What is Thanksgiving? Do you know where the holiday came from? Do you know some of the myths of thanksgiving?
For me Thanksgiving is about remembering how we got to where we are. Remembering those who came before us to help us get where we are. It is a chance to get together with family and friends and think about our history as well as look to the future. And honestly, for me, it's also a little bit about football. Eating and watching football has always been a big part of Thanksgiving in my family. We have a football tradition, every year we play the "Turkey Bowl". The Turkey Bowl is a 1 hour touch-football game where we split the family into 2 teams and play before we eat. It's all in fun, and it works up an appetite.
What does Thanksgiving mean to you? Why do you think we celebrate it? How do you celebrate it? What are your family's traditions?
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Thanksgiving means to me just being happy with what I have and in joining a nice holiday .What my family does is that we all get together and eat turkey,white rice,and apple pie. We give thanks to the pilgrims for making this holiday and letting my family be together. Thanksgiving is a day to give thanks.
ABDUL To me thanksgiving means to get with your family and have a good time together. I think we celabrate thanksgiving to remember the time when piligrims came to America, and celabrated by having a feast with some Native American. They celebrated together. Thats why we calebrate thanksgiving together with our family. We celebrate thanksgiving by eating, watching and other stuff together. My family tradition is just to have a good time with our family.
Laquesha
Thanksgiving is when you come together with your family and eat turkey and have a great time.I think the holiday came from during the civil war when president Abraham Lincon proclaimed a national day of Thanksgiving to be celebrated on Thursday,November 26.
For me, Thanksgiving is a time when my whole family is together, and everybody is thankful for what they have. It is a time when everyone rejoices, and should be a source of happiness for us all. But during Thanksgiving, we also should remember those who are less fortunate than us. During Thanksgiving, I celebrate in many different ways. Sometimes I visit my mom's family, and sometimes I visit my dad's family, and sometimes I go to special places during Thanksgiving. But wherever we go, Thanksgiving is a joyful time for everyone.
Nancy said
Thanksgiving means to remember all the things you do. Also you can be thankful for every thing you want to you want to be thankful of like I am thankful of my family.
Thanksgiving is a time to be thankful for everything you have. Thanksgiving was made when the Indians(Native Americans) and the Dutch learned to get along and have a meal together. The Dutch brought their food and so did the Natives. My family tradition is that we all go to my grandmas house we eat then the kids go to play until dessert time.
Thanksgiving means to me,is that my family gathers and we give thanks to god for letting us live. Think we celebrate it because the pilgrims were giving thanks to the Native Americans for sharing with them how to plant and live.Some of my family traditions are that me and my cousins play video games until dinner.
For me, Thanksgiving is a day to give thanks for what we have and for family to get to gather around and talk to each other and talk about what we are thankful for.
I think we celebrate this holiday because we need to learn to be thankful for what we have. Even the littlest things.I celebrate thanksgiving by helping my family cook and set the table and other stuff like that.
My family tradition is that we would tell people that the door is always open and you are always welcome to come. We would all gather around the table, say our grace,and talk to each other about what we are thankful for. We would just celebrate!
Excellent comments everyone!
I am at my parents' house, watching football, having fun, hanging out with my sisters, brother-in-laws, nephew, daughter and wife. Getting ready for the Jet game tonight. Good stuff.
Enjoy the day, and the weekend.
Keep the great comments coming....
Thanksgiving is a day when family come together to give thanks to god and other things.After people give thanks they have a big feast with turkey and other food. It was a tradition when Native Americans and Pilgrams meet each other. The Native Americans taught the Pilgrams how to live in America. The Pilgrams gave thanks to the Native Americans by having a big feast, which is now called Thanksgiving.
To me thanksgiving is a time were get together with your family,but mostly it's about when the pilgrims came to America and had there thanksgiving with the Native Americans came
What does Thanksgiving mean to you? Why do you think we celebrate it? How do you celebrate it? What are your family's traditions?
Thanksgiving to me, means when people, friends, relatives, and your family gets together and enjoy the lovely time together. We celebrate this holiday for many reasons. Some reasons are because of the pilgrims and the thanksgiving feast that was first celebrated about 300 years ago. The main reasons for the feast is giving thanks and also enjoying the time with the people around you. We celebrate this holiday with lots of food at dinner, such as turkey, rice, mashed potatoes and much more food. My family's tradition is to get together as a family and share our thoughts about each other and the world. We also enjoy dinner together and watch fun and exciting movies and sometimes play games. Thanksgiving isn't about turkey and eating, but the main part is sharing moments together and enjoying the day.
