How to cook a turkey, according to the students in Mrs. Geise’s class at Watsontown Elementary

AM Kingergarten

I don’t usually eat turkey because I have never tried it. My Mom cooks our turkey. She buys it at Wal-Mart. My Mom can’t lift the turkey. I go with her and lift it. I just use my strength. The turkeys have been died. They take all of the stuff out. They take out all of the turkey food from inside of the turkey. Mom puts the insides on the grill. She cuts the turkey legs off. The legs are the bad part. Sometimes she saves them to eat. She gives the bad parts to our turtles. She puts a hole inside the legs and puts the feathers in the hole. I take the feathers and make turkey puppets with them. Mom watches General Hospital while the insides are cooking. It takes about a half hour to cook. She puts it on the plate. I set the silverware out and then we eat. We say grace and that’s it.

Trent Balzer

 

We go to our Grammy’s house for Thanksgiving. We go there about 10:30 in the morning. We have to go to my Grammy’s house because my dad is allergic to cats. Grammy does not have any cats. My Dad or my Gram goes to get the turkey at Family Dollar. Two people from the dollar store go into the woods. Turkeys sometimes walk closely to the Family Dollar. The workers wear army clothes and go outside to kill the turkeys. They use bow and arrows and sometimes guns. They put paper and yellow squares on top of the turkeys. They chop them up and put them in the fridge. The people at the dollar store take off the feathers. They sell the feathers for $1.

Gram gets the turkey in a box at Family Dollar for $7. She keeps the turkey box. She rubs salt and pepper onto the turkey. She stuffs the turkey with powder, bacon powder, and salt. She puts it in the microwave for 30 seconds. Grammy’s turkey is always nice and soft.

Alex Brown

 

Mom buys the turkey at Wal-Mart. It’s a chicken turkey. It’s big, fat, and brown. It has bones sticking out of the side. She puts it on a tray and puts salt on top of it. She puts it in the over at 25 percent for 88 minutes. The oven beeps and that means the turkey is done. She puts oven mitts on and grabs the tray. She puts the turkey on the tray on the table. Some of our friends come over to help us eat it. It tastes great. We have a feast.

Grace Bruckhart

 

I like turkey. They are my “favor.” My Mom cooks it. She learned how to cook a turkey at her work (at a school). My sister buys my Mom a turkey for her birthday. She puts it in a clear bag and gives it to my Mom. Everyone sings happy birthday. The turkey sits and watches everyone sing.

My Mom puts chicken, fish, and tuna inside the turkey. She puts more food inside the “butt” of the turkey. My Mom takes the feathers off and makes a hat with them. She cooks the turkey with the stove. She cooks it for 10, 20 minutes. She burns it and then cools it down with a fan. She warms it back up (only to 10).

Jaxine Dunn

 

We go to Gugga’s house for Thanksgiving. I think she gets the turkey from Weis or Wal-Mart in the food section. it is not real. It’s already baked. I didn’t eat the turkey before. I eat ribs, but not the bones. My dog never had bones before.

The turkey is a circle and pink. Gugga baked it at home. She puts plastic on it and bakes it in the microwave for 10 minutes. She puts it on a tray and then puts it on the table. We eat chips too.

Noah Harmon

 

My Dad goes up to Uncle Gary’s and shoots a turkey because he has two woods. He lives up a big hill. He brings it home. It has its eyes open. It still has the feathers on it. Dad takes the feathers off with scissors. He takes them outside and dumps them. He keeps the eyes in. We decorate the turkey. We put like fake snow and a little bit of glitter on it.

We eat chicken. If we see a chicken, we shoot it. John has about 10,000 big “thingys.” I don’t know what it is called. We take the feathers and eyes out of it and cook it. We cook it in our stove in a pan. We don’t check the temperature. We cook it about the temperature. We cook it about, I don’t even know. My Mommy and Daddy look at it to see if it is done. That’s about all of it.

Pamela Hornberger

 

My Mom makes corn and chicken for Thanksgiving. She gets milk for everybody to drink. She gets cups for the milk for everybody. She gets apples for everybody. She actually brings eggs and bread in the toaster. She gets pillows for dollhouses. That is all!!!!

