Students enrolled at Dayton Avenue, Eastport Elementary, South Street and Tuttle Avenue Schools celebrated the Thanksgiving season with an array of memorable activities.

On Nov. 21, Tuttle Avenue first gradersparticipatedin a Thanksgiving celebration, which recognized and honored all essential workers in their school along withthe veteransand active militaryin their community. It was a morning of poetry and song as each of the grade’s classrooms donned turkey and pilgrim headdresses and took to the stage to perform a variety of Thanksgiving holiday music and to recognize the important work that the faculty and staff do each day.

Dayton Avenue and Eastport Elementary School students in grades 3-6 flew “balloons” in individual Macy’s Department Store-like parades. A collaboration between STEAM and library classes, students worked on their balloon designs for the past two weeks. In library class, the students read Melissa Sweet’s “Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy’s Parade” and developed a concept and theme for their own balloons. During STEAM class and in the schools’ MakerSpace rooms, students created a balloon and paraded their designs through the perimeter of their school’s gymnasium.

South Street second graders also harvested the spirit through participation in Thanksgiving stations, which included Thanksgiving Bingo, making a turkey placemat, Model Magic turkey creations and balloons for a similar afternoon Balloons Over South Street parade.

Date Added: 11/26/2025