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Alacia Beeson, second grade “There’s miniturkeys and big turkeys. If you cook three mini ones, you put them in the stove, in a pot — a big, black pot — for 28 minutes. At 30 degrees. And then you’re all done. You eat them. You can put lettuce and a huge tomato on top.”

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Terek Stoll, first grade “First we always get the turkey from the store and then we just put it in the oven and it lasts for a couple minutes, for 20 hours and 30 seconds. Then you get it out and take the skin out. Then it tastes like turkey.”

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Kyle Ramer, second grade “You either hunt it or you buy it. You take the feathers off, and then you get the stuff inside of it out, and then you stuff it and cook it and cut it and slice it. You cook it about 30 minutes, maybe. It’s a big, big turkey — 30 (pounds), 40 maybe.”

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Kemi Ojeleye, first grade “You just put your hand on the paper, and you trace your hand, and then the thumb is the head and then you start making the legs.” (So, how do you make a real turkey?) “Oh. I don’t know that.”

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Geraldlynn Guingao, first grade “First, you hunt for a turkey. Then you put the stuffing in there, the stuff that makes it good. Then you put it in the oven, and you take it out and put salt on it. And that’s how you make a turkey. It takes eight minutes.”

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Amiyah Sanders, first grade “You look for a turkey and you have to go to a store and buy it, or go hunt a turkey and then you have to cook it. With salt. And pepper.”

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Micah Barron, first grade “Shoot it and then you pull off its skin. Then pull out the bones. Some people don’t like bones.”

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Chase Felmlee, second grade “You put the turkey in the oven, and then there’s this little thing — once it pops up, it’s red. Once it pops up, you take it out of the oven. Probably takes a half an hour.”

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Kevin Honas, second grade “You put spice on it and you will want to stuff it.”

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Samuel Yeadon, second grade “You put it in the oven for, like, two hours and 30 seconds, and then you put the stuffing inside of it, and that’s how you cook a turkey. It’s easy. I did it before. I’m half German. They don’t pluck the feathers out. They cook it first. They cook it, chop off the head, and take the feathers out and stuff it and cook it again. You cook it the first time for, like, one hour and 30 seconds. Then, the next time, you cook it for 30 minutes and 50 seconds. It’s good.”

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Taikai Morrison, first grade “What’s 10 plus 10? 20. You cook it for 20 minutes. … I can tell you how to make cookies.”