Is that in Arkansas asked Dudley Jones We mostly call him Dud No Dudley Mrs Cupcake sighed Drumheller is in Alberta It’s about a six-hour ride on the school bus Holy moly Six hours on a school bus I didn’t know if I could handle that Twenty minutes every day was bad enough especially when the third graders were singing The Never Ending Song But the third graders weren’t going on this field trip so we might be okay Now of course you know that Drumheller is famous for its dinosaur museum We’ll be seeing dinosaur bones dinosaur replicas other fossils all sorts of exciting things gushed Mrs Cupcake We will be studying this topic in great detail before we go Mark rolled his eyes at me 6
You will have a chance to do research into different kinds of dinosaurs We will make a dinosaur collage and you will be writing dinosaur stories She made it sound as if we were lucky that we would get to do schoolwork But I knew there would be a but to all this we need to raise money to be able to go Great There had to be a catch to going on a big field trip They wouldn’t just let us go and have fun for a week We’d have to work for it and earn it first
CHAPTER TWO Over the following months we made papier-mâché dinosaurs and everything got covered in goo I forgot there was thick goo on my hand and rubbed my hair Mark looked like he had scales Angela’s table got covered in guck and so did the floor But the end result was awesome We put a green piece of plywood on the floor and had dinosaurs grazing on it a T rex a Spinosaurus 8
a Diplodocus and a Brachiosaurus There was also a Stegosaurus that looked like an elephant with spikes We made pterodactyls and hung them from wire coat hangers Some looked more like bats with giant teeth but it was cool to see them dangling from the ceiling especially when the window was open and they moved in the breeze I even learned how to spell pterodactyl We ended up talking about dinosaurs all day every day Our librarian Mrs Pringle brought us her entire collection of dinosaur books We studied dinosaur bones in biology We talked about prehistoric times during history We measured and counted dinosaur bones and dinosaur teeth in math The only thing our teacher did not have us do was write dinosaur poems 9
