Rock Prairie Montessori School

On Thursday, November 13th we had our first all school assembly of the school year!  We were visited by the Janesville Police Department’s Officer Shaun Mahaffey and his partner K9 Hardy.  The children got to see how different this dog was from a dog they might have at home and what his importance is on the force.  Hardy is a full blooded german shepherd who was born and trained mostly in Germany.  One year ago he was introduced to Officer Mahaffey and the pair went through rigorous training in order to become Janesville’s first K9 unit.  The children listened and watched as Hardy was given his commands in German.  After which, they each got to pet Hardy.  They sang a gratitude of service song to Officer Mahaffey and K9 Hardy, and they got to walk through the area of the car where Hardy rides.  This was really quite fun and I believe the children thoroughly enjoyed it!

On Friday November 7th, we were thrilled to have one of our parents, Camille Makurat and her daughter Josie who is in Ms. Mary’s class give a informative presentation to our lunch time audience of students on their life in the Army. Major Makurat just retired from 20 years of service. Josie is 4 years old and helped her Mom show us all what MRE’s are (meals ready to eat), discussed her uniform, and metals. We all learned how veterans help keep our country safe. We ended the presentation with the students singing our service song: “We thank you we do, we thank you we do, we thank you for service, we thank you we do!”