Thanksgiving is a time of reflection for adults and children alike. The Chaska Herald asked the first graders at Chaska Elementary and the students at the World Learners School what they are thankful for this holiday season.

“What are you thankful for?”

 

CHASKA ELEMENTARY

 

I am thankful for the wol wide wrld evi (even) god.

Andrew

 

I am thankful for me.

Daniel

 

I am thankful for my hoos (house).

Abby

 

I am thankful for ll plnit (the planet).

Dominick

 

I am thankful for mom.

Megan

 

I am thankful for being nise to frends and my famley.

Elle

 

I am thankful for my mom and my dog.

Natalie

 

I am thankful for pok (parks).

Ricardo

 

I am thankful for me.

Nicolas

 

I am thankful for fod (food) tooey (turkey).

Sammy

 

I am thankful for the mac and jes (mac and cheese).

Logan

 

I am thankful for my famle and my haws.

Jake

 

I am thankful for my home anb my toys.

Samantha

 

I am thankful for I myth (myself) for hup (help) clen (clean).

Kayla

 

I am thankful I ken (clean) up.

Luke

 

I am thankful my hos and thachgiven (thanksgiving).

Lindsey

 

I am thankful fur my biyek.

Zachary

 

I am thankful for hcarfn (sharing).

Kristin

 

I am thankful for the world. I am thankful for the fod. I am thankful for the wotre. I am thankful for the thogs (things). I am thankful for God. I am thankful for my mom and dod. I am thankful for the presdens (presidents).

Jack

 

I am thankful for my famlee.

Anna

 

I preset cusis (cousins).

Estefany

 

For my famle and my gamo and gapo. I am thankful all my gmas and all my gapo. I am thankful and I am thankful god and jesis and my home.

Brianna

 

For my dog becus she licks me all over. For my mom becus she looks like a sweetie. For my dad becus he makes funny fases at me.

Katy

 

Famaley and frends. God beckus hey gav us owr famaley and my famaley loves me. And for my dog beckus hey awys jumps on me.

Nicole

 

Im ten (thankful) for all teh mane (money) I hav. Im ten acvi for mi famlie tha help my.

Brandon

 

I am thankful for my fres tha are my ares thay are Joslyn, Kira, Leixy. We get to get. We love to payl.

Jocelyn

 

I am thankfull for my cats! I like to play with my cats. I have 2 cats. What do you think?

Nicolas

 

I am thankful fo my mom and dad and mi grandma and grandp becas tha are fun to pla with.

Bo

 

I am thankful for my frens. I am thankful for my famoll. I am thankful for good (God) pecos (because) he wac ovr for me.

Kira

 

I am thankful becous I have a lot of frands becous I am frandle. I am thankful for my family. I am thankful for my cat.

Zach

 

Fr mi mom ce is nis ce kuks n ce taks kar uv me.

Ivan

 

I am thankful for my famolly and I my thankful for my dog and I am thankful for my chechr. Pcus wiy she is gut and she gav us jallevaje.

Gerson

 

I am thankful if my faml bcs wy go on trips.

Johnny

 

I’m facfol for mi fod. I’m facfol for my famie. I’m facfol for tecr cus she is rele nis.

Cassie

 

I am thankful for my female bekas my female tak kar of me. I am thankful for my dad and mom beku thay play with me.

Ben

 

I am thankful for the animals tha ar nes.  Tha ar col. I wont to see tem at tar habtats.

Mitchell

 

I am thankful for my toz and my famly and my my sutstr and I am thankful my fraz and my techr. Techr is kiot.

Angel

 

God bekus he wochis me. Love bekus I sau with my femaleu. Femaleu bekus my thau love me.

Lexi

 

I am thankful for my famle becus they help my with homwrc and they giv me love too and they giv me fod and my frens too.

Isabelle

 

I am thankful for my frens and I my thankful for mom and dad and I my thankful for pepl.

Elizabeth

 

I am ticou wit tixs (things). I am ticou with cat. I am ticou wis zirs.

Dayanara

 

I am thankful techrs becs they fare nis to me a I’m thankful for the hol erfe be cos I’m fare nise to thim this I’m thankful for.

Erin

 

For my family.

Nestor

 

I am thankful Fr cats bce th lk to crow my dogs lk to play.

CJ

 

For my frins and my mom and dad and my 2 dog and food and aor tat we brete.

Addie

 

For my techr.

Faith

 

Fer chigoobed (gingerbread).

Matthew

 

I am thankful for be suckfll to ar pepil.

Damarie

 

I am thankful I’m I mi skol.

Adrien

 

For a howse and for closes and my mom and dad and my dog and my firens and my cats and food and shoes.

