Highland County Public Schools

MONTEREY — Feeling unsure about creating the perfect meal this Thanksgiving? Highland Elementary School preschoolers have got you covered, below, with everything you need to know.

I go home and get my turkey. It’s in the freezer. I put it in the oven for three minutes. It’s hot. My brother plays a game. Can’t eat! It’s hot! Mommy cuts it up and puts it in a bowl. We eat stuffing, mac ‘n cheese, and strawberry cake. I eat with Mommy, Daddy, Booger, Sissy, Mooch, and Nan.

~ Aiden, age 5

I go to the corn farm to get my turkey ‘cause there are no dollar stores open. That’s where my buckets are. My mom goes with me. We have to go up the mountains. I pick the black one. Pack up and go home. Shave the feathers off. Sprinkle salt and pepper on it. Cook it in the microwave for five minutes at five temperature. Put it on a platter. Put pepper on it. Put on a plate. We make pizza, peanut butter and jelly, mac n cheese, pepperoni, waffles, and squirrel soup. Pappy went squirrel hunting and he killed three of them. We have ice cream. Chocolate, vanilla and sprinkles. Play games, Paw Patrol.

~ Atlee, age 5

I won it! I wash it in the sink. I brush it. Put it in a towel. Put it in the oven. I bake it for three days. I put butter on it. I eat it with birthday cake. I want orange juice. Mommy, Daddy, Levi, Aiden, Lyla, Tucker, Evie eat with me. It’s really yummy!

~ Autumn, age 3

My daddy and I go into the woods. He has something that goes around him and he puts water in it. I carry my BB gun. It’s not real. Well, it will shoot stuff. If you point it at the mirror of the truck, it will come back and shoot you in eye so you have to be careful. Daddy carries the real gun. It’s a ‘66. We hide behind a tree. You wait four hours and he will come toward me. Daddy makes a turkey call. I shoot at him. He flaps around. We pull the feathers off. Throw it on the truck and drive home. Home is not that far. We cut him and put him in the microwave for 40 minutes at hot. Put it on everyone’s plate. We put barbecue sauce on him and a little bit of salt and a little bit of pepper. We make peppers and mac ‘n cheese, mashed potatoes, green beans, tomatoes, pork chops, and tacos. We have all the desserts ‘cause that’s what people eat! We eat all the desserts then we go to bed.

~ Axel, age 4

I go in the woods with Mommy, Daddy, and Sissy. Make a turkey sound, “Gibble, gobble, gobble.” Daddy shoots it. Cut the feathers off with a knife. Give it a bath at my house. Put it in the microwave and cook it for 10 minutes at 10 hot. Take it out and put it on a plate and cut it in more pieces. Cut it small, like this (puts her first finger and thumb together and makes her eye smaller). Put pepper and jalapenos and banana peppers on it. I eat it with ketchup. I eat sweet potatoes, ‘matoes, tots and Captain Crunch cereal. I eat strawberry cake and rainbow cake with vanilla, chocolate and strawberry and yellow cake. Everyone goes to sleep!

~ Elizabeth, age 4

From the chicken farm, ’cause there’s only one turkey and you have to shoot it at the top of the barn. You can’t shoot at the barn ‘cause the barn will explode. I smell them all and the one that smells good, I bring home. You clean it off. You get scissors and you cut the feathers off. Put it in the oven for 16 minutes at very hot. It’s a big chicken. The oven beeps. Put hot sauce on the chicken. I eat cupcakes, rainbow cake and M&Ms. Then I go to bed and take a nap and wake up and play with my cat, Daisy.

~ Evie, age 4

Daddy and sometimes my mommy go to the dollar store. They get the shiny one. We cook at MeMe’s house. We cook turkey, mashed potatoes and we also have cole slaw. Put the turkey in the oven for like one minute at hot. We hear the ding. It’s done! We put ketchup on it. We cook sweet potatoes. We have ice cream, mint chocolate chip. That’s my favorite and my mommy’s favorite!

~ Evie Rose, age 4

I go to the woods down the road. My daddy’s got my bye-knocklers. He looks and I say, “Coo, coo, coo.” I hear, “Bac, bac, bac.” I start dancing! I shoot it with my gun. I have a bear gun. “Boom!” I cut his neck to eat him for dinner. Shave his feathers off with my saw. Spray with the hose. I put him in the fryer forever, 50 hours. Take him out of the fryer with my knife. It is sharp! Cut him up. Put lots of butter and salt. Pass out to my family. Mommy makes mac ‘n cheese out of the box. I eat mashed potatoes. My dad washes the dishes. We go outside and play cowboys!

~ Gabe, age 4

I go in the woods with Mommy and Daddy. Look up the tree. Say, “Gobble, gobble.” The turkey comes down the tree. Cut the tree with a chainsaw. The turkey falls down. Pick up the turkey. Daddy put him in the side by side. Go home, right next to Mimi’s house. Mommy cuts the feathers off with a golden knife. Wash it in my sink. Put it in the pan and put sprinkles on him. Put the turkey on the stove. Cook him for two minutes at hot. Put him in a bowl. Eat it with a fork and knife. Mommy makes green beans, apples, mashed potatoes, and pies. She make a blueberry pie. Pop Pop makes healthy foods, apples, green beans, mac ‘n cheese. He loves me! Mimi decorates the table. Daddy watches TV. Eat it all! Wash your hands. We work on the roof.

