With A Grateful Heart

With a Grateful Heart - Thanksgiving Day in Australia Hello Elementary Friends, I will forever remember Thanksgiving Day in Australia. It was definitely different from any I have experienced in 60 years. Today I rose as on any other week day and headed to work! I took 54 children for their swim school. I then taught a math class, an art class, and read a chapter of Pippi Longstocking. Mitch showed up at school at 12:00 with the food that we prepared for our friends at Beaumont Road for a Traditional American Thanksgiving Day Luncheon. He set up most everything due to the fact that I was teaching. At 12:40 I took 22 students with me to the staff room where they read silently while Mitch and I continued preparing for the luncheon that would commence at 1:00. As a reward for sitting quietly while the preparations were being conducted, my students were rewarded with a "Lamington" (traditional chocolate coconut sponge cake) to have with their ...