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Show Learning Experience Comes ircm Deer Season By Emma Dalton. Teacher Parowan Elementary School As the summer foliage changed chang-ed to brilliant autumn hues the third and fourth graders looked forward, with excitement and anticipation an-ticipation to the opening the deer hunting season. They shared the Interest of fathers and mothers as they prepared for the occasion. occa-sion. Many were going camping In the mountains, others were expecting ex-pecting friends and relatives to visit at their homes. Much of the pre-season excitement came to school each day with the boys and girls, out of which an enriching en-riching arithmetic experience evolved. Mary campers, trailers, jeeps and cars from our state and surrounding sur-rounding states were seen on the highway and around the community. commu-nity. A traffic survey was taken to find the increase of vehicles, both state and out-of-state, on the highway the week preceding the opening of deer season. The boys and girls found how much hunters must pay for licenses if a resident or a non-resident in the state of Utah. They checked the cost of ammunition for different rifles. Some fathers reicadM shells. The cost of new shells and reloaded ones were compared. Cost of gasoline per gallon was checked and prctlems were worked work-ed to find how much It would cost hunters to go from Parowan to some of the hunting districts in this vicinity. Students found that approxl-mately222,000 approxl-mately222,000 resident in Utah take part in hunting and fishing spending about $241 each a year. They also found that visitors and local hunters help the businessmen business-men In Parowan by increasing the sale of food, equipment and supplies. The third and fourth graders checked In the deer hides for the riA annual deer hide drive. Posters and bulletins were made by the boys and girls and put In the halls to help remind and encourage students to bring the hides to school. The hides were checked In each day. and receipts were given to students bringing them in. A record was kept of the higes given, their name and number. Announcements were made over the loud speaker to thank the ones who brought the hides and to keep the rooms informed in-formed each day. An announcement announce-ment was sent to KSUB, to remind re-mind friends and neighbors, who did not have pupils in school, about the drive and suggesting that doer hides might be given to the school. Also, to thank the many who had contributed hides. A bar graph was made and marked each day to show how many deer hides were brought by each room. Many problems were worked as the hides came to school to see how much money we would get for them. Problems were also solved concerning the amount of money the PTA would have to spend for school equipment if the Iron County School District matched the money received from the deer hides. t According to the records our leer hide project netted the PTA approximately $250. We wish to bank everyone for your interest and help. |