Thanksgiving Activities

Various classes across the school incorporated assignments and activities with Thanksgiving themes into their schoolwork leading into the holiday. For example, the annual K-8 Turkey Trot, coordinated by PE teacher Danny Martin on Friday, November 22, promoted physical fitness. Prizes were items from a traditional Thanksgiving meal. Fifth graders researched aspects of historical American life for their Colonial Days event under the guidance of their teachers Suzie Campbell and Robyn Walker. Other students, staff, and family members rotated through their presentation space on Friday, November 22, to see them dressed in period costumes and hear their descriptions of Colonial topics. Eighth grade students did career testing through cfnc.org on Monday, November 18. Afterward, they researched careers that aligned with their testing results and completed a turkey-themed worksheet about those fields. Some middle school students In a small group with school counselor Sandra Young focused on expressing gratitude and wrote a letter of gratitude to someone in their lives. They shared some of their discussion items through a turkey display with colorful features of gratitude items on a middle school hall wall. High school Spanish students of Maria Ferrari described things they are thankful for using Spanish vocabulary and created a display for fellow students to read what their peers had written.