Part A
Bryan
Bones are in owl pellets.
Rodent bones go into a pellet.
When an owl eats a shrew,
When an owl eats a mole,
mole bones go into a pellet.
When an owl eats a bird,
bird bones go into a pellet.
Owls are great.
Owls are the best.
October
2, 2000
When my partner and I were digging, I was excited.
Some bones came out of the pellet. We found lots of jaws of rodents and
lots of teeth of rodents. We found assorted vertebrae pieces. We glued
some of the bones. It was getting a little boring. It took so much time.
It was getting a little tiring at the end of the day.
October
3, 2000
My
partner and I are almost done with the bones.
We found lots of bones.
Big ones.
Small Ones.
It’s hard to find a shoulder blade.
All we found was rodent bones.
We found lots of jaws and loose teeth.
Nobody found a shoulder blade.
Part B
Bryan Page 2
October
4, 2000
They study
bones.
My class
and I were talking about bones.
Human
bones.
Owl pellet
bones.
Now dinosaur
bones.
Dinosaurs
are cool.
Dinosaurs
are great.
The
owl pellets are like digging for dinosaurs in the sand because the fur
is like sand and the bones are like dinosaur bones because they’re old.
October
6, 2000
Paleontologists are interesting. They are
interesting because they study dinosaur bones. Their job is different
from doing owl pellets because dinosaur bones are older than rodent bones.
They’re different because dinosaur bones are bigger than rodent bones.
They’re different because rodent bones come with fur. Dinosaurs and rodents
are the same because if they had no bones they would be like a jellyfish.
Some things are the same. Some things are different.
Phomaly
September
29, 2000
When we did our owl pellet we had to choose a partner.
We found lots of bones. It was fun, but it made our hands dirty. My partner
was Angelina. We go to each other’s house. Angelina and I found lots of
bones. Sometimes the fur made me sneeze. It was a mess.
October
2, 2000
Angelina and I found a lot of bones. We found the head,
ribs, vertebrae, tail, and little tiny bones. We cleaned the bones and
we looked for some more bones. It was very hard because some of the bone
is very small It was fun to do, but very hard to see the bones. Harder
than anything.
Paulina
Yesterday we dug up pellets from owls.
We had partners. My partner was Khawlah. It was fun and exciting. We found
the ulna and radius. We also found a feather. We think it’s a shrew. Owl
pellets are cool.
When we cleaned the owl pellets it
was hard because the fur wouldn’t come out. Khawlah was cleaning them.
I was finding out which bone goes on which bone. It was fun because we
got to glue. We finished cleaning the big bones.
When we finished our owl pellet we
found 2 jaws from a mole. It was fun. I found the hind legs. We also found
one vertebra and one loose tooth. We had no skull. Khawlah found a vertebra.
It was exciting.
October
7, 2000
Owl pellet bones and dinosaur bones
are the same because they both need cleaning. They both need to be put
in a special place. The job is the same because you need to clean and
put them somewhere safe. Something different is the dinosaur bones are
bigger. I wonder if it’s hard.
Salman
My partner and I found four jaws and
we did not find any shrew jaws. We found vertebrae and we did not find
shoulder blades. We thought we had a mole jaw, but we didn’t. We had lots
of teeth.
October
4, 2000
Owl pellets are different than dinosaurs
because the bones in owl pellets are different than dinosaur bones. The
dinosaur skull is different and the body is big. The owl pellet body is
small.
Susan
Today my class is working on owl pellets.
My partner is Marjan. We dug through an owl pellet and found a dead rodent.
Marjan found the skull. I put the bones together. We found something coming
from his skull. I thought it was a bone, but Marjan said it was a tooth.
On Friday my class again worked on
owl pellets. Marjan was my partner. It was hard, but we figured it out.
We wanted to build the animal that we found and put it together. Marjan
said it was hard and said he couldn’t do it. Also I thought it was hard
but I wanted to try. I started a little and finished, but not that much.
The bell rang and we stopped. I like doing owl pellets.
October
3, 2000
Marjan and I are working on owl pellets.
Marjan found a rodent and mole. I found a skull of a bird. By accident
I dropped a bone. Marjan found 10 assorted ribs. I also found 12 loose
teeth. I found a plastic-looking bone. I tried to put together the rodent
and tried to finish, but I couldn’t finish. I did not find a bone. Then
my class had to go to computer class. I love to do owl pellets.
October
4, 2000