Cops & Kids!

We had a BLAST last Thursday at our Cops and Kids event. We started in the cafeteria where we saw a police canine in action - it made some of us a little nervous to see how aggressive the dog could be, but we were relieved to see how well the dog listened to the officer, and how well he protected him as well! The officer reminded us to never touch a police dog without asking the officer first - a good reminder for all dogs, not just police dogs! Next we headed outside for an awesome presentation. We saw all sorts of police vehicles - cars, 4-wheelers, Segways, motorcycles and even a SWAT truck! We got to climb in and see what it was like to be inside most of these vehicles, including standing inside the SWAT truck on a big stool to peek out the top of the truck! Many of us chose patting the police horses as our favorite Cops & Kids activity! Check out the slideshow of pictures on the side of this page to get a glimpse of the fun we had!

Apple Day!

Apple Day was a HUGE success! Thank you to the families who sent in apples to share! We started the day by carefully slicing 16 apples into itty bits, scraping them into a crock pot, adding a bit of sugar and water and cooking our apples to make apple sauce. It took ALL day, and we could hardly wait until the end of the day when it would be ready! Here's a couple students sampling the goods:

While we waited, we made apple patterns using real apple colors and crazy apple colors (blue and pink??). We also weighed our apples to see how many cubes they were equal to! Kamden took the prize for the heaviest apple weighing in at 70 cubes! We stacked cubes to measure how tall our apples were and found that even our heaviest apples were the same height as our lightest apples. All in all, we had a GREAT day... and the applesauce was awesome!