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Show Thursday, July 19, 2007 OR EM TIMES Page 5 notes NEWS AND IDEAS FROM CLASSROOMS AND EDUCATORS Dinosnorzzz keeping kids awake Cathy Allred NORTH COUNTY STAFF "Dinoslayers" stomped "The group that can beat John's group" at Thanksgiving Point's Dinosnorzzz scavenger hunt Friday night. Group leader Jeff Bond said his group's name was a hopeful hope-ful one. "That's because we beat his group every month," group leader John Bass said and grinned. "That's because we cheat." Fifty-three children, ages 4-14, 4-14, arrived at 7 p.m. ready for adventure, alert and excited. First they watched a newly released re-leased 3-D movie on dinosaurs and got a guided tour of the museum. The scavenger hunt followed fol-lowed with clues hidden in museum exhibits. Participants were supposed to find the exhibits that went with the clues. Both losers and "cheaters" of the hunt got to choose prizes, priz-es, a colorful dinosaur mask or a flying dinosaur made from styrofoam. Whether traveling from far away or living in Thanksgiving Thanksgiv-ing Point's shadow, the families fami-lies come to have fun. Sari Schachtel's family from Palm Springs, Calif., spends their summers in Prescott and visited Thanksgiving Point last year. "My kids talked about it all winter," Schachtel said. The Roedersheimers of If you go Dinosnorzzz When: Second weekend of every month Where: Museum of Ancient Life Cost: $39 per child, $29 per adult, $4 discount per person with Thanksgiving Point membership Contact: 766-5015 Web site: w'ww.thanksgiv-ingpoint.com Eagle Mountain have been to the museum before too. Katelyn Roedersheimer, age 4, likes the "Our Earth begins ..." room with its myriad of stars twinkling in the darkness. dark-ness. "It feels like you're flying," fly-ing," she said softly. But her favorite activity at Dinosnorzzz isn't sleeping under the stars, but under the dinosaurs. Kelley Giles came with her son Noah Giles, age 8, and two of his cousins. Their older cousins got to go to Dinosnorzzz Dinos-norzzz earlier in the summer and Friday was their turn. Tessa Giles said she wanted to sleep by the fish tank instead in-stead of under the dinosaur. She got her wish. Wayne Jackman of Sandy brought eight girls including two daughters, 11 and 13, for their birthday. It is also Dinosnorzzz's birthday. In its seventh year, the sleepover activity has evolved into a fully developed program. The scavenger hunt has been added and a hot breakfast break-fast of cinnamon rolls and waffles with juice. For the adults, there is hot coffee or caffeinated soda to help them make it through the last two hours of the program. Some of the younger children chil-dren had bed heads and a zombie gaze during the morning morn-ing activities. When asked the time they went to sleep early Saturday morning, the teenagers shout out "Two" and look quite pleased with themselves. Jack-man, Jack-man, however, mouths "four" and nods his head emphatically. emphati-cally. "That's a little late, but we had some older kids," Bass said. The group leaders spend the night in the lobby in case a sleepwalker or confused preschooler pre-schooler should wander away from their family. Some of the younger kids and a few parents are looking a bit sleepy by 9 a.m. "That's OK, we'll catch up," Schachtel said. "That's all that matters. It's better than camping camp-ing outside." CATHY ALLREDNorth County Wayne Jackman of Sandy brought eight girls including two daughters for their birthday to the Thanksgiving Point Dinosnorzzz. Right, Wayne Jackman helps Paige Jackman, 11, and Jacey Stewart, 1 1, with their triceratops 3-D wood puzzles. After just a few hours of sleep, one 6-year-old was too excited to sleep, there's a quick trip to the restrooms and everyone meets for breakfast. break-fast. The three groups begin rotating between building 3-D triceratops puzzles, folding origami dinos or gently chipping chip-ping away stone from a fossil. Group leaders toss out jokes and tall tales about the museum mu-seum while they guide their guests through the activities. "I don't recommend you fold your laundry this way," Bond says while folding origami ori-gami dinosaurs. Bass relates to his group how replicas of fossils were made drove the staff crazy for about a month. They were originally made out of a softer material, he said. "When the heaters in the museum kicked on, the fossils would soften up and collapse," Bass said. "The paleontologists would pose dinosaurs reading in the bathroom or leaning up against walls. "They decided they needed to use harder material for the dinosaurs," he said. A quiet buzzing noise comes from the paleontology room on the other side of the museum mu-seum from the origami and puzzle stations. Wearing safety glasses and using air stribes, children