National Geographic Kids USA - June, July 2017

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Museum Mishap

BY ERIN WHITMER

MARTY BAUMANN

I’ll never forget the day my
school subject

class took a field trip to the Museum of Natural

History. While everyone else went to the museum cafeteria, I headed for the
noun

shop to

buy a poster of the
candy bar

galaxy. By the time I got back to the cafeteria, my classmates were

nowhere in sight. I
past-tense verb

through the

insect

exhibit and passed

some
adjective

-looking cavemen. Then I stopped in my tracks. In front of me was the

coolest
type of dinosaur

skeleton I’d ever seen. Its

animal body part

must have

been as big as a(n)
type of automobile

. I was trying to dig a camera out of my backpack when

I
past-tense verb

on my

item of clothing

and

past-tense verb

into the skeleton. With aloud

noise

, at least

big number

bones clattered to the ground. That’s when I looked up

and saw my entire class
verb ending in -ing

at me. “

your name

!”

teacher’s name

yelled.

“I have a bone to pick with you.” At that moment, I was sure I was

about to become history.

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