Jonah L. said...
What Thanksgiving means to me is being with my family and friends and giving thanks to god and our life. What I do for Thanksgiving is going to my cousins house in Philadelphia with my mom and dad. We celabrate it there with my uncle, aunt, cousin (of course), and friends. We have turkey, cranberry sauce, sweat potato, pumpkin pie, peanutbutter pie, and more!
Thanksgiving is a time were you and your family members get together. It is also the time when the Pilgris and Native Americans came together to make peace with each other.
By:Christian Miles Gonzalez
Great comments everyone.
I had a great Thanksgiving. Family, foot, and football. Great stuff all around.
Keep up the good work!
Jason.Taylor said...
Thanks Giving day is when we celebrate the Pilgrams. And all or some of the family or parts of it come to your house. And we all eat food. On my Thanks giving day all of my family comes to my house. Me and my cousin Rainah play then we watch tv like my disc Diary of a Wimpy Kid, also we watched the Doodlebobs. Rainah likes the Doodlebobs. Then it was time to eat. We had alot of food. Like sweet potato, Cranberry sauce, turkey, barbacue chicken that's what I like, And more. And we had cake ,ice cream,and so much more. I like the cake.
John Abad said... ThanksGiving is a day celebrate it with the Pilgrams. Some times parts of tour family come to your house or home. We eat the entire turky. At my ThanksGiving my parents and I first cook the turkey and then we eat it together. Then we haved some desert like a delisou good bread.
For me Thanksgiving is coming together to spend time with family,and be thankful for what we have.To me it also is being thankful for god and our lives.
Thanksgiving was origanally celebrated by the Pilgrims and Native American.The Pilgrims hosted a feast thanking the Native Americans for helping them grow crops and fish(keeping food through the bitter cold winter.)
About 250 years later President Abraham Lincoln made Thanksgiving a national holiday.Today almost everyone in the United States(of all religons) celebrates Thanksgiving.
Excellent comments everyone. Keep up the good work!
I think thanksgiving is to be with your family and eat, Help cook in the kicten. Talk about all the great thing's we have missed in the past, play game's and all the kid's play together enjoy your food with your family. Also to thank god for the wonderful food we have because if we did not have thanksgiving we would not be able to spend our joyfulness with your family. One thing Im very proud of is to see all my family and friends happy and enjoying there selfs.
I think Thanksgiving is a day to say, "we survived," and to be thankful to the Native Americans. We are thankful to the Native Americans because they saved us. This Thanksgiving me and my friends goofed around and ate a lot.
Thanksgiving mean to me a time to celebrate with family . For the Natvie Americans that helped the Dutch colony go though the winter.We celebrate thanks giving for thanks.We make marcroni ,turkey ,and collard greens.
I think Thanksgiving is a good time to spend time and talk to your family. Also, I like Thanksgiving because you can eat a lot of turkey!
But the most imprtant reason I like about Thanksgiving is that you can do what ever you want and having Fun!
What Thanksgiving means to me is being with my family and friends and giving thanks to God. My family and friends gathers at our house. Each one brings a different type of dish and we all sit and share each other’s food. We celebrate Thanksgiving as a reminder of how the pilgrims made a feast thanking the Native Americans for helping them. It teaches me to remember what our family and friends have done for us. In my family, we have a tradition that the day before Thanksgiving my mother puts up the Christmas tree and on Thanksgiving Day, we all gather around the tree to see the first lighting of our tree.
To me, Thanksgiving is all about happiness and spending time with your family. I think we should celebrate thanksgiving because you can spend time with your friends and family. We celebrate Thanksgiving because of the pilgrims and Native Americans. The Native Americans taught the Pilgrims how to plant corn, and traded food, clothes and weapons. By this, Thanksgiving was created in order to thank the Pilgrims and Native Americans. I don't celebrate Thanksgiving, but I go to my Friends house and spend time with them, as well as my family.
Thanksgiving means thanking families for what they done for me. It also shows love and care of what each person did. We celebrate this holiday because of the Native Americans and Dutch. They traded things and Native Americans showed how to plant, which came up to this holiday where they had a big feast and thanked each other. I don't celebrate Thanksgiving, but I usually go to my cousins house and have a small feast, where we can enjoy and spend quality time with each other. Our family tradition is we split up jobs on what to cook where my mom usually cooks the turkey and then we enjoy the small feast afterwards.