Haley F.

 

I like to play with my friends.

Max

 

Be repefl (respectful) fo the fou (food) an for the pel (people) and fr th pepl ran wrlu (world).

Joseph

 

Hi my name is Paige and I am thankful for skateboard.

Paige

 

I lik to go my gram.

Joslyn

 

I am thankful for food and I am also thankful for teachers.

Aaron M.

 

For food and my house and my school that I go to and my cat and my famley and my friends.

Noelle S.

 

I am thankful for my mom and my dad.

Jazmin

 

For my money and cimny (chimney).

Tom

 

Hi my name is Myles. I am thankful for brounes (brownies).

Myles T.

 

I fur buyn tcre (turkey).

Mauricio

 

For my fren.

Brian

 

For my colisins and my ontes and okcols and my grandmas and grandda and I love them.

Courtney

 

I am thankful for my mom and dad and that I went somewhere.

Gruslan

 

I am thankfull for a home be cos if a sterajer coms in I wod be saf.

Matthew

 

For my sister who plays soccer with me.

Brittney

 

WORLD LEARNERS SCHOOL

 

I am thankful for food and selter and my frends and the city people thet save my life and help me when when I need my mom and she is missing. I am thankul for my family ants uncls and cusins. I love my family.

Ruth

 

I’m thak for my frends. I am thak fo my dog and cat. I am thankful for my techr. I am thankful for mom and dad. I’m thankful fur my stuft anumuls.

Bella

 

I am thankfull from all the care and the love my mom and dad giv me and my teachers and their so nice. I am six.

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What I am thankful for. I am thankful for food. I am thankful for water. I am thankful for helth. I am thankful for shelter. I am thankful for friends. I am thankful for my family. I am thankful for clothes. I am thankful for school.

Gabi

 

What I’m thankful for. I’m thankful for life, freedom, my brain, and food, bones and beas, trees and lumbr and body parts, god, santa, pumkin man, president, my name Shawn, wool, fur, animals, stone and bricks, steel.

Shawn

 

I am thankfull for my pencil end my paper. I am thankfull for my neighbor end my family end for my food end my water end for my books.

Lily

 

I am thankfull for skool so kids kene have education and the food so we kene live. And I am thankfull for the wartr and are mom and dad. And are howes and we are thankfull for the trees so we can breathe and so we kene have paper and we are thankfull for gode. And we are thankfull for jesus kuse if gode and jesus was note here we wodint be her rite nowe so we are rily lucky that gode and jesus and we sade rily take care of the world.

Bronwyn

 

I am thekful for my teacher and my classmates to and for my room and my materials. I am thek for my stuff I have. If they was no math I will scream rrrrr!! Because math is fun. The end. All done yes!!!

Brianna

 

I’m thankful for food aire clothe shelter beautiful howes to live in. I’m thankful for trees to make paper and air. I’m thankful for being yourself freedom. I’m thankful for holadays the woruld wood to beld howes. I’m thankful for citys books to read bages to holed food. I’m thankful for toys brefast lunch and dinner to live. I’m thankful for water moms and dads. I’m thankful for god and jises for peple. I’m thankful for a happy place to be in. I’m thankful for plans work at school to have summer. I’m thankful for weekens homework for home to get smort.

Kara

 

I am thankful for food to eat. I am thankful for shelter to be protected. I am thankful for electrioty. I am thankful for a family to keep me loved. I am thankful for a docter to keep me healthy. I am thankful for firefighters and policemen to keep are world safe. I am thankful for a president to control are world. That is what I am thankful for.

Emma

 

I am thankful for my clothes. I am thankful for shelter. I am thankful for food we eat. I am thankful for school and noledge. I am thankful for trees plants water. I am thankful for my life. I am thankful for animals. I am thankful teachers.

Gillian

 

We are thank full for are fooo and water. We are thank full for are moms and dads. We are thank full for are clos. We are thank full for homes. We are thank full for freinds. We are thank full for trees. We are thank full for god. We are thank full for names.

Bella and Branna

 

I am thankfull for my food and for my water and for my shelter. I love thanfullnis from my mom and from my dad and I am thankfull for my teacher. The end.

Kayla

 

Everyone has somthing to be thankful for. I’m very thankful for my school. People don’t relise that they have many things to be greatful for.

Everyone has somthing to be greatful for. People will disagre with that, and say, “Kids in Africa live in povrity how can they be thankful?” Kids in Africa are the most happiest people I’ve evry heard of. So if they have something to be greatful for everyone should.