My Mom was in the army. They teach her how to make fish for Thanksgiving. I do not like fish. I am not having any. I am going to eat the corn. She catches the fish in the ocean. She wears her swimming suit and her “flippers.” She actually wears goggles. She goes under the water and sees if she can catch the fish with a net. She catches “rainbow” fish (five of them). She goes back under the ocean and catches 10 more fish. My Daddy helps her get the fish ready for dinner. They cut the blood out. They put the fish in my sink to swim around. We let them swim around for a bit. We have to drain the water out and let them swim around for 10 more minutes. We put the water back in. We put the drain then back on. We put all of them (in a whole big pack) in the oven for six minutes. We put some water in the oven so the fish can swim around in there. We put them back in the oven for four minutes. We know that they are done when it is nighttime. When we eat the fish, we get in the shower. We go back to bad and wake up and go to the ocean again (but with a boat).

Heather Longacre

 

We do not have turkey on Thanksgiving because you can’t buy them around here. Instead, we have biscuits and brisket. We put apple butter and regular butter on the biscuits. We cook them in the oven for 20 minutes on warm. Brisket is made out of cow (all sorts of parts of the cow). Men take knives and kill the cow. They open it up and cut the all sorts of parts out with a knife. We have cider to drink. They sell the brisket at a store downtown. My dad is going to cook the brisket on a smoker. They put the smoker outside because it puts too much smoke inside. it has a whistle. He starts it up by charcoal. We dip it in barbecue sauce or ranch. He cooks it for about 20 minutes. While the brisket is cooking, he gets on the computer to do all sorts of stuff like check his emails. He also watches Discovery Channel. I love my dad because he cooks our Christmas dinner.

Abram Masser

 

My Dad gets a turkey at the grocery store and brings it home it home to my Mom. My Mom takes off the skin and cooks it. Mom cooks it in the oven for half an hour. My Mimi and my cousins and my Gigi all come to my house. My Mom sits on the couch and watches TV until the turkey is done. My Mom says the turkey is ready to eat. We all eat only turkey — nothing else.

Ryan Mattox

 

My Dad shoots a turkey in the woods by the train tracks. The turkey weighs nine pounds. Dad gets a knife and skins it up. My Mom cooks it in the kitchen. Mom cooks the turkey for seven minutes. The stuffing in the turkey is made from chips and cookies. We eat off plates that look like turkeys. My Mom sits in the kitchen and watches the turkey cook. We have vanilla and chocolate ice cream for dessert. My Mom puts chocolate syrup on vanilla ice cream (that’s homemade ice cream).

Ethan Minium

 

I am having Thanksgiving with my Aunt Lisa. She lives over in Huntersville. It takes five minutes to get there. Aunt Lisa cooks the turkey. She buys the turkey at Weis (10 or 15 pounds). She buys a “tannish” colored turkey with brown eyes. She buys a dead turkey. What do you think? If the turkey is not dead, it will fly all around the store and that wouldn’t be good. It would gobble everything up.

My Mom cooked a turkey last night. She dug out the back bone and put it in the freezer to make turkey soup. She takes the turkey’s toenails off somehow. She throws them away in a garbage can. Sometimes she has pumpkin rolls. She puts icing down on soft bread and rolls it up. This is the only way you make them — do not cook the pumpkin roll. She puts the turkey on a pan. Maybe she wraps it in foil. She cooks it for 10 minutes.

Tracy Muckelmann

 

My Thanksgiving is going to be cool because we have balloons hanging outside. At my kind of Thanksgiving, we have a party. We have some cake and all. My Mom goes get the turkey at the Thanksgiving store. It is only open on Thanksgiving. It is far away. She goes by a boat. She has to be careful because there is a waterfall. She rows right there. She puts wood on the boat so she can’t “drowned.” She kicks the wood to get out of the boat. She takes a path to get the turkey. It is a shortcut. There is a turkey there waiting for her. She puts the turkey back in the boat and goes back at her house. She puts the wood back on the turkey so the turkey cannot get out. She rows back to the house and puts the turkey in the awesome and cool house. That is all. I got nothing else.

Steven Nyman

 

We eat turkey for Thanksgiving. My Pap shoots a turkey with a shotgun. The turkey flaps his wings and gobbles when he gets shot. He gets shot one minute after Pap’s gun is dead cause the batteries are dead.

Pap cuts off the hair and we put the feathers in the cabinet. We cook it in the oven for 10 seconds. The turkey’s body is white and brown and soft. While the turkey is cooking, Pap cuts out the heart and puts salt on it. We go hunting for squirrels when the turkey is done for one minute. We eat fish tails and then we have ice cream for dessert.

