1. EXT. CLUBHOUSE ON A HILL (WIDE) – DAY Open on a pretty, green, summer glade. We hear indistinct <SFX: CHILDREN’S CHATTER> IN ON: a big cardboard box “clubhouse” with cut-out windows, perched on a very small hill. Now we hear voices coming from inside the box more clearly, and we can see ELINOR, HAZEL and SALLY BEAVER through the window. We can also see TWO CUTE SNAILS (One bigger and one smaller) perched on the window sill. Elinor Ready? THROUGH THE WINDOW: Elinor and Hazel start the Explorers Pledge (complete with hand gestures). ELINOR AND hAZEL An Explorer is brave! They put their hands on their hips . Sally Beaver follows along repeating the words and the gestures SALLY An explorer is brave! ELINOR AND hAZEL An Explorer is kind! Elinor and Hazel put their hands over their hearts. Sally An Explorer is kind. Suddenly we hear someone approaching! It’s ARI , strolling towards the clubhouse as the voices continue. ELINOR AND HAZEL An Explorer is CURIOUS! THROUGH THE WINDOW: Elinor and Hazel put their hands to their brows, looking. At the same moment, OUTSIDE Ari DOES see something that stops him in his tracks. He takes a moment to check out the snails on the windowsill. ArI Oooooh . ELINOR AND HAZEL An Explorer is CURIOUS! Ari is roused from his reverie and keeps going. 2. INT. CLUBHOUSE -- DAY Elinor, Hazel and Sally say the last line together, arms wide out in joyous wonder. ( ala Julie Andrews in Sound of Music but without the spinning). Elinor, hazel and Sally WHO KNOWS WHAT WE’LL FIND!!! Ari bursts into the box. Ari Sorry I’m late, Explorers! What did I miss? ElINOR (proudly) Hi, Explorer Ari ! We’ve just been welcoming the newest member of our Club – Explorer Sally Beaver . ! ARI A new member ! ! Awesome! Welcome Explorer Sally! SaLLY Thanks for letting me be part of the club. Elinor Of course! Anyone can join the Explorer’s Club ! Hazel Yeah , all you have to do is love EXPLORING. Ari Our number one rule is... Elinor/hazel/ Ari (Together) Exploring is for everyone! As they say this, they spread their arms ( and wings) wide, causing them to crowd each other out in a funny way. Elinor/hazel Hey!/Whoa! ARI Whoops, sorry! HAZEL I guess there’s less room now that we have (counts silently) four members! ELINOR OKAY , Explorers ! Let’s go start EXPLORING! Elinor antics to exit the door, but Ari interrupts her. ArI Wait! I have something we can explore ...INSIDE the Clubhouse! ElINOR (interested) Really? What is it, Explorer Ari ? ARI Ta-DAH ! Ari proudly gestures to the windowsill. ANGLE ON: Two nice snails crawling along the window ledge. ELINOR <GASP!> Snails ! HAZEL/sally Ooooh .../Whoa... Elinor, Hazel and Sally join Ari at the windowsill admiring the snails. ARI Meet Norma and Lou-Lou. I named them after my Aunties . A beat then... Ari (CONT’D) They look just like them. The Explorers take a minute to look closely at their new friends. SCIENCE MOMENT CU: ELINOR Wow, look at their little antennae. The Snails wiggle their antennae to demo. The Explorers watch for a beat or two as the snails crawl slowly along. It goes on just long enough to be funny. hazel They sure don’t move very fast. ARI <GASP!> Wait a minute, I have a great idea! Norma and Lou-Lou can be our Explorer Club MASCOTS! ELINOR, hAZEL, SALLY Ooooh / Cool!/ Huh? This is a new word for Sally. SallY Uh... what’s a mac-sot ? ARI Mascot! It’s like a pet... for the whole CLUB!! SALLY Oh, I LOVE pets. HazEL And Norma and Lou-Lou will make perfect club mascots! We’ll always know where they are! Hazel draws a picture of a snail on the club journal . ELINOR Okay! Now that we have mascots , it’s time to go EXPLORING! This time, Elinor gets a little bit further out the door before ... HaZEL Wait, Explorer Elinor! We do have one more thing. Checks the journal) We need to clean the Clubhouse! ELINOR Oh, right! Thank you Explorer Hazel - Explorers MUST take care of their Clubhouse before they EXPLORE! Elinor, Ari , Hazel and Sally tidy up, picking up some papers and crayons and stacking them in the corner, straightening a map on the wall, hanging up the magnifying glass - that kind of thing. Elinor does an especially speedy job to get going. ELINOR (CONT’D) Okay ! We cleaned up , we have mascots, and now.. . It’s finally time to go EXPLOR- ... ! Elinor runs out the door . 