Sister’s 1st Grade Thanksgiving Feast

The 1st grade has been doing this for 20 years (since the doors opened) at GVE.  Jeff and I attended Shelby’s feast last Friday and were just astonished at all the food.  Enough to feed all the 1st graders and all the parents (and there were probably just as many parents as there were children…that’s how GVE rolls.)  All homemade.  All good.  We helped the kids down the line and it was just sad and pathetic all the things they skipped.  Most kids got turkey and macaroni & cheese, maybe some pieces of strawberry or apple…skipped the potatoes, green been casseroles, stuffing/dressing, sweet potato casseroles, broccoli rice casseroles, rolls, and everything else!  One day they will learn…

Not pictured:  HUGE dessert tables full of pumpkin pies, pumpkin cheesecake rolls, cookies, cupcakes, etc.

Shelby’s contribution to the hallway art:

 

The children got to choose which 1st grade classroom to eat in, “so that they could eat with their friends.”  They do this kind of often.  I don’t really love this because I didn’t know which kids/parents were really in Shelby’s class and who weren’t.  I’m the room parent and I still don’t know any of the kids/parents except for those that I knew before the year began.   Plus, do the kids in other classes really get together before and plan where their friends will be, or is it more of just a guess or a popularity contest among teachers?  I don’t get it.  Anyway, Shelby chose to stay in her own classroom, and sat with her friend Camryn (also from her class.)

I helped her through the line as daddy took a picture, and sister posed. :

 

Then we all enjoyed the meal together on teeny little chairs in the room where our girl spends most of her waking hours.  It was fun and we are glad we were both able to go!