1. INT CLASROOM -- DAY We open on Ms Mole standing near her desk. Ari and Elinor rush into the frame. ARI Ms Mole! We have a question that we HAVE to ask you! About ANTS! MS. MOLE Oh my! I do love questions from my little scientists. ELINOR We saw some ants walking together and they looked so much alike we thought they might be brothers. OLIVE Or sisters! ARI And THEN we wondered: do ants even HAVE brothers and sisters? Ms Mole smiles. MS. MOLE That’s a wonderful question! AND it reminds me that it’s time for our story, which is all about ANT nests and FAMILIES. Ants DO have brothers and sisters! And MOTHERS too! Ari looks surprised. ARI Whoa. Just...like...me . Olive and Tito Mouse come to join them. Ms Mole turns to her desk, and we see a really long book lying closed with drawings of ants on the cover. OLIVE That’s a big book! MS. MOLE Yes, it has lots of ANTS-ers in it. Get it? ANTS-ers . About ANTS. The kids <SFX: GIGGLE WALLA>. Tito and Ari help get the book open. Tito Mouse ends up holding on to the edge and gets lifted into the air as it opens. On the first page of the book, we see the top of an anthill above ground. ARI Why is the book so big, Ms. Mole? MS. MOLE I’ll show you! See, the ant nest looks quite small on top of the ground, right? Well, watch THIS! Ms. Mole reaches under the page, and the long page unfolds down, revealing a cutaway view that shows the long underground tunnels leading down. The kids <OOHHH...> Ms. MOLE (CONT’D) Ant nests are really big under the ground! There’s room for THOUSANDS of ants. ANGLE ON: The book illustration animates and we see lots of little ants scurrying around. (The ants are realistically depicted.) ELINOR Wow! Look at them all! We zoom in on a room with one ant that’s bigger than the others by 2-3x . OlIVE Why is that ant so much bigger than the others, Ms. Mole? MS. MOLE Because that big ant is the MOTHER of the smaller ants. We see the worker ants crawling around and on top of her. OLIVE Does she take care of them? MS. MOLE Actually, the little workers take care of their mother. She’s called the QUEEN ANT. We see the little ants bringing her food. OLIVE The queen! Really? Does she get to wear a crown? MS. MOLE No, but she gets to spend all day with her helpful children! ARI So all those ants are brothers and sisters!? MS. MOLE Yes! They are one VERY BIG family. The ants snuggle in a bit to the queen. Back to the kids: ELINOR I wonder what it’s like to have so many brothers and sisters. OLIVE I wonder what its to have a queen for a mother! ArI If my mother was a queen, I’d be a prince! Prince Ari! Ari holds his chin up and stands regally. We see Ms Mole wearing a toy crown, passing out toy tiaras for the kids. MS. MOLE You kids are all princes and princesses to me!

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ELINOR wonders why 104 INTERSTITIAL: Ms Mole Story time: ANT FAMILIES Written by Jorge Cham and Daniel Whiteson Follows "The House that Ants Built." Curriculum: The kids learn about the structure of ant hills, and that ants have brothers, sisters and mother called the Queen, who is cared for by worker ants. Learning Goals: LS7 . Understand that young animals and young plants are very much, but not exactly like their parents [ Ants have families too; queen ants are bigger than worker ants] LS8 . Begin to understand that there are many different kinds of living things and how they may be the same or different: a. Observe and describe similarities and differences across different types of plants and animals [The kids observe that ants have families, including siblings and mothers, just like they do]. POLISH DRAFT: 12-Feb-19 POLISH V2: 14 Feb -19 Ms. MOLE ARI MS MOLE ELINOR OLIVE ELINOR/ARI Kids (V.O.) (O.S.) (O.C.) (CONT'D) (SUBTITLE) INT EXT I/E 1 ARI: I HAVE A COUSIN THAT EATS ANTS ARI: WHAT DO ANTS TASTE LIKE? INT CLASROOM -- DAY 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.