I am very thankful for my school. Allot of kids’ parents can’t aforde for them to get egogated and go to school. And that I go to a monasory school I am even more thankful. I get to learn allot more then most kids do.

I am also thankful for my family, they suport me and the fact that I have two parents that love me and care for me is amazing. Even though I have a lot of people in my family and it’s sometimes hard I love them and they love me.

I’m also thankful for my food. Kids every day die from hunger. I’ve gone to feed my starving children and seen videos on starving children and relise how lucky I am.

I’m also thankful for my house it protects me and my family allot of kids don’t have one and then again I’m so lucky I have a house.

People don’t relise that they have many things to be greatful for. I think that you should sit down this thanksgiving and relise what your really thankful for.

I could keep on going on how many things I’m greatful for but that would take forever. I am greatful for many things.

Ali

 

I em thankfull for my family and frens.

A.J.

 

Thanksgiving is a time to think about what your thankfull for. I’m thankful for my family for being alive and being free.

I’m thankful for the feood at Thanksgiving especially the turkey and the sweet patatoe torte. I also like it because my family comes and its fun.

I think my family is fun to play with. Their also fun to be around.

I’m glad I’m alive, are you? Some kids aren’t alive because of abuse and they don’t have family so we should be glad we have fmily.

I’m glad I’m free but freedom is a right.

Andy

 

I am thankful for a lot of things. One of them is my parents and friends. Food is very important. They help you live. Home are very importent too.

My friends are very cool. But sometimes they arent that fun to be around. But otherwise they are awesome. My parents have jobs so they can buy food and houses for us to live in.

Some people live out on the streets. Some people call them hoboes. Are class goes to Feed my Starving Children to help that situation. We also have a food drive. It is were we get food in a can and put it in a box and send it away to places were people are pore and starving. It is said what happens to those people ween there homes are taken away.

In Africa people make there homes out of dirt and stiks. They have to shoot animals to get their food. To kill the animals they have to use pontey stiks. They make lots of things by hand.

I am thankful for all the things that I have.

Nikki

 

I’m thakfull for is my frends, my teachr, and my family, and my pets, and the Earth.

Ryan D.

 

I’m thankful for my family, food, my pets and books.

The reason I’m thankful for my family is because they are my family. I’m thankful for my mom because she can cook me food and take care of me. I’m thankful for my dad because he gives really great hugs and he makes me feel better when I’m sad and he’s also very funny. I guess since I’m saying I’m thankful for my family I should say I’m thankful for my brother. The only reasons I’m thankful for my brother is that he is nice sometimes and he is fun to play with sometimes… J

I am very thankful for food because if we didn’t have food we would starve to death. Two of my favorite things my mom cooks for me is her rigatoni and her chicken enchiladas. Two of my favorite things my dad makes are his tacos and his hamburgers.

I am also thankful for my pets because there like your little best friends. I have two cats. An orange, fat tabby cat named Sprite, he’s my cat. And a small, black cat named magic he’s kind of my brothers cat. And hopefuly a ferret, chinchilla or a sugar gliders soon!

I’m very very thankful for books. I love to read books. My favorite book by Stephenie Meyer it is called Twilight.

Over all I am very thankful to be alive.

Kela

 

I am thankful for clothing that keeps me warm, the food that keeps me heathy, the clean water, and shelter.

I am thankful for clothing because some people don’t have it. We don’t have to work hard on it. They don’t have anything to protect them from the sun. They don’t have any warmth.

I am thankful for food. Because other people starve to death sometimes. They work hard to grow and hunt food. We have plenty of food to eat. We don’t starve to death.

I am thankful for clean water. Because other people have to drink from rivers, lakes, and ponds. They can die from bad stuff in the water. The clean water keeps us healthy. We have clean water to even keep us clean!

I am thankful for shelter. Because other people have to make their homes out of sticks and mud. Deadly animals can get at them easy. We are safe from animals. We stay warm.

Shelby B.

 

I am thankful for the time my family is together. I am glad that my dog is healing up from the wound he got in Duluth. I am really glad that my aunts uncles and my two younger cousins can be together with my family. We spent thanksgiving with each other.

William

 

1. I’m thankful for the first meal. 2. I’m thankful for parents. 3. I’m thankful for family.

Breanna

 

I am thankful for a lot of things, some of them are my family, my friends, and for life. There are a lot more but those are some of them.

I am thankful for my family. If I didn’t have them I would be lonely, and without friends I would be really bored, and without life I wouldn’t be living so I am glad that they’re things have been given to me.

The things I am grateful for are my family, friends, and life. I hope you enjoyed my story. Thank you.

