Thanksgiving Studies At Woodmere Elementary
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 2:28 PM
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SUSAN POAG / THE TIMES-PICAYUNE Woodmere Elementary School kindergarten teacher Ruth Ellison hugs student Germanee Washington as she put up recently completed "skins" on a reading teepee in her room as students Jeffery Rogers,Jr., Keianos McClendon and Caleb Barnes read inside Wednesday, November 16,2011. Ellison annually makes a teepee in her room around Thanksgiving time as a teaching and reward tool for students. The class has been studying about the first Thanksgiving and as part of the unit, Ellison taught how the indians communicated through drawings on animal skins and had the students make their own "skins" out of paper. Students can earn the right to read in the teepee for good behavior.