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Sundance Kindergarteners tell us how to cook a turkey

Mrs. Hansen’s class

Maya – For Thanksgiving, I will get my turkey from the store. I don’t think we season it or stuff it with anything. We will cook it in the oven for 14 minutes on hot. I like to enjoy my turkey with soy milk. I will eat it at our house on our table with my grammy (Terry), mommy and daddy. I like to eat Thanksgiving turkey for dinner.

Jayden – To get our Thanksgiving turkey, I will go hunting for it. We will use seasonings to dress it and put more seasonings on the inside. We will cook it on the grill or smoker. I think we cook it for 10 minutes at 8 degrees. Normally I don’t like turkey so I eat potatoes. We like to eat them at our grandma’s house. Typically, we eat them at 7 a.m., I think. I like to share my turkey with my friends. Sometimes they come to my grandma’s house with my mom and dad.

Maura – We like to shoot our Thanksgiving turkey. We will dress it with sauce and stuff it with a special kind of stuffing. We cook it in the smoker for five minutes at six degrees. I like to enjoy my turkey with green beans and sometimes broccoli. We will eat it at our grandma’s house at the end of the day with my family.

Audie – For Thanksgiving, we will get our turkey from the store. We will season it with salt but we do not stuff it with anything. We will cook it in the oven for 30 hours at eight degrees. I really like to eat my turkey with watermelon. Last time, we did eat it at my cousin’s house but now we will be at our house. We like to eat it at night time. I really like to share my turkey with my sister, Ada.

Walker – To get our family turkey for Thanksgiving, we will go out and shoot it. We will dress it with salt and sometimes pepper. We always stuff our turkey with salt and pepper. We cook our turkey in our shop with a grill. We will cook it for 12 hours on warm. I really like to eat my turkey with ketchup, green beans and on sandwiches. I will eat it in our house at night time. I really like to share my turkey with mom and dad and the kids.

Jace – We always butcher our Thanksgiving turkey. Mom will put meat season on our turkey, but we do not stuff it with anything. We will cook it in our smoker for 14 minutes. We like to keep our smoker at 35 degrees. I like to eat my turkey with salad and the slimy dressing. My brothers don’t really like that dressing. We share our turkey with grandma, grandpa, brothers and mom and dad. Sometimes my cousins come over too. We eat our turkey at lunch time at my grandma’s house.

Macy – For Thanksgiving, we will get our turkey from the store. We will dress it with pepper and salt. We will stuff it with lemons. We will cook it in the oven for five or six seconds at 88 degrees. I enjoy my turkey with fruit. We usually eat our turkey at home on Thanksgiving Day at supper time. I share it with my friends, brothers, sisters and my mom and dad.

Aspen – My grandma will buy and bring our Thanksgiving turkey. We will season it with salt and pepper. We will stuff it with vegetables. I think we cook it in the oven for 15 minutes for 20 degrees. We will eat it at the table at our house. I like to share my Thanksgiving turkey with my family at supper time.

Tregg – I like to go hunting for my Thanksgiving turkey. We will season it with eggs and stuff it with bread. We will cook it in the oven for five minutes at 400 degrees. I like to eat my turkey with French fries. We will eat our turkey at the pool with my mom and dad. Typically, we eat our turkey at six o’clock.

Baze – We will buy our Thanksgiving turkey from Walmart. We will dress it with ketchup but we will stuff it with nothing. We will cook it on medium for 20 seconds in the oven. I like to eat my turkey with green beans and corn. We will enjoy our turkey at our house in the evening. I like to share my turkey with my mom, my dad and sometimes my sister (she’s in college).

Ethan – For Thanksgiving, we get our turkey from the store. We will season it with salt and stuff it with vegetables. We will cook it in the oven for six hours on hot! I like to eat my turkey with ranch. We will eat it at our house at dinner time. I enjoy sharing my turkey with my mom, dad and Joey.

Lora – We will go hunting to get out Thanksgiving turkey. We don’t season it or stuff it with anything. We will cook it in the stove for 40 minutes on hot. I like to eat my turkey with salad. We will eat our turkey on our table at lunchtime at my house. I like to share my turkey with my grandma, grandpa, mom, dad, Eva and Jane.

Alydee – We usually buy our Thanksgiving turkey from the store. We will season it with nothing. We will stuff it with stuffing. We will cook it in the microwave for 12 minutes on hot. I like to eat my turkey with mashed potatoes and gravy. We will eat it at our table, which is at our house. We will enjoy our Thanksgiving turkey with my family at lunchtime.

