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Show Boulder Elementary Goes On Education Dinosaur Dig In A Big, Big, Big, Big Way By Colleen Thompson The Boulder Elementary School first graders and kindcrgartners under the direction of teacher Ada Cox have been studying about dinosaurs. They brought shovels, boxes, pointed slicks, and paint brushes for a special Dinosaur Dig last week. Ten students started digging. Soon a cry went up from one of them that had hit upon a large white object. The children all rushed to the one spot and unearthed what they concluded was a piece of leg bone. Another student dug up a jaw bone and after carefully brushing all the dirt away with a small paint brush, the group concluded it was a plant-eater because the teeth were large and flat. Soon another jaw bone appeared with long jagged tccih. They all agreed this was surely a meal-cater. The jewel of ihe day, painstakingly unearthed and brushed, was certainly a whole skeleton of a dinosaur as long as their school classroom. Dinosaurs, bone anatomy, and archaeology were well taught by the hands-on experience. The school culminated crcalive writing with an Author's Party on March 30. The celebrated authors shared their works with friends and relatives in the evening. The students presented a variety of different types of writing which included: stories, poetry (Haiku, one-line poems, math poems and name poems), photo essays, thesis paragraphs, Utah writings, descriptions, and directions. Writings were published with laminated covers, thanks to Susan Fullmer and spiral bindings supplies by Escalante High School. Students who did excellent work and showed promise as writers were Beth Fischer, Jessica Corderman, Molly Benson, Ry Cochran, Amelia LeFevre, Fatima LcFevre, Abby Pollock, Ira Pollock, Kaycee Eastman, Holly Hill, Matt Fischer, Anna LeFevre, Lacey Lyman, Ellie Pollock, Aruil LeFevre, Selina Todd, Ian Goehring, Nolan Lyman, Angela Fischer, Natalie Hill, Josh Owen and Rebeccah Vanlnwagen. |