Holy Trinity students celebrate Thanksgiving with Pilgrim Native Feast

Kindergarten, first and second grade students at Holy Trinity Lutheran School participated in the Pilgrim Native Feast Tuesday morning.

The students performed songs, played a variety of games and ate a Thanksgiving feast.

 “It just feels very joyful. I feel like I try to get into the role myself, so that’s why I tried to talk a little differently, more like an English woman would. So I can try to feel what would it have been like and just to think how very thankful they were for what they had because of what they had been through,” said Marty King, a teacher at Holy Trinity Lutheran School.

Recently students have been learning the history and meaning behind the Thanksgiving holiday.

 “We have been studying about the pilgrims for the past two weeks, so our feast is the end event of that large study,” King said.

The kindergarten students dressed as pilgrims while the first and second grade students dressed as Native Americans.

 “We wanted the children to get an idea of what it would feel like to be at that first feast. We talked about how to greet the natives like the English would have done. We talked about the different foods they would eat. Of course, we couldn’t have a lot of those foods, but we made it in a way so that they could get a little taste of that,” King said.

Here’s what those students had to say.

“I didn’t know that they knew how to cook,” said a student named Cooper.

 “I don’t know which ones, pilgrims or natives, but one of them had to put fish in the ground or let it rot or something. Then they would know that the soil would be good because that dead fish would turn into soil,” another student, Adelise, said.