3 . Ext. small hill -- continuous Elinor takes a few steps outside before she runs up against KAI WOMBAT. ELINOR (CONT’D) ...RING. Kai Hey! What are you guys doing? ari Oh , hi, Kai ! We’re having a meeting of the Explorer’s Club . ! Wanna join? KAI Sure! At that moment TITO MOUSE also walks up. Tito Hey, can I join too ? hazel Of course , Tito , come on in ! The Explorer’s Club is for everybody! Elinor looks back and forth between the great outdoors and her friends. elinor (Sighs) That’s the Explorer Way! All the kids walk into the Clubhouse. 4. Int. Clubhouse -- continuous The Clubhouse is getting pretty crowded and as everyone settles into place, Kai notices Norma and Lou-Lou . KAI Oooh , nice snails. And we take another look at the snails in CU: happily crawling along the windowsill. ArI (proudly) They’re our Club mascots! ELINOR (good naturedly ) And they’re the only ones who have done any exploring today. HaZEL Don’t worry Elinor, we’ll ALL go exploring, right after we teach Kai and Tito the Explorer’s Club Pledge. Elinor leads, with gestures: ELINOR Okay, everybody!! Repeat after me! An Explorer is brave! HAZEL, ari , sally, Kai , tito An Explorer is BRAVE!! Suddenly, CAMILLA DROMEDARY pokes her head in the window. Camilla Explorer?? Did you say Explorer? I LOVE exploring! ! ari Then join our club! Camilla Don’t mind if I do ! It takes some doing as she squeezes inside . They can all barely fit! ELINOR Hoookey , let’s start the club pledge... Suddenly the GOAT TWINS poke their noses in the door. Goat twins (in unison) Any room for us? ELINOR Uh, sure... HaZEL The Explorers Club is for everybody! They squeeze inside, now there’s REALLY no room. ElINOR Okay, time to start the... HaZEL Whoops, I dropped my crayon! She ducks down trying to retrieve it, causing the whole group to squirm and squish. ANGLE ON: her hand fishing for the crayon as we see a grouping of feet all shuffling as the crayon is accidentally kicked around - finally... HaZEL (CONT’D) Got it! Hazel stands up triumphant. Suddenly <SFX: Crunch, crunch, crunch> KAI (mouth full) Anybody want some granola? I made it myself. ELINOR, ari , hazel, sally (ad lib) Sure!/I’ll have some/pass it over!!/ Me too! More general shifting as the granola is shared. elinor Okay, Explorers, let’s get this pledge started so we can all go exploring ! An explorer is… Just that moment Ari ( squished in the far corner beside the window) calls out. ARI (calling out) Wait! Has anybody seen Norma and Lou-Lou ?! They were just here a second ago. ELINOR, hazel, sally (ad lib ) Nope/ Sorry/ They’re not over here. 5 . EXT. SMALL HILL -- CONTINUOUS Ari sticks his head out the window and calls. Norma and Lou-Lou are crawling behind Ari along the Clubhouse roof . ArI Norma!! Lou-Lou !! (looking around) NORMAAAA !! LOU-LOU !!!!!!! The Clubhouse starts to teeter as Ari’s gestures and the kid movements inside destabilize it. ArI (CONT’D) Wha-oh ! After shifting back and forth a couple of times... Elinor, Hazel, Ari , SAlly, kai WHOOOAAAW , WHOOOOAAAAAW , WHOOAAAAAA It tips over and the entire Clubhouse comically tumbles over and rolls down the (small) hill. ELINOR, HAZEL, ARI , sally, kai (CONT’D) (laughing) 4. EXT. BOTTOM OF THE HILL -- DAY The Clubhouse tumbles to a halt at the bottom of the small hill. The kids all spill out, giggling. Tito Whoa, that was cool! Goat TWINS (together) Oh my! Hazel picks herself up first. HazEL (laughing , looking at the