Giving Thanks

    What we know today as Thanksgiving Day originated when the colonists had an abundant harvest thanks in part to the Native American Wampanoag tribe. In a religious ceremony that lasted a couple of days in 1621, the pilgrims shared a feast of thanksgiving with their new Native American friends.

    Today, Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday celebrated on the 4^th Thursday in November.

    Thanksgiving is a day of feast, which is celebrated with friends and family, to give thanks for our “abundance” or blessings of those things and people important to us.

    Traditional foods such as turkey, cranberries, green bean casseroles, vegetables, and an assortment of baked goods will make their way to our homes.

     It is also a day of watching parades, and football games; things to do with loved ones, while enjoying time away from school and work.

     How ever way it is celebrated, it is a great day to enjoy good company and great food!
   
  

Raquel Aguilar

Hello from Jerez de los Caballeros!

     Hi!

    We are children from Spain. We live in Jerez de los Caballeros. We are going to send e-mails the next week with our teachers.

     On November, the first in Spain, we celebrate All Saints' Day. People go to the countryside on this day and eat nuts. We play in the countryside. The next day we celebrate Day of the Dead, which is a day when Spanish people visit the cementery and put flowers on our loved ones' graves.
     There is almost always good weather here, so we really like playing in the street.

     Talk to you soon!

New Pershing Pen Pals

     This year, we are adding a class of sixth graders from Pershing that will be exchanging correspondences with students in Jerez de los Caballeros, Spain.

    The sixth grade spanish bridge class is offered to transition children from a dual language program to a native speaker program and is taught by Mrs. Parsons-Lopez.  They focus on improving fluency in reading, writing, listening and speaking

Mia Li an 8th grade student and already a penpal, will be guiding the new students:

L-R, Girls (sitting): Mia, Diana, Odile, Ally and Lizbeth
Boys (standing): Jason, Bilal, Tajh and Nicholas

     These students are excited to begin writing and will exchange letters with students from Sra. Manoli Masero's students in Colegio Sotomayor y Terrazas.



Raquel Aguilar