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November 24, 2009

St. Joseph preschoolers prepare, share Thanksgiving feast

By Cathy Spaulding

Preschoolers at St. Joseph Catholic School rattled off plenty of things they’re thankful for during their pre-Thanksgiving feast on Tuesday.

“I’m thankful for my mommy,” said David Shaw.

“I’m thankful I have a MeMe and I’m not alone,” Bailee Shaw said.

“I’m thankful for the food,” Aiden Walker said.

And they had special blessings for the hands that made the meal — theirs. They chopped their vegetables for the Stone Soup. They mixed their helpings of cornbread.

“This is stone soup,” student Jordan Potts said as she nibbled on a stew of venison, potatoes, carrots and peas. “We cutted the potatoes and we put it in a big bowl.”

Teacher Paula Bennett said students indeed mixed cornbread and followed illustrated instructions and filled their paper cups. The cornbread was cooked in the cups.

“They cut up the vegetables for the stone soup and fixed it with venison,” Bennett said.

Students even “churned” their butter, she said.

“We put it in a jar and shaked it,” one student popped in.

Actually, each student shook or patted a jar of cream three or four times then passed it to another student, who did the same, and so on, Bennett said. “They sent it to their neighbor while they watched the movie, ‘Pocahontas.’”

While the stew simmered in the CrockPots and cornbread “baked” in electric skillets, the kids dressed up in costumes that, yes, they made. Pilgrim boys put on high black hats and broad felt collars. Indians put on wrinkled brown paper vests and feathered headbands.

They then gathered at tables and said blessings.



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