{"id":16885,"date":"2011-11-23T15:05:12","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T20:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=16885"},"modified":"2011-11-23T15:05:12","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T20:05:12","slug":"franklin-school-celebrates-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2011\/11\/23\/franklin-school-celebrates-thanksgiving\/","title":{"rendered":"Franklin School celebrates Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_16887\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16887\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16887 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/KIDS-PROGRAM1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"191\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16887\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Franklin School students presented programs on Thanksgiving. (Photo submitted.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Students at Franklin Elementary School celebrated Thanksgiving on November 22. Parent volunteers served a turkey feast and everyone enjoyed the delicious turkey, potatoes and gravy, corn, roll, and a\u00a0pumpkin square.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Pelton&#8217;s second grade class\u00a0visited\u00a0other classes\u00a0and performed\u00a0a Reader&#8217;s Theater play\u00a0called &#8220;The Night Before Thanksgiving.&#8221;\u00a0 In the afternoon, Kindergarteners in Mrs. Hoods\u2019 and Mrs. Chiles&#8217; classes put on a program for their invited guests (parents or grandparents). They acted out the story of the first Thanksgiving, said some poems, and read a book or<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16888\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16888\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16888 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DAD-KID-PUNKIN-PIE.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"284\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16888\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children made a pumpkin pie for their guests. (Photo submitted.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>letter\u00a0they had written about what makes them thankful.<\/p>\n<p>After the program, the children served their parents a piece of the pumpkin pies they made yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students at Franklin Elementary School celebrated Thanksgiving on November 22. Parent volunteers served a turkey feast and everyone enjoyed the delicious turkey, potatoes and gravy, corn, roll, and a\u00a0pumpkin square. Mrs. Pelton&#8217;s second grade class\u00a0visited\u00a0other classes\u00a0and performed\u00a0a Reader&#8217;s Theater play\u00a0called &#8220;The Night Before Thanksgiving.&#8221;\u00a0 In the afternoon, Kindergarteners in Mrs. Hoods\u2019 and Mrs. Chiles&#8217; classes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vwcscolumn"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 07:46:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}