Liz

 

I am going to talk about things that I’m thankful for. I know that I’m lucky because in some parts of the world people can’t afford to eat and have a home. Here’s some things.

I am thankful for all the food I get to eat to stay living. I am thankful for the home I live in, the family I have, the friends I have and the places I get to go. I am thankful to have a school to go to.

There are a lot more things I am thankful for that I can’t think of. Happy Thanksgiving!

Nicolas

 

I am thankful for famle. I am thankful for fud. I am thankful for frs. I am thankful for pet.

Janelle

 

I am thankful for my freinds because they are always kind to me and when I get hurt they go and get help. It would be hard without them. I am also thankful for my teacher, Carrie R. since she is so nice and teaches fun things.

Samantha

 

I am thankful for my famley becuse I no that they lvoe me and I love them too. And I am thankful for fernds, throt, fouce, dog, fish, mom, dad, touge, barther, colthes, bed, boteay, hanes, feet, food, house.

Maddie

 

What I’m thankful for this thanksgiving. Family, freinds, shelter, clothes, and most of all being loved.

Mikayla

 

I am tankful for my mom and dad. I am tankful for my too sisters and one brother. I am thankful for my too cats.

Abby

 

I am thankful for my dog becus she is a good golden retriver.

Cameron

 

I’m thankfull for my game boy becus when ever I’m board at home it’s something to do.

Jake

 

This thanksgiving I am thankful for frinends and famliy and pumkin pie and that every one can come.

Leah

 

I am thankfull for my family and friends. I am thankfull for my food and shelter. I am thankfull for my life. I am thankfull for air and water. I am thankfull for my clothes.

Claire

 

I am thankful for a lot of things. I’m thankful that I have so much food that I wast some. I’m also thankful for a roof over my head. I’m also thankful for the love of my parents. Finally I’m thankful for my pets.

I get three meals every day. When I was little I didn’t realize how lucky I was because I didn’t know other people didn’t get three meals every day. Now I know that people around the world are dying because they don’t get enough food. I help those people by going to Feed My Starving Children when I can and give to local food drives.

I’m lucky because I have a house to provide shealter me and my family from the elements. There are some people that are losing their homes to foreclosure. If you don’t have a house it makes it harder to find a job so they don’t get a lot of money.

I have two parents that love me, wich means a lot to me. Some kids only have one parent to lvoe them while others don’t have any. A parents love makes kids happy because they know there’s always a person they can talk to. If kids don’t have parents and they have a problem, it makes it seem like there all alone. Thats why I love my parents.

I’m glad that I have pets to give me company when I want to be alone from people. I have a lot of pets and I know some people don’t have any. I feel bad for people who don’t have something to cuddle with or something to protect you at night. I’m glad to have pet because they make me more responsible.

I’m glad to have everything I have. I also feel bad for the people who don’t have the things I have. Now writing this essay I realize how lucky I really am.

Caroline

 

I am thankful for alot of normal things. My home, family, friends, and food. But I’m also greatful for the little things like: birthdays, seasons, and holidays. I have thankfull for many things.

One of the things I am thankful for is my family. I love my family because they are always there for me. I love my mom because she helps me through the rough times. I like my dad because he’s always making me laugh. And I love my sister because she is fun to be with. I love my family!

The next thing that I am thankful for are my friends. They are so cool and fun to hang out with. I like my friend Johannah because she’s really funny. I like my friend Elisa because shes really nice. I am very greatful for my other friends because they are just fun and awesome. I love my friends!

I am thankful for a lot of things. Every one is thankful for something! This is a great time of year to be thankful!

Alison

 

I’m thankfull for my parent’s. I’m thankfull for my brother and food and all the things that are special to me and my family. They’re all special to me because: food keep’s me alive and healthy. And my parent’s help me with homework and they do all my chores for me practicaly so I’m very thankfull for that! And then my brother. My brother is a bit of a pain in the neck but other wise he’s funny, cute anoying but pretty sweet! I’m thankfull for my cat because he’s funny and active and histaricaly funny when he sleeps! He can say mama no I’m serious realy if in the morning he realy need’s petting he says mama! Ok I’m getting of subject a bit but any way I’m thankfull for a humugo amount of thing’s like my grandma and grandpa my godmother and godfather and a lot more there all active and funny! I’m also thankfull for my cousins! My cousins names are Brenna, Kaire, Alex (short for Alexzander) and Anthony and many more that I don’t’ really know about. I have unckles, aunt’s and stuff that I’m thankfull for! I love all of them and thankfull for them. Sometimes I might get upset with my mom or dad and espeically my brother but I’m still thankfull for all of them but I don’t get into fights with my cat because he cant talk but he dose bit my feet or any wear I’m still thankfull for every thing!

