I don’t recall my first learning about Thanksgiving that well. I remember there being lots of fall colors oranges, browns, reds. We made turkey’s out of our hand prints that we had traced, then coloring them to look like a turkey. As a kid it was always all about coloring.
We learned about the trip on the Mayflower. I remember being taught about how the Native Americans had taught the pilgrims to grow food with dead fish as fertilizer. I always remember the feast that occurred out of school. The whole family would come together and give thanks for what had happened to them through the year.
I remember doing very similar activities when I was a kid! And now that you mention it, I also recall learning about planting their England seeds with dead herring because their England seeds would never grow in the New World by themselves.
I actually did not know that they were taught to use dead fish as fertilizer. I guess I am still learning on what actually happened on the first Thanksgiving.