Alex Orozco

 

Grammy picks up the turkey at the store. She pays and drives in the car back home. The turkey is in the trunk. She brings the turkey up the steps. She carries the turkey. She walks over to the stove. She opens the cover of the turkey so she can get it out. The turkey has the meat skin over the top and the turkey is inside. She puts the turkey in a pan and puts a thermometer in the turkey so she cans see how many numbers it is up to. When it gets to eight, she takes it out of the pan and puts it on a big plate. We eat it. It kinda tastes like chicken. I like it.

Emma Pick



Linda buys the turkey at Weis. It still has a head and eyes. She takes the turkey home. She bakes it until it is brown. She bakes it at the house on the stove. She puts it in a pan for seven hours at two degrees. She puts pepper and sugar on the turkey. She sets the timer to seven hours. The clock dings and then she takes the turkey off the stove. She puts salt on it. She puts it on the table and then we eat it.

Emma Podobinski

 

We always have turkey and baked beans on Thanksgiving. Mommy gets the beans from a store. She dumps the can of beans into the pot and cooks them for a few minutes. She gets the turkey from the store by the movie store that closed. She buys a cooked turkey. She looks for a perfect turkey that looks like really good (brown). The store bakes the turkey in the bakery. They put it in a cold shelf. She picks it up and puts it in her cart. She takes it home and we wait until Thanksgiving dinner. I play my DS and my Wii while we wait.

Gabriella Tickle

 

PM Kindergarten

My Mom cooks our turkey because by Dad and my sister burn stuff. Mom learned how to cook a turkey from Gram. She gets it from Weis. The people that scan the turkeys bring the turkeys in from where they live. They shoot the turkeys. After the turkeys gobble, they die. A turkey is 1000 dollars at Weis. Mom gets the money from work and buys the turkey. The scanner people at Weis cut up the turkey for my Mom. She peels the turkey apart and puts bread in it (5 loaves). She cuts a circle in the turkey to put bread in. She tapes it shut. She cooks it in the oven in a pan. She gets on the computer (taking surveys) until it is done cooking. She cooks the turkey for 5 hours. she puts water on the turkey when it is done. Mom gets a turkey needle out to see if it is done.

Emmie Aunskt

 

Mom buys the turkey from Weis next to my Mam and Pap. It has legs, arms, and wings. She pays for it. She pays $5 for it. It weighs heavy. She needs a little truck to bring it home. She puts it in the refrigerator. We don’t buy any turkeys with feathers. She takes the paper off. I think she puts it in the pan. She turns on the over to 10 percent. She knows when it is done when the timer goes “beep” (about 4 minutes). She takes the turkey out with gloves. She cuts the turkey up and puts it on our plates. We say grace. We start eating. It is good.

Nathan Bomboy



God makes turkeys up in heaven. He uses meat to make them. Jesus helps him. God flies down with the turkeys and brings them to Pennsylvania. God lets the turkeys go in the woods. He goes back up in heaven. He tells the turkeys “bye” after he lets them go.

My Mom and Meme cook our turkey. Pappy takes Mom and Meme into the woods with his gun. Mom and Meme can’t shoot one because they don’t have a hunting license. He always shoots one “dad” turkey. Blood comes out of the turkey. My pappy cleans it up with wipes. They put it in the back of the truck and cover it up so the cops don’t see it. They wait until it’s dark to bring the turkey in so nobody sees them. Meme stuffs the turkey with a rag. She cooks it in the oven for 10 minutes on the 12th temperature.

Xander Beaver



My Dad hunts for turkeys in Trout Run (in the woods on a hill). He shoots the turkey. He brings it home and takes the feathers off. He throws the feathers outside. He cuts the guts and heart out. He throws them in the woods. He washes the turkey in soap and water. He blows it dry with a blow dryer. He puts salt and pepper on it and then puts it on the grill. He wants the temperature at 75 so it doesn’t burn. He cooks it for about half an hour. The grill dings when it is done. He takes it off the grill and puts it on a plate. Then he gets a fork and starts to eat it.

Spencer Fogelman



My Pap and brother go to the field on Halloween to get our turkey. Pap dresses up as a turkey to go in the field. My brother dresses up as a mountain lion. Dressing up as a mountain lion helps the turkeys come out. Pap holds the gun and shoots the turkey. Pappy and Nana make the turkey a costume with a sewing machine.