Johanna

 

Hi, and I’m righting about what I’m thankful for… everything! Yah sometimes life gets crazy and dull but tis always for a good reasone. Here are some things I could almost never live without.

Food, us people in the United States eat so much that we become overwieght. We also have a lot of food that goes to waist. I’m very thankful for food.

Shelter or a home, some people have to live in cardboard or on streets. I’m very thankful that I have a house.

Family is always important to me since my family is so big, everybody supports me. Some children hardly have any family because they died. I would feel very bad if one of my family members died, that’s why I’m so thankful for my family.

Clothing is one of the last things on my list, yest you don’t want to walk around naked but you also don’t want to have so much clothing you still have stuff that fit you when you were a baby. Try to go through everything and be thankful for it.

I think everybody should be thankful for what they have an just have what they need. It’s a good lesson.

Elisa

 

I’m thankful for my parents because I get to sleep with them at night. And they take care of me. They also cook me dinner at night. They take me to parks. They pay our bills so I have a warm house to live in.

I’m thankful for sports because I get to play them. I like them becase there fun to watch and fun to play. Football is my most favorite sport to watch. Baseball is my most favorite sport to play.

Colm

 

I’m thankful that I have food because without it I wouldn’t be as cheerfull as I am now. Also food helps ceep your energy up as dose sleep.

I’m also thankful that I can sleep safely in my nice safe home because were else would I sleep? Cause I don’t think it would be fun to sleep outside.

I am thankful for books because I love to read them when the author gets the story just right sometimes. Books make me feel energized.

I am very thankful for my family because my family tells great life storys. Also makes realy great food and just because of how much time we spend together laughing our heads off. We have alot of fun.

Emily

 

I am thankful for my family, food, water and cloths. Some people don’t hav aney of those things. I am very thankful.

I am thankful for my family. Some people don’t have familys and have to live alone. I am thankful for my family.

I am thankful for food. Some people need to eat mud to survive. I can just go to the refridge to get food. I am thankful for my food.

I am thankful for my cloths. Some people don’t have cloths. I am thankful for my cloths so I don’t need to go out bare. I am thankful for my cloths.

Nick

 

I am most thankful for food, shelter, clothes and family.

The reason I am most thanfull for food is because I need food to survive or else I would starve to death. Some of my favorite foods are tacos, pasta, and chicken.

I am also very thankful for my home. I love my home because its all warm and cozzy and welcoming. With out my home I would be outside freezing to death. I am thankfull for my home.

I am so very thankful for clothes. They keep you warm and keep you from going around in your birthday suit.

The thing I am most thankful for is my family. My mom is kind and a good cook. My dad is funny and nice. My brother is sometimes fun to play with. I love my family.

All in all I am very thankful to have every thing I need.

Hilary

 

I am thankfull for many things. I am thank for food. I am thankfull for my clothes. I am also thankfull for having a good home.

I am thankfull for the food I can have. I am thankfull that I have anough food to feed my whole family. Some children do not get the amount of food I get.

I am thankfull for the clothes I have. I have warm clothes for the winter, and I have sleeveless clothes for the summer. Some poor people don’t have this.

I have a good home. A mother and a father. They can both support me. Some kids don’t have both parents. I am thankfull that I have these things.

Zach

 

During this time in the year, people think about the things that they are thankful for. I have made a very good list of what I think I’m thankful for. I like sharing with people the things I’m thankful for.

I’m thankful for a lot of basic human needs like food, shelter, clothes, family and friends. I think a lot of people are thankful for many things. I know that I am thankful for a lot because many less fortunate people don’t have these things.

The things I’m most thankful for are basic human needs. But some people don’t have these basic things. Many people all over the world don’t have good food or safe shelter. I’m thankful for everything I have.

Megan

 

I’m very thankful for all the things that I have today. The things that I’m most thankful for is my family and friends. I’m very lucky to have people to take me to cool places.

I’m very lucky to have every member of my fmaily. I’m very thankful for all the things that my family has done for me. I love my whole family for what they have done for me, and I hope they love me, too.

I’m very thankful for all the trips that my dad took me on. I also am thankful for the good friends that I have. I’m very lucky to have a lot of people that care about me.

Jeffrey

 

I’m very lucky I have a lot of good things in my life. People who love me surround me. I’m thankful for all of these. I’m thankful for a roof over my head, so I can stay warm and dry, because I know some people don’t. I’m thankful for the food on my place, because I know some people don’t. I am thankful for my bed, because I know some people sleep on the ground. I’m thankful for my school education because I know some parents work double shifts for their kids to have a decent education. I’m thankful for my parent’s jobs because without them I would be on the streets, and I know some kids are. I’m thankful for the good sports program we have in Chaska and last but not least I’m thankful to be free because I know some people aren’t. I’m very fortunate to have all these things. I know some people don’t have them and that makes me even more grateful and sad. Those are the thigns I’m thankful for.

