Kids explain how to cook a turkey

From local newspaper. 2nd - 5th grade school kids from area elementary schools write in:


Kill it...

First kill a turkey. Then take all the fethers out. Next get a big bowl and put the turkey in the bowl and put it in the oven for 1 hour and 30 minutes at 101° F. Once it is done, put salad around it. Then cut some of it and put it in the salad. Next set your table and eat your turkey on Thanksgiving Day.
—William

25 minutes seems right...

First you get a turkey at the store. Then you put it in the oven for 25 minutes. Finally it's done.
—Dom

Shot the sucker and whish...

First I will hunt a turkey and shot it. I will take out the guts and frie it. I take the whish bone out. I will make a whish and pull it. Next cut the turkey. Take the turkey cut the turkey put the turkey on a plate. Finally I get a forck and eat it.
—Hunter

No nonsense method...

First I buyed a turkey. And I took it to my house. Next I turned on the oven and I put the turkey in the oven. Then I wait 30 or 25 min to cook. I take it out of the oven and I eat it.
—Roman

By by...

I would buy a real turkey and pluck his feathers. He would say pugo! I would skin him. He would say peek! I would say by by to the turkey. We had a feast. It was good. I'm a good cook after all.
—Mia

Let's eat!...

First get a turkey and a oven. from the store. second I am going to cook it. I put it in the oven for two hours. Last it's done Let's eat!
—Austin

Stik it..,

First I wold put the turkey in the oven and let it bake for 20 min. Then I would take it out of the oven and stik thermometer inside of the turkey so I know the tempcher inside the turkey. Finally it is done.
—Autumn

Wait for it to cool...

First you take it out of the bag. Next, put it into the oven for 20 minutes at 60 degrees. Then, take it out and wait for it to cool down. Last, get the table ready to eat it when its cooled down and eat it up.
—Melanie

"Hurrah for Thanksgiving Day!"

Over the river and through the wood,

To Grandfather's house we go;

The horse knows the way to carry the sleigh

Through the white and drifted snow.

Happy Thanksgiving Day!

[Complete poem here. I worked hard on it.]

To everyone

Happy Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Day is an uniquely American holiday, at least the one at the end of November. American families will gather for a big meal, traditionally of Turkey, as well as thankfulness and fellowship.

The holiday commemorates the first Thanksgiving, begun by the English settlers at Plymouth, Massachusetts, to show thanks for their survival of their first winter of 1620-1621, and their first successful harvest, made possible in large part by the Native Americans. The first Thanksgiving feast, attended by the Native Americans and the Pilgrims, lasted 3 days, history tells us.

The holiday was made official during the Civil War by a proclamation by President Lincoln. The holiday is meant to remind Americans of their many blessings and to remind them also of their obligations to the less fortunate. Many Americans will spend the holiday volunteering in soup kitchens, serving up donated turkey dinners. Many restaurants will open their doors to the poor and feed them without charge. Thanksgiving is a day when no one in America need go hungry, except by his own choice.

Each year, by tradition, a turkey is donated to the President of the United States, and his family. Until President Kennedy, they ate the turkeys. Kennedy let his go. Since President Bush the Elder, the turkeys have received an official presidential pardon, and allowed to live, unlike so many millions of their brethren.

I don't want to get in the habit of posting too many videos. The one below will be the last one for a while. It shows the pardoning ceremony yesterday of a turkey named Courage, by President Obama. I hope you will watch it.

I wish all my fellow Americans a happy Thanksgiving, and blessings to our esteemed non-American readers as well.

A special Happy Thanksgiving to the wonderful South African families who are today celebrating their second Thanksgiving because of my influence. You honor me and my country. God bless each of you. Ndiya kuthanda.

And to a very special friend who is traveling again as I write this - you know who you are - Godspeed, and I hope there is enough cake left to take a picture of for you. There probably won't be, since I have already started eating it.