The air is getting cooler and leaves are falling from trees all around. Family is gathering and large feasts cover the tables in many homes across America. Thanksgiving is here! This is a time to celebrate the love you have for everything in your life. You share your gratitude for friends and family and hope you have even more reasons to be grateful next year. Every family and even every home has their own traditions for this special holiday. And every tradition is just as beautiful as the others.
What is a Thanksgiving tradition in your family?
-7th grader Levi Zema said, “Getting all my family over. I also really like when one of our parents gets us money or a present.”
-8th grader Kaylee Hogue said, “Mine is where we will put out a plate of food for our cousin that passed away a few years ago. So we put out a plate every year for her.”
-8th grader Lauren Higgins said, “My grandma not coming.”
-6th grader Evan Low said, “My mom just lets us do whatever we want.”
-Social studies teacher Mr. Salcedo said, “We take a pumpkin, we start like a month before and we write with sharpies things that we’re thankful for. And then when we have thanksgiving we put it on the table and then we get another pumpkin, and the guests come- we usually end up filling like two pumpkins maybe even three. And as you begin to think of things your thankful for most stuff comes out. So it really creates a culture of being thankful for what you have.”
-Choir teacher Ms. Caldera said, “My favorite thanksgiving tradition is probably that my whole family comes together and we eat a big thanksgiving dinner, but before that I also get together with the other side of my family and have a huge thanksgiving brunch which is also really fun. So that’s probably my favorite thanksgiving tradition.”
What is your favorite food to have at Thanksgiving dinner?
-Levi Zema, “Probably honey smoked ham, or basswhipped butter.”
-Kaylee Hogue, “Turkey, just turkey.”
-Lauren Higgins, “Stuffing is probably my favorite.”
-Evan Low, “I think Martinelli’s ”
-Mr. Salcedo, “Probably just turkey.”
-Ms. Caldera, “My favorite is green bean casserole, I am obsessed with green bean casserole.”
What is something you’re thankful for this year?
-Levi Zema, “Probably being here, I used to live in Maryland. Me and my family did a cross-country trip all the way here so we could be closer to family.”
-Kaylee Hogue, “I’m thankful for my best friend Kat.”
-Lauren Higgins, “Having friends.”
-Evan Low, “My T.V.”
-Mr. Salcedo, “I’m just thankful that some of the dreams I had when I was a kid, I’ve come to pass- I’m already living them now. So I’m thankful that some of the things that I believe are already happening. And there’s more things coming. So I guess just, dreams fulfilled.”
-Ms. Caldera, “I’m really thankful for all of my students, actually it’s been so fun this year to get to know all these students and, yeah, I’m just super thankful and I feel like they make going to work fun.”
Thanksgiving is a time to reflect. Just like how New Year’s is a time to think about what’s to come, Thanksgiving is a time to think about what has come, how it’s affected you, and how it’s made you more grateful for what you have. TMS is a great representation of people coming together to deliberate on their year so far. We have all different types of people at this school and they each have different lives they live outside of it. But thanksgiving is one of those times where we push past the bad relationships with people, the bad days, the sleepless nights filled with homework, and revel in how it made us the great people we are today. Happy Thanksgiving!
Ms. Caldera, Mr. Salcedo, Levi Zema, Evan Low, Kaylee Hogue, Lauren Higgins:
