I was asked to teach the Enrichment Cooking Class this year at TIS.  The kids meet once a week for enrichment classes like hand bells, art, chess club, cooking club, etc.  I teach eighteen 1st through 3rd graders for about an hour.  It is pretty challenging to keep them all organized in the kitchen; thankfully, I have two Chinese teacher assistants to help.  Ding Laoshi is pictured in the lower right.  She is the one who also came to our Christmas cookie party.

The day before Thanksgiving, we made what I call, Turkey Fruit Gobblers.  You take skewers and make fruit kabobs with bananas, purple grapes, pineapples, kiwi, etc. and use them as the turkey feathers on a large youzi fruit.  For those in the States, a large grapefruit will do.  Then you take a cut piece of apple, red bell pepper and pineapple and form the head and feet.

The kids had a great time making their very own smaller turkey using oranges for the body and toothpicks for the feathers.