Justin

 

Thanksgiving is a time to be thankful for all the things you have. Here are some of the things I’m very thankful for my family because they are there for me when I need them. They make my laugh and smile and they provide food and shelter. I’m very thankful for all the food I have because some people don’t have good food that is healthy for them. I’m very blessed for my home to keep me warm when I’m cold, were I can eat sleep drink and play.

I’m very blessed for the things that I have. I’m glad I have all these things that some people don’t have that.

Brenna

 

I am greatful for my parents. My mom takes care of me for most of my life. And my dad protecs me and helps me learn and understand. I am greatful for my kitten. He loves to play. He also loves attention. I am greatful for my sisters. Even though they are older than me they do all sorts of things for me. Like get me new games. I want to repai them someday.

Aaron

 

I’m thankful for my family because other kids don’t have a mom or a dad so they would be given away in a orphanage.

I’m thankful for a house because some kids don’t have a house to live in. They would have to live on the cold ground.

I’m thankful for food and water because other kids have to eat mud pies just for their tummies to get full and it’s not good for them.

I’m thankful for love because my family loves me and sometimes kids mom and dad don’t love them and sometimes their usually abused. The end.

Raven

 

I’m thankful for everything. I am most thankful for my family. I am thankful that my family and I have money to buy food and clothen. Because look at Haiti where they don’t have as much food as my family. I’m also thankful for my perantes job because if they doid not have a job I probaly would not have the cloten and the house my family has. Happy thanksgiving evreybody.

Monica

 

I am thankfull for my fmaily, and the good house that I live in with the good food that I eat. I am thankfull for my mom and my dad, my two brothers, and my grandpa and my grandma. Some times I get mad at my family but I really love them. I am thankful for my house and my food that I have. I know that alot of familys don’t have good homes and good food to eat a live in so I try to don’t spoiled. I this is a way we thank God for a the thinks we have.

Gabreil

 

I am thankful for my family and my house and for food and for water and for friends and for being able to do sports and thankful to go to a school to learn and for clothes and for a car so I don’ thave to walk far every day and for things that keep me safe and for my teachers and for doctors and medicine and for my dog and so much more I cant write it all down.

Annaka

 

I am thankful for my famley and frends including Noelle! Food and water, dogs and cats, rats and fish horses.

Melanie

 

I am thankful for thank you for the food and enething.

Nicholas

 

There are a lot of things I am thankful for, and being in America is one of them. America is one of the wealthiest countries in the world. In America you get a lot of freedom. One of the freedoms that you have in America, that some other countries don’t is choosing who you follow. It’s also great that you get to do what you want to do. Those are things that I am thankful for in our coutnry, because in other coutnries you don’t get nearly as much freedom as you do in America.

T.J.

 

I am thankfull for a lot of things in my life. Here are a few of those things.

First of all I am very thankful for my fmaily because they are always there for me through everything. I am also thankful for my many friends. Without them my life would be boring and lonely. I am thankful for good food and water so that I can stay alive. I am thankful that I have a good singing voice, so that I can participate in choir and theater. I am also thankful that my family can help the world by doing foster care for the Humane Society.

There are lots of other things I am thankful for. But if I wrote them all, I would make a book.

Hannah

 

I am thankful for my famley in it I don’t have a littol sister but I have a littol brither my frense, my pets my webkins, me. The end.

Karen

 

I am thankfull for my famly and my scholl and my mom and my brothur.

McKenna

 

I am thankfull for my mom and dad.

Nick

 

I am thankful for mi mom and dad and mi scool and mi frends.

Brenna

 

Im thankful for shelter and food and im thankful for clothese and famliy and friends and pomkn pie and school and my techer and the Eath.

Lydia

 

I am thancfal for us and god and I am thancfol for frens and family.

Max

 

I em than you for mi bike and mi iup bike. I em than you for my nintendo ds.

Mathew

 

My favorite thing is petshop because I have 20 of and I will play with it and I love them.

Ariana

 

I like my hole famly and my grandma and my grdpa and my dad and my mom and my cousins.

A.J.

 

I’m thankful for my cat. Every morning my cat comes down the stairs and greats me. I’m tankful for my nintendo DS because I get to play games. I’m thankful for my art talent. I’m thankful for my food. I’m thankful for my house.

