Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday celebrated as a day of giving thanks for the blessing of the harvest and of the preceding year. It is celebratedon the fourth Thurday of November in the United States.

History:In 1620 a group of people left the south coast of England to live in America. The local tribe, the Wampanoag Indians, taught these Europeans how to plant corn and catch the local fish. As a result, the following autumn the settlers had collected enough food to survive the winter. As a thank you, the Europeans invited the native Americans to a feast which lasted three days.

National Day of Celebration

Thanksgiving had feasts in the autumn to give thanks that they had enough to eat, but it hasn’t become a national celebration until hundreds of years later.In 1863 finally it become a national celebration.

The day after thanksgiving has marked the start of Christmas shopping with stores reducing their prices sometimes by over 50%.

CYBER MONDAY

Cyber Monday, the following Monday, is the day for online bargain. Billions of dollars are

spent on Black Friday and Cyber Monday

In the 1920s one of New York’s most famous departments stores began a parade through the streets of the city to celebrate Thanksgiving.

Now thw parade is famous for its fifteen enormous balloons depicting favourite children’s characters.

Macy’s Parade

What do they eat on Thanksgiving?

Squash soup Roasted turkey

Potatoes and

sweet

potatoes

Green beans and carrots

Cranberry sauce

Cornbread

And…

Pumpkin Pie