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The Refugee Family's First Thanksgiving
A family resettled in America, far from the home they left, sitting down to a holiday they've never had before, at a table set by people they'd only just met.
This Week · Gratitude · Thanksgiving lead-in
Gratitude: what are you thankful for that's easy to forget?
For littler ones: What's something good that happens every day that you forget to say thank you for?
Thanksgiving is coming, and the big things are easy — a birthday, a snow day, a whole pie to yourself. This week we're wondering about the rest. What are you thankful for that's easy to forget? It's a good one for the drive, or for the table before the plates come out.
This week's stories
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The Children of Charleston Carry the Roses
In May 1865, the freed Black residents of Charleston, South Carolina, gave a proper burial to Union soldiers who had died in a Confederate prison camp, and the children of that freed community carried armfuls of roses to the graves — what many historians now call the earliest Memorial Day.
Talk about it
- What's something good in your day that's always just there — that you'd really miss if it were gone?
- When has someone made you feel welcome somewhere new?
- Why do you think people go to so much trouble to make sure others are remembered?
A new question every week.
Listen together in the app — short audio stories for kids 4–10, at bedtime, on the drive, in the drop-off line.
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