Millie – Our Thanksgiving turkey comes from the store. We will season it with salt. We won’t stuff it with anything though. We will cook it in the oven on warm. We usually cook it until it’s warm enough. I enjoy eating turkey with corn and salad. I like to eat our turkey at our house or sometimes at a restaurant around dinner time. I love to share my turkey with my family.

Ms. Moeller’s class

Tucker – During Thanksgiving, we usually get our turkey by shooting it. We dress the turkey with feathers and stuff it with a stick. We cook the turkey on the grill for 41 minutes at a warm temperature. We eat our turkey at home with a side of ranch. I usually wait until dinner to eat the turkey and I share it with my mom and dad. 

Willie – During Thanksgiving, we get our turkey by catching it. We usually just dress it in regular clothes and then stuff it with clothes, too. We cook it on the oven for five minutes at six degrees. We eat our turkey with ketchup on the picnic table. We usually eat our turkey on Halloween with my friends. 

Livia – We buy our turkey for Thanksgiving every year. We dress it with spices and surround it with salad. Usually, we don’t stuff our turkey. We cook it at my pabu’s house for four minutes at seven degrees. We eat a salad and the wishbone with our turkey. We eat our turkey in the living room or where we cook it. Sometimes we eat close to our turkey and sometimes we eat outside. I like to eat it with my family at 9:30 at night. 

Wyatt – My dad usually shoots our turkey with his gun. I don’t know how we season it because our friends cook it for us, but we usually stuff it with seasoning. It’s cooked on the stove for 20 minutes at four degrees. We like to eat mashed potatoes with our turkey at our dinner table. I like to eat the turkey with my grandma, my aunt and my friend when it is close to night time.

Morgan – My dad shoots our turkey with his gun. We dress it as a rainbow and stuff it with fluff. 

We cook it in the oven for 20 minutes at the temperature of hot and yellow. My family and I eat our turkey together at the table around two o’clock. We enjoy it with applesauce and caramel apples. 

Briar – I like to sneak up on our turkey and catch it. My family dresses it in Thanksgiving clothes and then we celebrate by eating candy. We cook it in the oven for 10 minutes at a warm temperature. We eat our turkey with our friends at the table around nine o’clock. We enjoy chicken as a side with our turkey. 

Kellen – I can’t really remember where we get our turkey, but most of the time we dress it in clothes. We stuff our turkey with more turkey. Yum! We cook the turkey in the grill for 20 days. I’m not sure what temperature we cook the turkey at. I like to eat the turkey with Jett, Mallen and Jax, in the morning, on the table, with a side of warm bread.

Riley – We always get our turkey by killing it. We dress it in different sauces and stuff it with stuffing. We cook our turkey in the oven for one hour at 20 degrees. We usually eat ham and turkey with our turkey. My mom, dad, grandma, grandpa, brother and I all enjoy the turkey inside a dining room table at around 5:00. 

Nash – We always get our turkey from the store. We season it by pulling all the bones out of it and then stuff it with chicken. We cook it in the oven for five minutes so it doesn’t get burnt. Then we cook it outside at 100 degrees. I like to share the turkey with my family. We enjoy it as a family at my house with stuffing at 10:30.

Bree – I get the turkey by killing a chicken. We season it by putting it in the oven and stuffing it with more chicken. I cook it in the oven for two minutes at a hot temperature. I like to eat ranch with my turkey. My family and I eat our turkey at the table or on the counter during Thanksgiving.

Matthew – I get the turkey by shooting it and put clothes on it to dress it. I like to stuff the turkey with meat. I usually cook it at home for five minutes on low. Most of the time I eat a fork with the turkey. I like to eat my turkey with your friends at the dinner table when it’s time to eat.

McCoy – We always get our turkey from Colby and Sawyer. We dress it with pepper and stuff it with salsa. I cook the turkey on the oven for 30 minutes at the hot temperature of 20 degrees. I like to eat French fries with it on our table. I share the turkey with my whole table at eight o’clock.

Rose – I’m not really sure how I get the turkey, but I think I get it by feeding it. I stuff it with stuffing and eat the turkey with a side of spaghetti. I cook the turkey at home for a few minutes at one degree. I share the turkey with my sister. We eat it at home at one o’clock.

Tay – We get our turkey by killing it. We dress it with a lot of spices, but they’re not very hot. Most of the time, we don’t stuff our turkey. I don’t watch my mom a lot when she cooks, but I do know she cooks it in the oven for 10 minutes at 15 degrees. We eat our turkey at my papa and grandmas with a side of rice sometime between 10-12 o’clock. I enjoy sharing the turkey with the entire family. 

