Saturday, September 18, 2010

Community Helpers-Sheriff

This week at school, the kids are learning about Community Helpers....Doctors, Nurses, Police Officers, Postal Workers, Dentists, Fire Fighters....lots of different kinds of helpers.
Today was Police Officer day, so a Kern County Sheriff Deputy came to see the kids.

They started inside with a short question and answer time.

Most of the kids 'questions' were completely unrelated. After several other kids raised their hands to say their parents were teachers, or nurses, or they had dogs or cats, Madison raised her hand and told the officer she saw a coyote in the field by our house today...which is true- but not related to the officer's visit.

After attempting to explain the items on his belt, magazine clips, a firearm, evidence locker keys....the officer quickly noticed he was losing the kids interest

(he didn't really understand the pre-school level and used words and terms completely foreign to little kids)

so he recommended we move outside to the patrol car....which sent up a cheer from the kids!
We walked single file outside and sat down on the curb

each student got a turn one at a time, to sit in the driver's seat and/or crawl through the back of the patrol car.

The officer turned off his computer, sirens, and other important buttons so the kids couldn't hurt anything or themselves

He was even kind enough to bleach out the plastic bucket seats and flooring in the 'bad guy' part of the car so the kids could see (hopefully for the last time!) what it looks like back there.

While Mommy took pictures of all the kids for the school director, Miss Jayne held Kennedy. Kennedy loves Miss Jayne, but was definitely in Mommy-mode after having an exhausting day and vaccination the day before.

Miss Lyndsey took Kennedy back to class with the rest of the 2-3 yr olds so Mommy could stay out and take class pictures with the officer for Madison's class and the Kindergarten class.

Then the big kids walked over and sat on the curb by the school where the sheriff gave each student a gold star badge sticker and crayons with special rulers.

Then the kids asked to hear the sirens (Madison readied herself)

When the kids were a safe distance away, the officer turned on his lights, flipped on the sirens and sped out of the parking lot in 'hot pursuit' of a bad guy....just for pretend.

That was definitely the kids favorite part!

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