June 19, 2013

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Students weave, attend pit fire and walk ancient trail

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Randy Metcalf/The Explorer, Ten-year-old Katelyn Swena wove yarn around a cup during Copper Creek Elementary School's 20th annual pit fire event Friday, Nov. 21. Students from the school's fourth-grade classes spent the day hiking and making arts and crafts at Catalina State Park.

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Randy Metcalf/The Explorer, Copper Creek Elementary School fourth-grader Dalton Reidhead sprinkles colored sand on a sand painting at Catalina State Park.

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Randy Metcalf/The Explorer, Parent volunteer Bill Fritz take students' pottery out of a pile of smoldering horse manure and sawdust. The pottery was fired and colored using traditional Hohokam techniques.

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Randy Metcalf/The Explorer, Shelby Baril, right, and Brooke Morgan walk around the edge of ruins of a prehistoric Hohokam village site along the Romero Ruin Interpretive Trail at Catalina State Park. Copper Creek Elementary School students spent Friday, Nov. 21, at the park learning about Hohokam history.

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Randy Metcalf/The Explorer, Smoke billows off a pile of freshly fired pottery at Catalina State Park. Copper Creek students finished their pottery using traditional Hohokam techniques, which involve smoking it for several hours with smoldering horse manure.

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Randy Metcalf/The Explorer, Piping hot pottery lies on the ground after being taken out of a fire pit at Catalina State Park. While students worked on arts and crafts and hiked throughout the day, their pottery cooked.

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