Week of Monday, February 6

Tuesday, February 07, 2006
We changed the rules for valentine cards.  In the morning we do our writing, and in the afternoon we do our decorating.  We write them for everybody in the class so nobody will get missed.  We do lots of cards.  Some people have done more than others and some have done less than others.  For example, Savannah has done 14, Travis has done 19, Abby has done 7, Mckayla has done 8, Shelby has done 7, and Donna has done 11.  We are gluing paper cut-out hearts on to the cards.   Some of the decorations are string, glitter glue, stickers, traced hearts, flowers, rick rack, colored paper, straws, beads, and candy.

Thursday, February 09, 2006
We went to the police station.  We walked over with the other first grade class.  Jordan C.’s dad and Travis’ mom came with.  Officer Jamey and Officer Kevin showed us around the police department.  Officer Jamey had a black suit on, and Officer Kevin had a blue one on.  Officer Kevin told us we were at the town hall.  

They didn’t have a jail there.  We got to see the officer’s room.  We got to see the court room where the judge sits and the mayor sits.  They get to sit in the middle.  

We got to see the police car and we went through the back seat of it.  The back seat wasn’t very comfortable and it was hard.  It was made of plastic so that if the person in back threw up, the officers could just clean it up.  The doors at the back of the police car didn’t have any handles so the people couldn’t get out.  On the police car top they didn’t have the sirens: they had the sirens inside, but it was very loud.  It was so loud that it hurt people’s ears.  In the front of the car they had one little light and it kept on switching from red to blue.

They gave us stickers that say Junior Police Officer.  It was fantastic!