GOOD MORNING AND HAPPY FRIDAY!
Smokin Steers Qualify for State Competition- Congratulations to the Smokin Steers Team (Landon Locker, Lucio Arvizu, Jesus Gonzalez, and Oscar Bryan Sanchez) on their Reserve Grand Champion finish at the Graham TX HS BBQ Cookoff. This qualifies the team to compete at the state contest in Round Rock next spring. Each team member wins a $2000 scholarship. Results: 1st Mansfield Ben Barber Innovation Academy; 2nd Graham, 3rd 205 Pitmasters culinary school Rockwall.
Graham HS Choir- Five amazing musicians from GHS performed in the Regions 5 & 7 Clinic & Concert today. They qualified for this honor after auditioning in October. Congratulations to Jayden Harrell, Georgina Guerrero, Maddie Franklin, Kodie Gough, & Gaby Wooters! Two of these ladies are advancing to the Area contest in January! Congratulations Kodie G. - 5th Chair Soprano and Georgina G. - 5th Chair Tenor. Amazing job, ladies!
Highridge Church Providing Shoes- Highridge Church is providing a pair of shoes for school-aged children ages 4-18! The deadline to register your children is November 24th. Register at this link- https://www.firstblessing.org/crf-highridge-church-graham…
Serving Our Steers Program is Growing- The Serving Our Steers (S.O.S.) ministry program began with East Side Church of Christ adopting Woodland Elementary. This week we learned that First Baptist Graham has decided to adopt Graham Junior High School. We are thankful to these groups for volunteering to serve our students and staff.
Being Thankful...
We are about to embark on our Thanksgiving break. Hopefully, each of you will have the opportunity to spend some special time with family, good friends, and good food reflecting on the blessings with which we are showered!
Being thankful does not only happen on Thanksgiving Day!
When Mrs. Klein asked her first graders to draw a picture of something for which they were thankful, it crossed her mind how little these children who lived in a deteriorating neighborhood truly had. From experience, she knew that most of the children in the class would draw pictures of turkeys or bountifully laden Thanksgiving tables. After all, wasn’t that what was expected of them?
What took Mrs. Klein aback was Douglas’s picture. Douglas was a forlorn child, one likely to be found close in her shadow when recess time came. Douglas’s drawing was simple. It was a picture of a lone hand.
The class became captivated by the image. “Whose hand is it?” one student shouted. Another cried, “It’s the hand of God that brings us food, isn’t it Douglas?” Soon every student in the classroom added their own interpretation to Douglas’s drawing. “A farmer because they grow turkeys.” It looks like a policeman’s, and they protect us.” “Maybe it’s all of the hands that help us, but Douglas could only draw one of them.”
Mrs. Klein was so delighted about her class’s responsiveness to Douglas’s drawing she had almost forgotten about Douglas. When she had the other children busy on another task, she leaned quietly over Douglas’s desk and whispered, “Whose hand is it, Douglas?
Douglas mumbled, “It’s yours.”
Mrs. Klein recalled that she had from time to time taken Douglas by the hand; she often did that with all of the children. But that it meant so much to Douglas…
Perhaps, she thought, this was her Thanksgiving – not the things that we get, but the small ways that we give something to others.
Isn’t it great to work in a profession where every day is truly Thanksgiving Day?!!
CORNY THANKSGIVING JOKES!
"What did the turkey say to the turkey hunter on Thanksgiving Day?" "Quack, Quack!"
"Why did the farmer have to separate the chicken and the turkey?" "He sensed fowl play."
"What key has legs and can't open a door?" "A turkey.
"Why did they let the turkey join the band?" "Because he had his own drumsticks."
"What happened to the turkey that got in a fight?" "He got the stuffing knocked out of him!"
"Why shouldn't you sit next to a turkey at dinner?" "Because he will gobble it up."
"If you call a big turkey a gobbler, what do you call a small one?" "A goblet."
"What do you call a running turkey?" "Fast food."\
"What's blue and covered in feathers?" "A turkey holding its breath."
"Why did the turkey cross the road?" "He wanted people to think he was a chicken."
"Why was the turkey put in jail?" "The police suspected fowl play."
"How come the turkey didn't eat dinner?" "He was already stuffed."
"What did the turkey say to the computer?" "Google, google."
"What do you get if you cross a turkey with a ghost?" "A poultry-geist."
"What kind of weather does a turkey like?" "Fowl weather."
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