softly drill stone away from their Green River formation imported from Wyoming revealing re-vealing fish fossils shapes. "They are 15-million-year-old original fossils," Rick Hunter of Lehi, Thanksgiving Point paleontologist, said. Registration for Dinosnorzzz Dinos-norzzz can be made at the Museum Mu-seum of Ancient Life at 3003 N. Thanksgiving Way, Lehi, or by calling 766-5015. More information on the program is available at www.thanksgiv-ingpoint.com. www.thanksgiv-ingpoint.com. Cost is $39 per child and $29 per adult. There is a $4 discount per person with their Thanksgiving Point membership. HARRY POTTER EVENTS Hutchings Museum I Advanced Wizards Half Day Students will study advanced potions, Quidditch (weather permitting), magical magi-cal creatures in Amber, and spend an hour with master magician Professor Neilson from the Mayan. Each witch and wizard will also receive his or her own Harry Potter Delta Education Secret Sightings Sight-ings Optical Illusions kit along with tons of magical things to take to your muggle home. The class is July 30 from 12:30-4:30 12:30-4:30 p.m. for ages 8-12. Cost is $50. I Time Turner Yule Ball The museum will host the Time Turner Yule Ball on July 31 from 6-9 p.m. Cost is $28 and is an activity geared for 8- to 14-year-olds. There are eight prefect positions available avail-able for 14-to 16-year-olds. A magical night of complete mysterious games, live animal and chemistry magic (make your own edible potion). Participants Par-ticipants must come dressed as a wizard or magical being. American Fork Library I Library hosts Harry Potter Pot-ter movie marathon The American Fork Public Library is having a Harry Potter Movie Marathon The movies start at 6:30 p.m. and are free but those who attend must reserve a seat there is a limit of 60 people. Movies are made possible by a grant from Target stores. July 23 will feature "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Az-kaban." Az-kaban." There will be a Harry Potter Pot-ter birthday party for all ages on July 30 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Tickets cost $5 per family. Attendees At-tendees may take classes in transfiguration and divination, contribute to the newest edition edi-tion of "The Monster Book of Monsters," visit Honeyduke's for a treat, and help Neville find his toad. They will earn points for their house in the competition for the coveted Housecup. And, if they dare, they may snatch a dragon's egg- Lehi City Public Library I Harry Potter Day This popular activity at the Lehi City Public Library now requires re-quires registration. Children can sign up at the library, 120 N. Center St., for a two-hour session of games, activities and giveaways. The library's final celebration for "the boy who lived," muggles are invited in-vited as well as wizards (in costume). The library will be closed on July 28 as the "elves" will lx; on strike the day following fol-lowing the party. Eagle Mountain Public Library I Harry Potter in "Deathly Hallow's" J.K.Rowling's "Deathly I lallows" will be released on July 21 and the Eagle Mountain Public Library has preordered three copies. The rxxks will not be put on hold until the library receives the copies the following week. Pleasant Grove Public Library I "Deathly Hallow's" released re-leased Nearly 100 people could be waiting for the midnight toll at the Pleasant Grove Library on Friday night to check out "Harry Poiter in the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling. The Pleasant Grove Public Library staff will opening open-ing the library at that time so patrons could have the rxxk at the same time as those who purchase it at stores. There will be approximately 28 Deathly Hallow bxks, cassettes and CDs available. Those who are first in line and have been on the year-old waiting list will be allowed to check the items out. The library is located at 30 E. Center Cen-ter St. Reflections I PTA Reflections contest The Parent Teacher's Association has announced the theme for the 2007-2008 school year as "I can make a difference by Subjects falling within that theme can be painted, photographed, sculpted, danced, written, played or sung. The Intermountain Medical Group is pleased to welcome Kirk Leininger, ' MD, to our team. Officed in Provo at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center, Dr. Leininger specializes in nonsurgical treatment of patients with back and neck pain, as well as other musculoskeletal injuries. He also treats patients with stroke, brain injury and spinal cord injury, including complications from those problems. He performs nerve conduction tests and EMGs and does Botox injections for muscle spasticity (not cosmetic reasons). Appointments may be scheduled by calling 357-8818. . 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