Really nice one, Kathy. Fun throughout and clear and funny. Just line tweaks below. Italic means line replace. Thanks! EXT./INT. EXPLORERS’ CLUBHOUSE – DAY Line count - 121 (Can we try to cut one line please) Elinor P - 33 Olive P - 27 Ari P - 27 Sally P - 7 (Try to cut two lines to reduce priciple characters) Tito P - 16 a super fun adventure - love that we can get super low and small as we explore the pillbug and other creatures - will be visually fun ELINOR calls from inside the Clubhouse. EliNOR All right Explorers, it’s time for the Explorers’ pledge. Through the window we see her, OLIVE, ARI, SALLY and TITO start reciting their pledge with hand-gestures. tito was already in the club house club in 101A the amazing clubhouse - so we cant play it that he’s new. And whomever we do have new shouldnt say the pledge here since its their first time hearing it. Perhaps we have medhi fox as our new member? Elinor, olive, ari, sally, tito An Explorer is brave, an Explorer is kind… (We PUSH IN through the window…) An Explorer is CURIOUS, who knows what we’ll find! Tito was already in the club in "Expandable Clubhouse." Maybe the backstory (no need to explain it) is that this is just Tito's first outing with the group. Change this line to: "Welcome, Explorers! Today, we have Explorer Olive, Explorer Ari, Explorer Sally, Explorer Tito and me, Explorer Elinor!" ElINOR Welcome Explorer TITO!! The kids all cheer <WHOO-HOO> then... love it Tito Ooooh, I can’t WAIT to be a real EXPLORER - I’ll be brave and kind and... (a little hesitantly) Uuhhhm. What does curious mean? love it ELINOR Good question. Curious means you really want to find out about new things. love it Olive Yep, we explorers are verrrrrry curious, so we ask lots of questions. Agree with Kevin, nice suggestion. Tito Oooh… (he thinks) i am weary to have our characters appear unintelligent - to be this age and not know what a question is... maybe instead he asks 'what kind of questions?' and they respond 'any kind of question, like the one you just asked!' completely agree with Kevin. I like his suggestion of "What kinds of questions?" Okay. So, what’s a question? Instead of "smart" can we say he is laredy being an explorer he is being curious ELINOR Tito, you’re so smart! You asked a question about questions. Ari could say something like "Any question that helps us learn something new bcause explorers like to find out new things." Ari A question is something you ask, to learn something new. Change "It worked!" to "Then it worked!" Tito Oh. (he thinks, then) It WORKED! Olive and Ari high-five Tito <SFX: WAY TO GO WALLA>. Typo on "pledge's" ELINOR Okay, Explorers, now that we’ve said our pledge’s it’s time for the best part of the Club – EXPLORING!! Follow me! The kids follow Elinor out the door. EXT. EXPLORERS CLUBHOUSE – DAY Tito (excitedly) This is soo exciting!! Where are we going to explore today? ELINOR Hmm, well, that depends on what we want to see, Tito. OLIVE I’d like to see some interesting new plants. I want to see cool new animals, like lizards or bugs Ari I want to see cool new animals. I just want to find some sticks. SallY I’d like to find some sticks. They are only use to this tiny town they live in - what would a new city look like to them? - a new town? I’m thinking visually, how we want to show what elinor would picture if she’s never seen a city before. What about the moon? I understand we are to only focus on science thats on earth and not go to space but this is a thought bubble where we can let them expand to funny or even surreal scenarios ELINOR Well, I want to be like the GREAT explorers, exploring the sea. I think the moon would be fine since we are not actually trying to explore it. Most preschoolers do have a concept of a busy city with moving vehicles and tall buildings even if they do not live near one. (THOUGHT BUBBLE: we see Elinor at the mast of an exploring ship...) Or a jungle (THOUGHT BUBBLE: We see her trekking through a jungle! ) Or even a new city!! THOUGHT BUBBLE: We see her coming upon a new civilization! Ari Uhh, Elinor. I don’t think we can go THAT far. OlIVE Yeah, your Mom said we’re supposed to stick around the woods near the Clubhouse. Elinor’s THOUGHT BUBBLE bursts. ELINOR (a little disappointed) Oh, yeah, you’re right...