On the tables there are crafts and food. One year we even had a fortune teller. Every other year in mid-November Eliot has an authentic Thanksgiving Celebration. Classes study the lives of Native Americans and the Pilgrims in the early 1620's. They studied the food they ate, how they dressed and what they did for work or to busy themselves during the day.
Many students are in costumes of the time period.
Middle School and students from the other grades sit together at tables and enjoy their meals. The International Festival is a school activity that happens every other year. The classes in the other levels study a country and each student studies one individual thing about it. The festival happens in mid-winter, January or Feburary. Family, friends and of course the whole school comes to the festival.