Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Tuesday's Tackle: Talkin Turkey


This week I have a great privilege. I am being allowed to come into my children's elementary school for the second consecutive year and talk to the children, presenting the American holiday of Thanksgiving. I did some hunting around the house last week and found the visuals that I used last year as well as the notes I had for my talk on Squanto and a brief history of the first Thanksgiving. I will be reviewing those notes and making changes today and tomorrow, between trips to the store for food supplies, straightening up the house, and picking up my husband at the airport tomorrow (my #1 thing to be thankful for this year!). When I was home in the states in June I helped declutter my mother's home by relieving her of her colonial dress and apron that she made and wore back in 1976 for Bicentennial celebrations in our town. I needed to make a new mop cap to go with it so last week I sat down with this tutorial and whipped up a cute cap to wear with my costume. This will be a new touch for the kids who were in the school last year and have heard this talk once already. The school scheduled me to talk to the preschoolers on Thursday (which means I will have to do as much of Thursday's dinner ahead of time as possible so we can still eat soon after the kids get out of school at 2pm) and then two sessions on Friday. In addition to cooking for 11 at the house Thursday, my niece and I will be baking up extra pumpkin bread, zucchini bread and chocolate pudding tarts to share at the school. I learned last year not to even bother to bring sweet potato casserole because only 3 or 4 kids even dared to try it. Oh well, their loss.
If I get my cooking timeline done today I will try to post it later along with the menu for Thursday's spread.
Head on over to 5 Minutes for Mom to see what others are tackling this week.

5 comments:

Robyn said...

That sounds fun! Great outfit to present it in to! Good luck

Anonymous said...

I love the outfit! I just finished student teaching & miss being in front of a class all day. enjoy your presentations! :)

Susie said...

What a neat thing for the kids!! Great tackle and I love the dress!

Svr said...

That is sooo fun. When I was little we went to DC in 1976 for the centennial..you look perfect! I remember we each got a little bonnet! I cherished mine!

I went to my #4's school Thanksgiving feast and TWO kids got pumpkin pie! LOL

Anonymous said...

What a great tackle!