They put the turkey on a table outside. They get a knife and cut out feathers and hair. They dump the turkey in a bucket to clean it off. My Nana puts one hot dog bun inside the turkey. She makes the gravy from water and potatoes. She cooks it in the oven for five hours. When it is done it will start smelling like chicken.

Jainie Hanford



Mom buys the turkey from Wal-Mart. She buys the turkey from the fruit area. It’s in a package about seven dots. She takes it home. My mom takes the feathers off with her hands. She cooks the feathers in water for 10 minutes. She throws them away. She puts the turkey on top of the oven to bake for 20 minutes. She dumps the feather water in the sink. She washes the turkey with soap. The over beeps and she knows the turkey is done. She puts the turkey on the table. We eat it.

Kara Hoffman



We usually shoot our Thanksgiving turkey. My aunt Stephanie shoots our turkey. The whole family goes to Stephanie’s house to eat. She lives in the woods. There are no bears in her woods. We all wear long jeans and long shirts. We all hold hands. My uncle and my brother shoot the turkey too. My brother climbs up in the trees. He shoots the turkey. Last year, our turkey was very hairy and it had a pattern on it. We all carry the turkey back to the house. Before we take the turkey inside, we brush the blood off. We brush the dirt off too. When it tries to run away, we try and shoot it again. We only cook the “hips” of the turkey. We set the “hips” in the stove. We put chicken next to the turkey. We cook the turkey for eight hours. Gram sets a clock. While the turkey is cooking, we all watch Sponge Bob.

Lindsey Miller



My Dad shoots our turkey when it is winter time. He does it before it even snows (around 9 o’clock in the middle of the night). He gets out of bed and gets dressed. He wears his hunting clothes. He brushes his teeth. he drives to Lewisburg (to the woods). People can’t see him because he goes down in the woods too far. He hides behind a tree and jumps around. He just hears birds. The turkey walks out and he “shots” it.

He gets the turkey and puts it in a bag. He puts it in the trunk. It can’t get out because it is already dead. He washes his truck because it stinks because of the turkey. He brings the turkey home and puts it in the freezer so the blood goes away. He gets it out and then he puts it in the freezer again. He does not cook the turkey. He takes it out of the freezer and we eat it.

Tanner Polcyn



Nanna hunts for the turkeys in the woods by her house. She gets a gun and shoots it. She just sneaks up on it and shoots it. She puts the turkey in a bag that is clear and puts it in her car. She throws the wings away. I think she throws the eyes away too. She washes it in her bathroom with soap and a sponge. She cooks it in the stove. She puts chicken in the turkey. She puts some water and flour and cooks it. She cooks it for five minutes. Cause she watches it, she knows it’s done. She brings it over to us so we can eat it. We eat spaghetti and meatballs too. It tastes good.

Sofia Riddell



Mommy cooks our turkey. She goes outside with a big net. She “sneaks on” the turkey. She runs and gets the turkey. She is careful not to step in the leaves because she just raked them. When she rakes the leaves, she puts them in the fire. She puts one hole in the turkey with a knife so the turkey does not scream. Turkeys make loud noises unless you put knives in the turkey. She pulls the knife out. She runs into the kitchen and puts the turkey in the oven before it screams. She gets wood and puts it in front of the oven so the turkey doesn’t get it. She cooks it for five minutes. When it is done, she cuts the turkey’s face off. If it has wings, she shaves the wings off. She puts rainbow glitter on it to make it taste good.

Caitlyn Smith



Dad shoots the turkey in the woods by Meme’s house. He carries the turkey with a paper towel or a long piece of stuff. He sets the turkey in the car and puts the seat belt on it. Dad has Meme or Pap cut the feathers. The bones were sticking out just straight. He washed it with soap and water for about 10 minutes or 11 minutes at hot. He knows it is done when it goes “ding” or he thinks it is done. He takes it out of the oven and we eat it.

Carter Temple



My family does not eat turkey on Thanksgiving. We eat chicken. My Dad does not like turkey. Normally, my Daddy shoots the chicken. He goes to a farm and asks if he can shoot a chicken. Daddy crawls into the barn because he doesn’t want to scare the chickens. He tries to get the chickens with a net. He catches three chickens in the net. The net has a top. He puts one chicken in a box at a time and shoots it.

He takes them home and Momma pulls the feathers off. Momma boils the chicken.

Kyleah Wagner