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blunder1983 · Joined: 12 Apr 2005

Hi guys,

I'm thinking about doing a lesson on Thanksgiving as its well celebrated over here and is a nice tie to the west. However I'm a brit and therefore have no idea what goes on except that you lot in America eat essentially a Christmas dinner with pumpkin pie instead of Xmas pud.

What activities are u lot planning?

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

ummmm....We eat pumpkin pie at both Thanksgiving and Christmas. As far as I know, only Tiny Tim eats Christmas pudding. I've never seen one and don't know anyone who has. (I've known families who eat exactly the same meal at Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's...which explains why they don't eat it again for 11 months.)

As for a Thanksgiving lesson, I teach them to make a 'hand turkey', one of the pinnacles of achievement in art and tell them the story of the first (American) Thanksgiving and how it became a national holiday.

VanIslander · Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 6:39 pm Post subject:

In three years here I've never considered celebrating Thankgiving specifically.

In Canada it's in October. In Korea it's usually in September. Celebrating a harvest festival is a good idea, though doing so in November seems a bit odd to me, and probably more so to Koreans.

Maybe I will do something in the classroom about Thanksgiving next September if I'm still teaching here.

(Now excuse me, I've got a haunted house to finish building!)

ilovebdt · Joined: 03 Jun 2005 Location: Nr Seoul

thu_tinh · Joined: 27 Sep 2006

so the 2nd week of october has been decided to be on thanksgiving because that is when canadian thanksgiving is.
i just want to focus on what are you thankful for type stuff without having to introduce pilgrims and etc because I feel like I don't need to teach that (well I don't think canadian thanksgiving has the same history as american).
anyways i'm just looking for some good ideas for activities, videos if there are any just to sort of introduce the holiday to the students.
I have a poem from the boogles website "Thanks for All things" and the students write about what they are thankful for... will that be enough after a short intro to the Holiday via power point?
Sometimes with these holidays I feel like we're westernizing the kids so I just want to focus on thankfulness because everyone has something to be thankful for right?