Savannah and the Dis-eruption, Part 2

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“Watch out Mr. Newsome!” Savannah screamed.

Mr. Newsome ducked just in time to miss the messy slush that had accidentally erupted from Savannah’s volcano experiment. Robbie jumped up from his desk and grabbed the wild container.

“Settle down, class!” Mr. Newsome commanded.

Once everything was under control, Savannah heard her classmates giggling under their breath. Perhaps her brother had been right: maybe she was a science disaster.

“Savannah, did your instructions tell you to put that much powder into the container?” Mr. Newsome inquired.

Savannah held her head down. She was tempted to lie, but she knew lying would only make things worse.

“I didn’t have my instructions, Mr. Newsome. I accidentally left them at home. I thought I could remember what was on the instructions,” Savannah admitted.

Savannah felt her cheeks flush. “Sorry,” she whispered. “Next time I’ll tell you if I don’t have the instructions.”

“That’s probably a good idea, but did you know that there were lots of scientists in our history who made mistakes while doing experiments?” Mr. Newsome said.

“Really?” asked Savannah. “Like who?”

Mr. Newsome smiled, “Well, Thomas Edison failed thousands of times while trying to invent the light bulb, Marie Curie had problems as she worked with radium, Ben Franklin had his share of problems too, and, of course, me! I’ve failed at lots of experiments! The key is to form a hypothesis, to tell what you think may happen in the experiment and learn as much as you can while you experiment.”

When Savannah got home, she told her family what had happened.

They reminded her that science is all about trial and error. She still had time to impress Mr. Newsome and make it into the upcoming science fair.

**Did she make it to the science fair? Found out HERE!**

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Thank you for visiting our blog! We are looking forward to knowing what you think about this story written by Kimberly P. Johnson for My School Rocks! 

Jeremy lifted the heavy boxes of basketball cards. He couldn’t believe how many he had collected over the years.

Dr. J, Michael Jordan, Larry Byrd, LeBron James, all of them were heroes. Some were cards his dad had when he was a kid, and some were found at garage sales. Jeremy’s mom suggested that he grab the ones he wanted to keep and then give the others away.

“We need extra space in our garage and getting rid of some of the cards will make room,” she said.

“Okay Mom, but it’s going to take a while to go through all of these boxes. May I get some of my friends to help me?”

“Sure Jeremy,” said Mom. “I’ll even make snacks when they come over.”

Jeremy called up his friends, Charlie and Macy. Once they arrived, they were shocked at how few cards Jeremy had. 

“Wow, we thought you had a ton of cards,” said Macy. “You only have a few!”

“A few?” exclaimed Jeremy, “Are you kidding? There are ten boxes here!” Jeremy couldn’t believe it when he heard that Charlie and Macy had more cards than him. 

“Together, we probably have the biggest basketball card collection in the town of Baxter. With all of these cards we should be in the Guinness Book of Records,” Charlie giggled.

“Hey, wait a minute,” Jeremy gasped. “That is a great idea!”

They all looked at each other and grinned. “Could we really get into the Guinness Book?” asked Macy.

They asked Jeremy’s mom and searched the internet. Jeremy reported, “According to the Guinness World Records, if you can measure it, weigh it or count it - then it can be considered a record! On top of that we can turn our Guinness attempt into a fundraiser!”

**How did the fundraiser turn out? Find out HERE!**

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