clubhouse ) I think we have a Clubhouse problem. ELINOR Yeah! (Dusts herself off) The club got bigger , but the Clubhouse stayed the same! ANGLE ON: Meanwhile Ari , who landed a little ways away, picks himself up. He remembers that the snails are missing . ArI Norma! Lou-Lou ! Where are youoooo ? BACK ON: Elinor and Hazel are looking at the tumbled Clubhouse . HAZEL What are we going to do? ELINOR Hmmm . .. hAZEL Maybe we can get a bigger box? ELINOR That would work... We see a thought bubble form next to Elinor, in which a brand new ( and bigger) box is their shiny new clubhouse . Everyone fits insides! ELINOR (CONT’D) But what if MORE kids join the club? We’d have to get a WHOLE new Clubhouse again! In the thought bubble, more and more kids join the club, eventually crowding the bigger box. BACK ON: Ari , searching for Norma and Lou- Lou . ArI Norma! Lou-Lou! Now where did they go? Ari puts his hands on his hips and looks around. Suddenly, he realizes the snails are hanging out on his shoulder. ARI (CONT'D) There you are! BACK ON: Elinor and Hazel are still brainstorming. hazel What if we get another box? Then we can have TWO Clubhouses? ELINOR That could work . We see another thought bubble , this time showing two clubhouses near each other. All the kids fit! ELINOR (CONT’D) But then , we wouldn’t all be together . In the thought bubble , we see the kids in both clubhouses having trouble communicating with the other clubhouse . HAZEL You’re right.. . Explorers should stick together! ELINOR Yeah! Hmmm ... BACK ON: Ari , who is within earshot of Elinor and Hazel . He uses a leaf to gently take the little snails off his shoulder and puts them on a nearby rock. Ari Phew! It’s a good thing you have those shells to protect you , Norma and Lou-Lou. It’s like you have your own little clubhouses, just like we do! This catches Elinor’s attention . She hops over to Ari , with Hazel following. ELINOR Did you say Norma and Lou-Lou have their own clubhouse? Ari Kind of! See, Norma has a little clubhouse on her back and Lou-Lou, who’s bigger, has a bigger clubhouse. The snails go into their shells, then peek out. Elinor looks closer at the snails. ARI (CONT’D) I imagine when Norma grows up, she’ll have a bigger shell too. ( after a beat) Huh, I wonder how they get a bigger shell? EliNOR Hmmm ... We need more observations! She runs past the other kids and into the clubhouse, emerging with the magnifying glass and the club journal . She looks at the snails with the magnifying glass. EliNOR (CONT’D) Let’s take a closer look... We track her magnified view as she goes back and forth between the two shells a few times. On close up , we see the number of loops each shell has, and that the larger shell has more lines ( or rings) going outwards around the spiral . ELINOR (CONT’D) That is SO INTERESTING! Look ! Lou-Lou’s shell gets bigger by winding around in a spiral. (she demos the shape) She has one, two, three rings. Elinor turns her attention to Norma. ELINOR (CONT’D) But Norma’s shell has one, two, three, four, five, six rings - that’s a lot more. ANGLE ON: Hazel makes a drawing of this in the journal , counting the rings as she draws. HAZEL One, two, three, four, five, six! The kids look at Hazel’s drawing. hazel (CONT’D) The snail shell winds around, starting small and getting bigger with each ring... ElINOR I think the snails make their shells BIGGER by adding to them! When Norma was a baby, she was probably little just like Lou-Lou. But as she got bigger Norma ADDED rings to her shell to make it bigger too. In a thought bubble next to Elinor, we see Norma as a little baby snail with a small shell consisting of one loop. As she grows and gets bigger, the shell spirals around and grows, ring by ring. Ari Whoa, that is so cool... ELINOR <GASP!