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Carrollwood Students Live As The Pilgrims Lived

Tribune photo by CLIFF McBRIDE

Katya Wood, left, and Sofia Kaminsky, both 5, "harvest" their crops at Independent Day School. The kids are learning about planting and harvesting the way it would have been done by the pilgrims.

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: November 26, 2008

CARROLLWOOD - First they boarded the Mayflower. Then they had to learn to grow vegetables, thatch roofs, fish and weave.

Kindergartners and preschoolers at Independent Day School spent two weeks immersed in Pilgrim life as teachers sought to put history into a context today's children could understand.

The group capped their project last week with a Thanksgiving feast of deli turkey rolled into tubes, mashed potatoes, vegetable soup and juice boxes.

A tradition at the private school, the "Living Thanksgiving" starts in classrooms with discussions about who the Pilgrims were and why they came to the United States. Children wove placemats with construction paper strips and made hats and collars to wear as Pilgrims.

"It's helping them live in it and really understand what it was like so many years ago," said teacher Lauren Bronson.

Courtney Cairns Pastor

Reviews Begin At Nursing Home

ST. PETERSBURG - State officials are taking steps to revoke the license of a nursing home here, maintaining it does not meet various standards of care.

The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration has not issued a deadline for Long Term Care of St. Petersburg to close, but the agency has ordered the nursing home to begin evaluating patients at the facility, at 3479 54th Ave. N., to determine types of facilities suitable for their placement.

Derrick Webster, acting director of the nursing home, said he is appealing the decision, but agency officials say they have no record of an appeal being filed.

Rod Challenger

Tree Sales To Benefit Kids

BRANDON - First United Methodist Church is selling Christmas trees in the parking lot at 115 N. Knights Ave., Brandon, behind the Grand Prix Car Wash one block north of State Road 60 between Kings and Parsons avenues.

Proceeds will benefit the Florida United Methodist Children's Home. The lot will be open from 3:30-8:30 p.m. Monday to Friday, 10 a.m.-8:30 p.m. Saturdays and noon-6 p.m. Sundays.

For information, call Sharon Kuebler at (813) 689-4161 or e-mail secretary@fumcbrandon.org.

Felix L. Martinez

Children's Home Gets A Hand

TOWN 'N COUNTRY - The Children's Home in Tampa, which serves area foster children, has some extra financial support thanks to BJ's Wholesale Clubs.

The retailer just gave The Children's Home $5,000 toward its residential treatment program designed to provide a nurturing family setting to children traumatized by neglect, abuse and abandonment.

Michele Sager

Burgert Calendar Makes History

TAMPA - Here's a chance to keep your dates straight and learn about Tampa Bay area history, too.

The 12th edition of the Burgert Brothers Calendar is now available featuring photographs from the Burgert Brothers photograph collection, which contains almost 15,000 images of the Tampa Bay area from the late 1800s to 1950s.

The calendar costs $5 if purchased at any Hillsborough County public library or at the Tampa Bay History Center. It costs $6 at Barnes & Noble, Inkwood Books in south Tampa and H.B. Plant Museum.

Lenora Lake

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