I’m thankful for pepole. I’m thankful for my school because they teach me stuff. I’m thankful for clean water.

Jacob

 

I am thankfull for my entire family, pet’s, homes for pets, housese, buildings, school, people, teatchers, me, chairs, table, school work, jobs, pet store, food stores, food, water, doctors, trees, teeth, tongue, noes, eyes, mouth ears, bodys, friend’s, outdoors, church, vet, plants, bushes, air, cars, radio, grass, shoes, clothes, cloth, socks, notebook, pencil, Spanish teatchers, Spanish, concorida, fiesta, piano, eyebrows, hair, words, nintendo ds, pens, games, furnitcher, lights, kleenex, towel and rugs and the hole world.

Rachel

 

I am thankful for food, my famly, tree’s, my friends, school, grass, clothes, airplain’s, air, pets, water, words, body.

Kevin

 

I am thankful for my mom and dad and my dog Rex and Cooper and my famley and my scool.

Sydney

 

I am thank for my famley and frens the hes I life in the schgoul I gowe to my teecher and food trees all necher woter things pepul hav bun ovure the past yers and a lot lot more.

Megan

 

I am tnkfull for my mom. My dad. My best freind Dominic. My to dogs and evre bote in the wrtd.

Jake

 

I am thcl far nachr.

Ben

 

I am thankful for mi mom en mi dad.

Tyler

 

I am thankful for food woter and shelter.

Conor

 

I am thankful for my dad and my mom if I wud not have a mom and a dad I wud not be aliv.

Lincoln

 

I am thankful for my mom and dad my freinds and books and games and beds.

Hannah

 

I am tankful for my mom and dad and my best freind Jake and my cousin and my grandma and grandpa even though my grandma likes to hug me.

Dominic

 

I am thankful for my family and my school and my frinds and my adility of being a frind.

Anna

 

There are so many things I’m thankful for in my life. I can’t really name them all so here’s three: family, clothes, and health.

I’m very thankful for my parents and grandparents because I realize that not every child in the world has all of their family alive and has had to go through the saddness of their passing.

I’m also very thankful for the clothes that I have and that my family can afford for me to have a winter coat, hat, and gloves, because lots of children and people in this world don’t have that.

I’m also thankful for my health, and medicine I can take at my house when I get a cold, because even though I have a runny nose right now, some people have it a lot worse.

I could go on with all the things I’m thankful for but, these seem like some of the most important.

Hayley

 

I’m thankful for many things. Here are some of them. I’m thankful for my family, my friends, food, warm clothes, the woods, and books.

I’m thankful for my family and friends because they’re always there for me when I’m sad. I’m thankful for food because I know people are starving, while I have plenty to eat. I’m thankful for the woods behind my house because I can run and play in them. I’m also thankful for books because they can tak you on a journey or make you happy or afraid.

I am thankful for many things besides these, but I can’t possibly write them all down. So, Happy Thanksgiving!

Stasia

 

I am thankful for my family and friends. I am thankful for the food I get, too.

Some people don’t have friends or family. That’s why I am thankfull for my family and friends. Some people don’t get food too. That is why I am thankfull for food. I am thankfull for my family because they take care of me. They help me when I need help, too. I am thankfull for my friends because they play with me. I am thankful for my teachers because they teach me stuff and help me with my work.

The thing I am thankfull for the most is my family becaues they care for me and love me.

Andrew

 

Thanksgiving is a time to be thankful. There are many things to be thankful for but it comes down to these thing that I am most thankful for.

I am thankful for the food on my table, and the water we drink with it. I am thankful for good friends and a family that loves me. I am thankful that we have oportunities to do the sports we love (like dance). I am also thankful for living in a free country. And most importantly I am thankful for being who I am.

I think that we should be thankful for almost everything, but most importantly we should be thankful about who we are.

Anna

 

I am thankful for my school, because I get to be with my friends. And I learn a lot from teachers, and it gives me a chance to learn a lot of different things like Spanish, health and a whole lot of other things.

I am also very thankful for my family, because they’re always there for me. My mom and dad look out for me and take care of me. My sister always gives me all of her old clothes and she sometimes plays with me. My brother is a really good drawer and he inspires me to draw and some day I hope to draw like him.

I am also thankful for my friends, because they are always by my side when I’m sad. Some of my friends I only get to see in the summer. Like Sonja, Berret, Jonna, Lisbeth, Krina and Kit. I also have some friends I get to see a lot like Emily, Noelle, Elisa, Monica and Annilese.

Kaya

 

I am thankful for my dad and my mom because they are happy and they love me. I am thankful for my class and my friends. I am thankful for Tammy.