Mrs. Johnson’s class

Garrett – We don’t have turkey on Thanksgiving. We have peanut butter and jelly and ham sandwiches, instead. If we did have a turkey, I would stuff it with peppers and cook it on the stove. I would cook it enough for it to be warm at about 12 degrees. However, I would still only eat peanut butter and jelly for our dinner. We usually eat our turkey in our addition or sometimes outside. We like to eat in the middle of the day. I would invite my cousins and grandparents to eat with us.

Sawyer – We get our turkey from the grocery store. We season it with pepper and then stuff it with chicken. We usually cook it in the microwave for 23 hours until it is very hot. I eat my turkey with ketchup at our table. We like to eat our Thanksgiving meal at night with our family.

Jhett – We get our turkey from the store. We season it with hot flakes, but we don’t stuff it. The stove is where we cook our turkey for about 95 minutes on high. I like to eat steak and stuffing with my turkey. We eat at my grandparent’s house at lunch time. I love to share my turkey with my whole family!

Candice – We buy our turkey from the store. We stuff it with butter and cook it in the oven for 70 minutes. The temperature must be hot before we can eat it. I like to enjoy my turkey with buns. We eat inside at suppertime. I love to share my turkey with my family!

Evelyn – We buy our turkey from the store. We season it with salt and cook it in the oven for 20 minutes at 10 degrees. I like to eat my turkey with mac and cheese! We eat in the kitchen at dinnertime with my family!

Rix – My daddy hunts the turkey with his friends. We then get some seasoning from the store to put on it. We stuff the turkey with stuffing and put it in a white pot. We then cook it for three hours at number four. I love to eat stuffing and steak with my turkey. We eat our turkey at our friends’ house and sometimes at our house. I love to share my turkey with my friends and family!

Delilah – We shoot our turkey when we hunt together as a family. We don’t season it or stuff it with anything. We cook it at our house on the grill. We cook the turkey for one minute on warm. I love to eat stuffing with my turkey. We usually eat at my house in the afternoon. I love to share my turkey with my family!

Sadie – We get our turkey from the store. We usually don’t season it and we just stuff it with more meat. We cook our turkey in our big microwave for 15 or 16 minutes. We like to eat our turkey hot with cheese. I think we will eat at Larry’s house this year at night. I would love to share my turkey with my family!

Conagher – We shoot, skin and eat our turkey. We don’t need to season or dress it because we just like plain turkey. We stuff it with candy like a pinata! We cook it on the stove for about five minutes at a temperature of six! We eat our turkey with coyote meat, deer meat, elk meat and gopher meat (okay, not that!). We eat our meal in our garden on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. I would love to share my turkey with our cowboys!

Loretta – We shoot our Thanksgiving turkey. We don’t like any spices on it and we just stuff it with hot stuff. It gets cooked in an oven for about 10 minutes at 11 degrees. We eat our turkey with forks and buns while sitting on a bench at my aunt’s house. We usually eat with my grandma and grandpa!

Preston – We just find a turkey for Thanksgiving dinner. We don’t season our turkey at all, but we might stuff it with some fuzz. The turkey gets cooked in our oven for 12 minutes. We like it hot and served with macaroni, mashed potatoes, popcorn and pumpkin pie. Our turkey gets eaten at our home at night. I love to share Grandma and Grandpa and my friends.

Trey – We shoot our turkey in the forest. We like to use homemade seasoning and we stuff it with lemons, elk meat and whipped cream! We then cook the turkey on the grill for about like 30 minutes. We cook it at 10 degrees. I like to eat deer, chili and bread with my turkey dinner. We usually eat at Sundance Pond in the evening with Grandma, Grandpa, Uncle Troy, Aunt and the rest of my family.

Levi – We buy our turkey from the store. We don’t like to use any seasoning or stuffing. Our turkey gets cooked in the oven for about 100 minutes at 99 degrees. We eat a whole bunch of stuff with our turkey, sometimes deer meat. Usually, we eat our dinner inside our house at the table or the counter (because it is a really large counter). We like to eat right before we go to bed. I love sharing my dinner with my family!

Rhys – We hunt for our turkey. I don’t like any kind of seasoning on my turkey, but maybe my mom and dad would like it. We cook the turkey on the stove or in the oven for maybe like 10 minutes. I think we would cook it at one degree. We have a big dinner with our turkey that has jelly waterfalls, grapes and cucumbers! I think the dinner will be too big, so we will have to eat it at the dining room table. We will probably eat it in the early morning. I would love to share my turkey dinner with my family and maybe even my friends.