~ Hailey, age 4

I go into the woods with my daddy and Grandpa. You follow the footsteps of the turkey. My granddaddy has a fart gun. He cocks it back and it goes “puuurrrff!” “Bac, bac,” says the turkey. Then my grandpa cocks his gun back and it goes “Pop!” He shot it! Then I aim the gun on him and tell him, “I see the blood run out of him.” You can’t use your missile gun ‘cause it gets too bloody! You carry it home. It’s gonna be a long way ‘cause we drive there. Cook the feathers off in the fire. Stuff it all in our big oven. Cook the turkey for five minutes until the feathers are all cooked off. We just heat it up. We cook a bunch of duck wings. We cook mac ‘n cheese, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, and candy. We have that for dessert. Mommy says it’s too much sugar. We eat it all up and then we watch a movie!

~ Jesse, age 4

I go to the dollar store to get my turkey. I have a list of turkeys. It has to be on the list. I find the shiny one. I pay $10. I go home in my dad’s truck. I cut off the feathers off with a knife. Put it in a bowl and cook it in the oven for 10 minutes at hot. The alarm goes off and you know it’s done! I put applesauce on it. I eat it. My dad and my mom eat with me. Remember the lady in the red car? Her name is Gaga. She eats with us. I eat chicken and milk and carrot cake. After I eat, I wash my hands. That’s it!

~ Lorrissa, age 4

We go to the Hackens with my mommy and dada and my brother. Daddy looks very carefully and takes a shot at it. He gets it! Clean it and put it in a bag and cook it in the oven for four minutes at 35 degrees. Stick a temperature stick in it and see if it’s done. You wait until it says it’s done. Take it out of the oven and put it on a pan with paper on it and then you cut it. Dada cuts it with a sharp knife. Put salt and pepper on it. We eat it. Eat it with mashed potatoes and broccoli and strawberry and blueberry pie. My grandma and my Pap Pap come and eat with me. Then we play with toys and baby dolls.

~ Lyla, age 4

We don’t have no turkeys! The hunter took ‘em all! We are gonna sneak from the farm to the turkey farm. I was at home sick. Daddy grabbed him like this! Shave his feathers off with my daddy’s shaving cream. Daddy throws him in the fire! (How long do you cook the turkey?) “Humm, let me think … one hour.” Daddy gets him out of the fire with gloves. Put it on a plate. Put Sprite on the turkey. Eat it all up! I eat it with mashed taters, pizza, salad, and a blue cake.

~ Malachi, 5

I get my turkey in Monterey at the store. Go to the toy shelf. Pick the pretty one. She has beads. Drive it home. Clean it in the bathroom. Put in a pot. Put in the oven for days at hot. Get out of the kitchen! It’s hot! Eat it. Eat pizza, pop, cake. Go to school.

~ Nova, age 3

I go to Paw Paw’s turkey house. I pick that one (pointing). I shoot it. White gun. Cut the feathers off with scissors. Throw them away. Take it to Grandma’s house. She cooks it. She cuts it with a knife. She puts it in the oven for seven days. Put nothing on it. Eat nothing else, just turkey. Go to the truck ‘cause we are going somewhere else. We go to the beach!

~ Owen, age 4

My dad and me go in the woods. I carry a 6 gun. I make a noise, you just put that deer thing that you go hunting with in your mouth and it goes “baaccc.” Then you kill it with the scope. You pull the feathers off. It takes 15 minutes. Then you gotta shoot it again like my daddy. You got to cut it at the neck so you can eat it. You drive it home. You get a frying pan. Have to shoot it again like my daddy. You cook on the stove for five minutes at 16 hot. You put ketchup on it. I eat mac ‘n cheese, hamburgers, chicken nuggets, greens, sausage gravy and carrot cake. My daddy cooks it all. I help him! You go outside and go hunting!

~ Saw, age 4

Go to Mawmaw’s. I cut it. I dip it in the water. I eat turkey. Play with my toys. I build my magna tiles.

~ Tucker, age 3

Go to the Dollar General. Cook it in microwave. Two days. Eat with pumpkin pie, sweet potatoes, green beans. Eat it.

~ Weston, age 4

From the store. To the chicken store but they only have chickens. They’re out of turkeys ‘cause they took the turkeys away. Cut it up with a big knife! The bad guys threw them outside. Throw it in the pan and you make it into mac ‘n cheese. Throw it in the big microwave to melt the cheese. Mommy makes pizza, hot dogs and pumpkin pie. I put M&Ms on my pumpkin pie. My mommy, daddy, Calvin, Jesse, Grandma, Grandad, my momma’s dad, eat with me. My mommy eats it all! It makes me burp. Go to the store and get real toys!

~ William, age 3