Connor

 

There are a lot of things I am thankful for, like my friends I am thankful for them because they help me with my work and they like being with me. I am also thankful for my awesome parents who teach me, and help me when I need it. I am thankful for my dog becaues she is awesome!

I am also thankful for my house because homes keep us warm and shelter us. I am thankful for my bed because it is very I repeat very comftroble!

I am thankful for my clothes because they keep me warm. I am also thankful for pools because I love swimming. I am thankful for ice cream in the summer because it keeps me cool in the summer. And last, but not least, I am thankful for my teachers and my school because I think learning is fun!

I like having things to be thankful for!

Emily

 

I am thankful for my family. My sister my mom and my dad are all parts of my family. I am also thankful for my school and teachers. I am thankful for our water, food and air.

I am also thankful for my home and clothes. I am thankful for all the sports that we have in Minnesota. I am thankful for all the friends I have. Some of themn are Sammies, Kelli, Emma, Gabby, Emily and Ali and much much more. I am also thankful for God.

I am thankful for all the animals. I am also thankful for the sun, moon, stars and wind. I am thankful that wars and volcanoes are not here any more. I am also thankful for all the plants.

Noelle

 

There are many things that I am thankful for. I have food, shelter, and a family that love’s me.

I am very thankful that I have food, because I know that there are children all over the world, even in America, children die of starveashon because theyre families can not aford to buy food.

I am also very thankful that I have shelter. I know that I live in a very nice house, and I am thankful that when it rains, I don’t half to get wet. But when I am inside I think about the people that half to stand outsid and get wet.

I am exstrimly thankful that I have boath my parents, aunts, unkols, cosins, and granparents that love me and I know that theyre are people all over that don’t have any family at all.

I am very thankful beacause I have evrything I could ever need.

Dana

 

I am thankful for many things. I am thankful for; a house, food, a family and many more things.

I am thankful for a house because houses provide warmth and shelter for people and their pets. I like my house because there is enough room for our 11 pets and my mom, dad, sister and me.

I am thankful for food because if I did not have food I would die. Some people in poor countries can not afford food so they starve.

I am thankful for a great family that loves me and cares about me. There are some familys with only one mom, one dad or neither. I am thankful that I have both.

I am thankful for all theese thing because some people don’t have them.

Maddie

 

Thanksgiving is a time of giving and being with your family. These are some of the things I am thankful for.

I’m thankful for my family and friends, because if I had no family or friends I would be cold and be living on the streets all alone. I’m also thankful to livein a home with food to eat, bcease if I had no food I would go hungry.

This is a list of some of the things I am thankful for. I love having evry thing I need.

Carol

 

I can’t wait for Thanksgiving this year. Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. I love the turkey.

I am thankful for a lot of things. I am thankful for my parents because they take care of me. I am thankful for my clothes to keep us warm. I am thankful for the school I’m in so I can learn. I am thankful for the Navy, military, Air Force, and the Army for protecting the United States. I am thankful for farms because they give us food. I am thankful for medicine for curing sickness. I am thankful for doctors because they nurse people when there sick. I am thankful for roads and cars so we can get places faster. I am thankful for food so we don’t starve. I am thankful for houses so we can live in something. I am thankful electricity so we have light. I am thankful for beds so we can get sleep. I am thankful for fires for keeping us warm.

I am also thankful for air so we can breathe. I am thankful for bathrooms so we can take a shower. I am thankful water so we don’t get dehydre.

Thanksgiving is going to be aws this year. I hope thanksgiving has something new this year. I love thanksgiving a lot.

Alex

 

I’m thankful for alot of things one is my parents. My mom and stepdad. They give me food and shelter. They both love me very much. I’m also very thankful for my dad and his girlfriend. They love me very much as well. They give me food and shelter too. I’m very thankful for the shelter they give me. I complain to my mom about sharing a room with my sister but I shouldn’t, at least I have a room. We have so much food we throw it away or give it to the dog. Sometimes compared to other people we are not rich. However my family seems rich compared to alot of people in Haiti and Africa. So it depends on how you think about it.

I’m also thankful for my pet’s and sibblings. I have 5 pets. At my moms I have 2 cats, and 1 dog. My cats are both boys. The oldest is Oliver. He is about 8 years old. The youngest is Nemo he is about 4 years old. My dogs name is Duncan he is 4 years old. At my dad’s house I have 2 dogs. The oldest is Kody he is 8. The youngest is Burkley he is 1. My siblings are Taylor, 4, and Anna, 7.

There are so many more things I’m thankful for, but you would get bored. Thank you!

Aly