The meaning of Thanksgiving and what it means to me is a lot. I think the meaning of Thanksgiving means to give thanks to what we have and posses. The thing that is special about Thanksgiving is that I spend time with my family. Another thing that is special to me about Thanksgiving is that my family and I get to enjoy the food my dad cooks for my family and friends each year.
Thanksgiving to me is when family and friends join to eat and have a laugh.In my house we all eat on the same table. This year i had to say the prayer I was thankful for a lot of things this year like my mom,dad grandpa and the food. that is thanksgiving to me. Thank You For Reading.
Thanksgiving means to me having a good time and cooking food.
I think we celebrate thanksgiving because we can give thanks for the family that cook for us.
I celebrate thanksgiving by cooking food and laughing with family and friends.
My family tradition is to cook turkey and listen to music!
Thanksgiving means to me that family and friends celebrate together and eat together. I think we celebrate Thanksgiving is for family to get together and celebrate. We celebrate Thanksgiving bye eating turkey and corn and a lot more stuff. My family's tradition is Arabic/Muslim and I love Thanksgiving so celebrate it and have a good time.
JOSE C. SAID
ThankGiving is about how family and friend come together and they have a wonderful time together.IN many tradition they have turkey and they have different types if food on the side dishes.In my tradition we have turkey and I watch soccer all of the times.I like ThankGiving we spend time with our family members and friends.It is fun and you get to eat turkey.
I think Thanksgiving is a day when we should be grateful for everything we have. I think we celebrate Thanksgiving because its a day we should remember when the Pilgrims and the Native Americans got together to be grateful for everything they had and had a big feast.I usually celebrate it by going to my cousins' house or my grandma's house. My family's traditions are we eat pie, and my brother and I play with our cousins after dinner.
To me, Thanksgiving means "Families together",I think we celebrate it in memory of the first time Paxtux Squanto joined family traditions with the pilgrims.My family traditions are to clean, cook, talk, and eat.
Well I do not celebrate Thanksgiving,but if i did I think it would be about your family coming together to eat and talk and have a laugh.Sometimes they give cards to each other.Thank you for reading!!!
To me I think thanksgiving is the day you show gratitude and gratefulness for what you have in life.I think we celebrate thanksgiving to remember when the Pilgrams gave thanks to the Native Americans for sharing their ways of agriculture with them.
To me Thanks Giving is about having fun with your family and giving thanks to all that you have.
My family tradition is that we all go to my Uncle's house in New Jersey and cook the turkey. Everybody else cooks something and brings a dessert. Then all the kids run and play Bad-mitten and the adults watch the football game and then we find out where were sitting (because my Uncle HAS to put seating arrangements) and then we FEAST!!!
Except Thanks Giving started when THe Pilgims and the Native Americans helped each other to surrvive and had one big... Thanks giving feast!
Thanksgiving is when family and friends join and have a feast.They have turkey and other delicious foods.To me,Thanksgiving is a great time to have fun with your family and friends.
Daniela
Thanksgiving means to gather around with family and friends and have a good time.
Lin M.said...
Thanksgiving is a national holiday marked by reigious obserances and a traditional meal including turkey.It gives you time to spend with your family.
I am thankful for my family,my cuntry, and my teachers{mrcasal}. Its when you give thanks for what you have.
Corinne Luciano
Thanksgiving to me is all about family's coming together and sharing their love and kindness to each other and Thanksgiving is about thanks too.
*Thanksgiving for me means when we celebrate for the people who helped us a long time ago.By taking care of the land for us.
*We celebrate Thanksgiving by saying thanks to all the people who love us and because they care for us and protect us.
*This thanksgiving my family celebrated by inviting my cosins over and making this food called "cochinitapibi".
To me, Thanksgiving is a time when my mom and I make a tradition to cook turkey, rice n roni, vegetables and stuffing together. While we are eating our feast we watch a movie that we both want to watch.
Thanksgiving for Me is when you go out spend time with your family and enjoy a big feast. You relax with family and spend time with your family play with your cousins. I think we celebrate it because when the pilgrams came over they had a big feast and we still celebrate it today! I celebrate it by going over to a relatives house and spend time with them. This year I went over to both of my Aunt's Houses. One from each side of the family. I am thankful for everyone and everything and Thanksgiving is a nice joyful, pleasing time of the year for me!
For thankagiving i am going to my grandmothers house and the who are going is my mom,my dad,my brother,my nana,my auntand my cousies.
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