![]() I am thankful for scool because I can lrn. I am thankful for my houm because it ceps me saf. I am thankful for my haws because I like sheltr. I am thankful for my techere because I love my techere. I am thankful for my frends because thay have fun with me. I love Setu because I love that he givz us preitis on krismas kusIam and I owas wonit to get my fravit prasizs. I am thankful for my famel because thay love me. Chase By Nyota, a first-grader at Eagle Point Elementary School in Oakdale. I am thankful for Food and water and the holidays Family and Friends and toys. Zavihor By Chase of Brookview Elementary School in Woodbury. I am thankful for my baby sister, Olivia. I am thankful for my family and my friends and my siblings and my brother and my sister and my mom and my two dads!!!! - Michelle I am thankful for my mom my family and The people who are going to pick and also The old people and my sister and Miss Hoye. I am thankful for my mom and my Dad and thankful for my brother. I am thankful for my dogs because I like to pet them and snugl with them. I am thankful for family brother friends mom. I am thankful for family and Jesus and God. I am thankful Mom Dad Sister Good breakfast. ![]() Zerenity By Elaina, a first-grader at Ascension Catholic School in Minneapolis.Īscension Catholic School, Minneapolis (Miss Hoye’s class) Thank you again to all the teachers and kids (and family members) for helping us to continue this annual community tradition! London, a first-grader at Ascension Catholic School in Minneapolis.Īscension Catholic School, Minneapolis (Theresa Culpert’s class): Also, we kept the creative spelling intact as much as possible. However, we could only use images in print that arrived by our deadline. Some entries made us emotional, like Julie’s gratitude for the memories of loved ones who have “past away.” And Violeta made us laugh with her well-written sentence: “I am thankful for bunnies,” she wrote, “because they are cute and hoppity-hop.”Ī programming note: We received hundreds of entries and we tried to use most of them (as long as we could understand the creative spelling). What are they most thankful for? Besides “thankful” - a word the students pretty much had to use for our annual gratitude assignment - the most-used words were, in descending order: family, mom, love, friends, God, dad, school, play and food.Īs usual, going through the entries is fun - partly because we could go through them together this year (with masks) - and hey, MariAnna, thank you for being thankful for “the people who are going to pick” (that’s us!). Mostly, though, these kids seem to appreciate people who spend time with them (like that dad who plays “Madden” with his first-grader, or the family members who attend a student’s hockey games). They appreciate swimming lessons and they are thankful for tarantulas. Read on for the joy of jumping on a trampoline, playing tag or collecting Pokemon cards. There’s a universality to childhood, and that never changes. Pandemic trends are illustrated here, too: So many of our entrants are thankful for pandemic puppies and kitties (a bearded dragon gets a shout out, too). And they certainly haven’t forgotten about the pandemic: There is thanks here for being able to go to school in person, and for being able to be with grandparents and other family members again. ![]() They appreciate the shelter and coziness of their homes, and snuggling and cuddling with moms and dads, pets and stuffed animals. Still, these are also children who are living through “plague times” and they seem to focus on themes of safety, protection and survival more than we can recall from years past: They thank “community helpers” and their families and even the Earth for protecting them. This year, more families are gathering even before that holiday meal and kids are giving thanks for daily soaks in the hot tub with their grandparents and drawing pictures of themselves without masks. Last Thanksgiving, before vaccines, indoor family gatherings were discouraged. Because, even as Minnesota contends with a fourth COVID-19 surge, the children gave thanks much as first-graders did in the “before times”: These 6- and 7-year-olds are back in school, and thankful for their teachers and friends. They gave thanks for toilet paper and for not getting COVID-19.Ī year later, the coronavirus is still infecting our daily lives, but it appears to have faded into the background for many of these first-graders. In 2020, when the pandemic was new and no one had yet been vaccinated, children drew pictures of people wearing masks they wrote about distance learning. ![]() ![]() There’s something interesting about the gratitude of first-graders this Thanksgiving. ![]()
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