksgiving becaus the indians and pilgrims celebrate it to give their thank's. I celebrate thanksgiveing do yous! — Luke Daniel



On thanksgiving I go to my mom's Grandma's house. We have alot of food. Like dressing, BBQ. My Grandpa comes over my ant comes over and my uncle comes over. Well theres more But there on my moms side so not all of them are my family. — Maleiah Beamon



I think the reason we celebrate Thanksgiving is to give "thanks" to everything we are lucky to have. Also to give thanks to everyone we know and love. We are very lucky to have the things we have because some people don't have all of the things we do. I also think a way to celebrate Thanksgiving is when your family comes together and has the big feast. It feels good to your heart when families come together and thank everyone for being there for each other. That is the way I think of Thanksgiving. — Anna Rees



We celebrate thanksgiving to give thanks. We gather to the Dinner table. We say our prays and eat. We come together with our friends and family and what your thankful for. We give thanks to the people in need. We dance have festivals and feats. — Ashton Engram



We celebrate it because we have to tell God Thank you. For the food we have. For the clothes we have. For the house we live in. And for the family we have. That is exactly why we celebrate Thanksgiving. — Emma Worsley



We celebrate Thanksgiving Because it gives us time to say thanks for what we have. Also it gives us time to Bond with our family. Thanksgiving is about what you are thankful for. We can be thankful for clothes. We can be thankful for food. We can be thankful for our pets. We can be thankful for even things we don't want to do. So if you read this you now know why we celebrate thanksgiving. — Rebecca Wood



We celebrate Thanksgiving because it's all about thanks. We celebrate it because when the pilgrams were alive they realy didn't have food to eat and beds to lay down on. The reason why we celbrate it is because it's all about giving and not eating. We celbrate thanksgiving because it's when you come together as a family and be grateful. Like this thanksgiving my aunty Jakie, Uncle Tiny, and my cousin Deneise are coming all the way from Alabama. — Raylin Jenkins



We celebrate Thanksgiving because it is a day that people get to gether and have a good time. Also it is a day that God made for us. It may be ants, unculs, cosens, grannys, and grandmas. Some times it will be two people but, it can be more. There are lots of resons why we celebrate Thanksgiving. Though you may not have someone to celebrate with then have it with some of your friends or other family members. That is why we have Thanksgiving. — Madalyn S.



We celebrate thanksgiving to give thanks to who you love or who you care about. Another reason is because you get to spend time with your relatives. It is a holiday to talk and have a great time together. You can cook turkey dressing and other kinds of food that you and your family would like to eat. When your guests leaves you clean the dishes and they'll leave and you wish them a happy thanksgiving. — Jamiyah F.



We celebrate Thanksgiving because we give thanks. People sometimes have a feast. A feast is a lot of food aroud the table. And some people don't have a feast. But they celebrate. If you celebrate Thanksgiving or if you don't have a happy Thanksgiving. — Talana holloway



Why do we celebrate thanksgiving? We celebrate thanks giving to pray to God and give thanks for letting the Pilgram ship survive the rugedd sea and the indeans giving us food from their big long farms. You know all the food we get on thanksgiving? Thats probably to give thanks to the indeans for giving us this wonderful land with its farms, schools, homes and vehicals. We have always been thankful for some things but thanks giving should be one of them. — Andy Kuipers



Why we celebrate Thanksgiving



AMERICUS — The following stories were submitted by members of Peggy Roquemore’s first grade class at Southland Academy.

“I celebrate Thanksgiving when I go to my Gigi and Pa Mike’s house. I love to ride Pa Mike’s golf cart. I love to ride it to the road. It is bumpy. The real reason why I celebrate Thanksgiving is to celebrate God.” — Taylor Humphrey

“The reason we celebrate Thanksgiving is because the Pilgrims survived the winter and then it was summer. After summer was gone, they celebrated. They had turkey, apples, peaches, and peas. They also had pie. They were stuffed! Then the children played while the grown-ups talked. They all had a good time.” — Sophia Blankenship

“The reason we celebrate Thanksgiving is because I am thankful for my family. I am thankful for dinner. I am thankful for myself.” — Mimi Blaine

“The reason we celebrate Thanksgiving is because the Pilgrims left. The families ate pie and that is why the people get a feast. The families got deer, turkey, and that is why we get corn.” — Will Godwin

“The reason we celebrate Thanksgiving is when the Pilgrims came to America on the Mayflower, they had a Thanksgiving dinner with the natives. They were like Family.” — Mark Driggers

“The reason we celebrate Thanksgiving is because I have a family and they love Thanksgiving. I love it too. We go to a festival every year. The Pilgrims went on the Mayflower to come to America and in their old country their houses fell down.” — Landry Hart

“The reason we celebrate Thanksgiving is because the Pilgrims were proud that the Natives and the Pilgrims shared the land and they had peace to one another. They shared food like ham and corn. They showed them how to kill animals and cook. The reason we celebrate is because the Americans and the Natives gave thanks.” — Noah Sheff