> And that gives me an idea to solve our Clubhouse problem ! ! She runs off screen. Ari and Hazel look at each other and follow. We hear the beginning of a song . CROSSFADE TO: CLUB-BUILDING MONTAGE The kids sing as we show a montage of them building the clubhouse addition. Elinor, Hazel, Ari Room for everyone! Room for everyone! Everyone is welcome, ‘cause there’s room for everyone!! Elinor: We have a lot of friends, Hazel: And a club that’s really fun, ARI: We had a awesome Clubhouse ELINOR: But we need a bigger one! HAZEL: We‘ll add on rooms and sections. ARI: Like our snails, we’ll get it done. (ANGLE ON: The Snails) ELINOR: Our Club keeps growing bigger, we need... ALL: ROOM FOR EVERYONE! Room for everyone! Room for everyone! Explorer’s Club is AWESOME cause there’s room for everyone!! As they sing, we see Hazel drawing up plans for expanding the existing clubhouse, with diagrams of the snails for inspiration, and we see the kids discussing how they are going to build it. We see the other kids bringing in a colorful pile of random and whimsical building materials -- cardboard, snow saucers, sheets of colorful fabric and decorations - etc. Slowly they make the clubhouse bigger by expanding it. END MONTAGE! Ext. Clubhouse - later Hazel checks her plans. HaZEL I think we’ve got everything except the door on the roof! PAN UP TO REVEAL: The REAL Clubhouse and all the Explorers working on it. Kai pops through a door in the roof. KaI One roof door - DONE! Elinor looks on with satisfaction. ELINOR Now THAT’S a Clubhouse for EVERYONE! Hazel And we have lots of extra building stuff if need to make it bigger later. ANGLE ON: Extra stuff. ELINOR Great ! HAZEL ( closing the journal) Well , now we can finally go exploring like you wanted, Elinor ! ELINOR That’s OK. We did explore ! We learned something from Nature and that’s what exploring is all about! Suddenly , Ari runs up in a panic. ArI Wait ! I’ve lost Norma and Lou-Lou AGAIN!! A beat as he looks at his smiling friends and figures it out. ARI (CONT’D) Don’t tell me. They’re on my shoulder, aren’t they? (covering) I knew that. Hazel again uses a leaf to put them gently on a rock ELINOR Explorers, are you ready? Hazel, ari , sally, kai , Camilla, GoatS READY!!! Elinor leads her friends(with gestures) as they march OS. ELINOR, Hazel, ari , sally, kai , Camilla, Goat Twins An Explorer is BRAVE, an Explorer is KIND!! An Explorer is CURIOUS!!! WHO KNOWS WHAT WE’LL FIND!! IRIS OUT, THE END

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ELINOR’S TOWN EP 102 The Amazing Expandable Clubhouse By: Katherine Sandford Elinor’s Question: How does a snail always seem to fit even when the snail grows bigger? Logline: Elinor and her friends run into trouble when so many kids join their club that there’s no more room in the Clubhouse. Curriculum Goals: SEP1 . Asking questions and defining problems. SEP5 . Using mathematics and computational thinking SEP3 . Planning and carrying out investigations SEP4 . Analyzing and interpreting data LS4 . Understand that all animals and plants have a life cycle, can reproduce, and change and grow over time ND3 . ( RTL Crosscutting concept ‘Structure and Function’) Understand that structures and materials in the natural world can be used or can inspire the engineering of structures with similar function in the designed world Main Characters: Elinor, Hazel, Ari, Sally, Kai Secondary Characters: Camilla, Goat Twins (in unison) Incidental Characters: Tito, Norma, LouLou Backgrounds: Top of the hill, Inside the Clubhouse, bottom of the hill Props: notebook, crayon, granola, leaf, magnifying glass, nature book, Clubhouse, building materials OUTLINE: November 23, 2018 FIRST DRAFT: December 17th, 2018 (V.O.) (O.S.) (O.C.) (CONT'D) (SUBTITLE) Int Ext I/E Day Night Afternoon Morning Evening Later Moments Later Continuous The Next Day Cut To: Fade In: Fade Out. Fade To: Dissolve To: Back To: Match Cut To: Jump Cut To: Fade To Black.