Turkey Legs: Pre Thanksgiving Meal At School

Its my favorite holiday of the year again, Thanksgiving!

There was plenty of delicious food to go around at Arctic Village School. Our wonderful cooks spent all day cooking two turkeys, 10+ pounds of mashed potatoes, gallons of gravy, tons of stuffing, and all the other wonderful side dishes you usually see at Thanksgiving.

Gretchen and one of my middle school students decorate pumpkin pie.

While waiting for dinner, Trimble, an elder from the village teaches students about hunting Caribou in the old days.
The "big kids" encircled the "little kids" to depict creating a human ring around Caribou. They then moved slowly inward, trapping the Caribou. Hunters would use bow and arrow, or other weapons to kill the Caribou.

Trimble carries off a "Caribou".Finally, dinner is served!
As the turkey carver and server, I was the last to eat- but there was still plenty of mashed poatoes and green bean cassorole!
They liked dessert best.
For the first time on the blog most of the photos were taken by my students. Give a kid a digital camera, you never know what you're going to get.

-Sam