“The reason we celebrate Thanksgiving is because the Pilgrims made lots of food like turkey and pie. They grew corn and we had a festival for Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving means just we love our family and country.” — Rushali Patel

“The reason we celebrate Thanksgiving is because we get to eat family dinner together. We have turkey, corn, and pie. I like pie on a nice cool night. My favorite thing about Thanksgiving is to have pumpkin pie. We all like pumpkin pie and love to play football on Thanksgiving Day.”  — Mary Anne Snipes

“The reason we celebrate Thanksgiving is because we celebrate God and family. We eat turkey and pie. We celebrate the Pilgrims and the Native Americans. The Pilgrims sailed on the Mayflower. I’m happy to be alive on Thanksgiving.” — Rebecca Jones

“The reason we celebrate Thanksgiving is because the Pilgrims met the Native Americans and harvested corn and turkey. They picked fruit and made pie. They put the leftovers in the cornucopia and ate dinner. The 90 Indians also ate, and this is how the first Thanksgiving started in November. We celebrate with family.” — Emily McCorkle

“The reason we celebrate Thanksgiving is because we get to cook a turkey. We get to watch football. We get to hunt. We get to go to Grandma’s house and eat.” — Luke Tarrer

“The reason we celebrate Thanksgiving is because we get to go to my grandma’s house. We eat turkey and macaroni and cheese. I love to go turkey hunting.” — Fisher Britt

“The reason we celebrate Thanksgiving is because we get to go to my grandma’s house. I like to go turkey hunting. I like to play with my cousins while my Gigi is cooking the food. I like seeing all my family.” — Thomas Coogle

“The reason we celebrate Thanksgiving is because we get to go to my Mami’s house. We eat turkey. We then go to another house and we eat again.” — Julia Clare Hubbard

“The reason we celebrate Thanksgiving is because we get to go to my grandma’s house. I eat Thanksgiving dinner which is turkey and pie. I get to see my cousins and play games.” — Perry Bennett

“The reason we celebrate Thanksgiving is because we get to go to my grandma’s house. We eat turkey and dressing. My parents come too. I also bring my pets.” — Georgia Perry

“The reason we celebrate Thanksgiving is because I get to eat turkey. I invite Nana from far away to my house. All of us have a big celebration. This Thanksgiving I will have a new member of the family. I have a new little brother. I eat turkey, grapes, and cookies.” — Blake Harry

“The reason I celebrate Thanksgiving is because I go to my Nana’s house and celebrate. I eat turkey, dressing, and have dessert. We play games. There are a lot of people there. The best part is we say the blessing over our food.” — Kylie Aldridge



Webster County



PRESTON — Beverly Matthews’ third-grade students at Webster County Schools have been working on their writing skills. Recently, they wrote about “Thanksgiving.”

“I love Thanksgiving because these three people are with me to take care of me and love me. God is with me to love me. My Mom is there to feed me. My Stepdad is there to love me. God is with me to love me and to also check on me from Heaven. I say my prayers to him too. Mommy is there to feed me and also to get me to go to bed. She also loves me very much. My Stepdad is there to protect me and to love me with all his heart. And this is the time that thanks comes back to me on Thanksgiving.” — Aubrey Parker

“Hello, I’m back.Today, I’m going to talk about Thanksgiving and how thankful I am. I am thankful for having a bed, house and my IPad. I’m thankful for having a bed to sleep in.Some people don’t have that, so I better be thankful. I’m also thankful for my house. I have clothes and accessories. I am thankful for my furniture. I’m so,so,so thankful for my IPad. I’m thankful for mine because so many people don’t have an IPad. I love playing games on it. I love Thanksgiving and I will give lots of thanks.” — Kiah Moses

“Here are some thankful facts about Thanksgiving. I’m thankful for God, my family, and my teacher. I’m thankful for God waking me up in the morning. I’m thankful that I can pray to God. I’m thankful to go to church and the Lord praise. I am thankful for my family for putting a roof over my head and putting clothes on my back. I’m thankful that they cook for me every day. I am so, so, so thankful for my teacher, Mrs. Beverly, for helping me with my work. She is the greatest teacher in the world. Well that’s who I’m thankful for. I Love Thanksgiving.” — Tyjeria Bridges

“I’m thankful for my classmates and my super sweet teacher. I am also thankful that I get to go to school and learn every day. I’m really thankful for my family. I am thankful for my classmates and super, sweet teacher. Without her, I would not have her as my teacher. She would still be on the green hall, and I would have to get used to a new teacher. I am also thankful that I get to go to school. I am thankful for that because most children do not get to go to school. I would not know Mrs. Beverly or any of my friends. I am really thankful for my family. I am thankful for my mom, dad and sister. They make me complete. I am thankful for my classmates and my super sweet teacher. I am also thankful that I get to go to school every day. I am thankful for my family.” — Summer Johnson















 











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