Thanksgiving in the Mother Land

The other day, my American friend Alysia (Lexie's friend Sylvia's mom) told me that there had been a request that we (as the token Americans) come in and give a little 5 minute talk/presentation about Thanksgiving to Lexie's nursery--a group of about 20 kids. We hashed out some ideas, and I ended up writing up 1-2 paragraphs explaining Thanksgiving and its origins. I could have called it:Thanksgiving for Dummies, ah, er, that is, preschoolers. Alysia dropped in to pick up some construction paper to make a couple Pilgrim hats, and a couple Indian headresses. We also decided to bring in some popcorn for the kids to eat. Yes, I did mention that we now call the Indians Native Americans, but partly because there is a big Indian (as in India) population here, and so that clarification was helpful in this case. I kept the whole thing very simple and started out by asking them if they had ever heard of a holiday called Thanksgiving. Then I went on to say that in 1620, some people who we call the Pilgrims sailed from England to America to start a new life there. One of them piped up...What are you doing back here then? No, not really...just trying to spice up my blog.