<SIGH> (brightening) But we can still explore - come on. The Explorers follow Elinor into the woods chanting the Explorer chant. Hmm, feel like three times might be a little too much to hear the pledge in one episode. Maybe change this to a preview of the song chorus, or an ad lib "Let's go exploring, let's go exploring…" singsong from the kids. Elinor, olive, ari, sally, tito An Explorer is brave, an Explorer is Kind an Explorer is CURIOUS... EXT. FOREST GLADE (NEAR THE CLUBHOUSE) – DAY CLOSE ON: Ari as he finishes his chant. Ari Who knows what we’ll – whoops! At that moment Ari accidentally stomps on the end of a stick, which has a little Rollie Pollie crawling on the other end. ANGLE ON: The force of Ari’s stomp sends the Rollie Pollie flying through the air. ECU/SLO MO maybe we can see the little creature roll up into a ball, but the kids don’t notice yet. Now a ball, the Rollie Pollie gently bonks Ari on the head before rolling to the ground. ArI (CONT’D) Huh? Something hit me! Ari looks down as Olive, Tito and Sally gather around. Elinor keeps marching. I saw it! I think it was that little rock. Olive Maybe it was that little rock. Olive points. ARI Yep that must be it. ANGLE ON: Elinor, still marching along, realizes no one is following her anymore. ELINOR Where’d everybody go? (turning) What are you all looking at? Olive A rock. RE: Kevin and Sara's comment: I think Elinor at this point is in the mindset that she wants to go far to explore, and that's what we want to communicate. ELINOR perhaps instead of "we have to keep exploring!" - since they are exploring - she can instead end her sentence with "....we want to explore something new that we havent explored before" agree with Kevin...Maybe she comments that rocks are everywhere we know they are hard and don't move on their own. Let's learn about something ... (so that these properties contrast with Rolliw Pollie later) A rock? Really? Come on guys, we don’t have time to look at rocks, we have to keep exploring! ARI Yeah, but this is a really cool rock, Elinor, look. Elinor hurries back to see the rock. SCIENCE ECU – Ari has the rolled up Rollie Pollie in the palm of his hand. ridges might be a little advanced. Try "lines" instead? ELINOR Oooooh, you’re right, Ari. I’ve never seen a rock like this one before. (pointing to the rock) can we add is tiny or small to the list of properties It’s perfectly round and has these ridges on it. At that moment the Rollie Pollie uncurls itself. Ari Wait a minute – is this rock MOVING? WIDEN: The kids consider this exciting development. Instead of "that's impoosible" it mocels better science language to say "I thought rocks don't move" Olive That’s impossible, rocks don’t move, do they? Pehaps olive takes the magnifying glass out and she’s the one using it - it also makes sense since she’s the one that can count how many legs it has in line 36. Then she asks elinor to hold the magnifying glass so she can grab her notebook and crayon. Elinor can then use it to get a closer look ElINOR We need MORE observations. Elinor takes out her magnifying glass (out of Olive’s satchel? Or maybe Olive just hands it to her). MAGNIFYING POV: The Rollie Pollie is on its back and we can see its legs wiggling. NOTE: Although it looks less like a rock now, I think we can keep the conceit until line ????? ElINOR (CONT’D) <GASP!> It has LEGS! ArI Really? Cool! here olive is leaning in close using the magnifying glass to count the individual legs OlIVE I'm not sure Olive needs to draw it in her notebook. I'll keep reading to see of its used purposefully later. One, two three four five six SEVEN pairs of legs – to be exact. WIDEN: Olive makes a note in her notebook. Meanwhile Tito seems a bit nervous. A rock with legs? I'm scared. (Tito is a funny kid, so this will come out funny/overdramatic) TitO (nervously) It’s not clear what olive is noting - theres no mention of it and she then pulls out her nature book - therefore she’ll need to put her notebook back first. Suggest instead she says here’ hmmm, here hold this (handing elinor the magnifying glass) i want to check my nature book” - from line 42 not sure I love the term creepy but I could get over that A rock with legs? That’s kinda creepy. olive doesnt look in her book yet because she can still comfort (tito) as you have it. Olive You don’t have to worry, Tito. Explorers are brave, remember? Olive puts her arm around Tito. He perks up. Nice moment. TITO (brightening) Oh yeah. Meanwhile, Elinor is entranced by the Rollie Pollie which has now flipped over and is crawling around on Ari’s hand. You know, I don't think this is a rock at all. It looks like some kind of bug. (let's establish they think it's a bug so the correction later makes sense) ELINOR You know what, I don’t think this is a rock at all. It looks like some kind of animal. ArI Coooool. then here she can open her nature book and say "ok ....so.... Chimpanzees, Cows, Crayfish, Here we go - Creepy Crawlies.....’ OliVE Hmmmm. Let me check my Nature Book. (she takes out her Nature Book and leafs through) Doees this feel like a stretch ..I wonder if the kids could think it was an insect because of uts size and when they get to the insect page it says insects have 6 legs...so it must not be an insect....then maybe there is a part that says "often thought to be insects" and a few animals are shown with their names then they know to find rollie pollie or pillbug. Chimpanzees, Cows, Crayfish, Here we go - Creepy Crawlies..... ANGLE ON: a drawing of a bunch of different animals that live under a log (who we will meet later): millipede, slug, worm, ant, spider, beetle and a Rollie Pollie. Olive points to it. ...They're the same kind of animals as crabs or lobsters. OlIVE (CONT’D) It looks like we found a Rollie Pollie! Listen to this. Rollie Pollies, or Pill Bugs, actually aren’t bugs at all. They’re more like crabs or lobsters. ELINOR Really? That is sooo interesting. Add to the description below a collective <SFX: Ohhh…> OLIVE And it says here that Rollie Pollies roll up into a ball to protect themselves when they are feeling nervous. Meanwhile Ari is starting to squirm. ArI (giggling) YIKES! The Rollie Pollie doesn’t seem nervous right now – but he does seem TICKLY! ANGLE ON: The Rollie Pollie has crawled up Ari’s arm and is now tickling his neck (not near his face). Ari can’t help wiggle and giggle, <SFX: WIGGLE, GIGGLE WALLA> as little creature crawls down his other arm, he sets it gently on the ground. ARI (CONT’D) Whew! There ya go, little Rollie Pollie. The Rollie Pollie starts trundling along with determination. TitO Where’s it going now? ELINOR Let’s find out - follow that Rollie Pollie! EXT. FOREST GLADE – WIDE As they follow, Elinor has to stop and start marching a couple of times to match the Rollie Pollie’s slower pace, causing a series of gentle pile-ups with her friends <SF: OOOF, WHOOPS, GIGGLE>. "Cute moment here with the pile up :) In the following lines, we seem to go back and forth between saying it's ""a"" rollie pollie, and implying its name is ""rollie pollie."" Let's stick to it being ""a"" or ""the"" rollie pollie. Change this line to ""The Rollie Pollie doesn't go very fast. Maybe it's because it's so small."" " ARI Rollie Pollie doesn’t go very fast. Maybe it’s because it’s so small. Maybe "He seems to be checking things out" since it is his antanea instead of eyes. Olive Plus it seems to be stopping to look at things. ANGLE ON: The Rollie Pollie has stopped and is exploring an interesting rock covered in lichen with it’s antennae. ELINOR Oooh, you’re right Olive. I think it’s exploring. OlIVE I wonder what things look like to a little Rollie Pollie. ELINOR <GASP!> Let’s find out. We can be Rollie Pollies too, and observe the world the way a Rollie Pollie does. Elinor and the others get down low. LOW DOWN POV OF THE FOREST FLOOR: A little puddle, a patch of grass, a rock etc, look huge. Have fun designers! <SFX: WHOOOA WALLA> SALLY That puddle looks like an ocean. The grass looks like a jungle from down here. Tito That patch of grass is like a jungle. Typo below this line "it's" ArI Wow! This rock looks just like a MOUNTAIN! Climb it, Rollie Pollie, all the way to the TOP! It keeps moving along stopping and touching things with it’s antennae. Olive Yep, it’s exploring for sure. You go, Rollie Pollie. ...THIS rollie pollie… ELINOR I know! We should make Rollie Pollie a member of the Exploring Club. Add space after ellipsis :) OLIVE Great idea, Elinor, only...Rollie Pollies don’t talk. ELINOR Then let’s do the Explorers Pledge for him. Ready? The Explorers stand up and start the pledge. Elinor, olive, ari, sally, tito An Explore is brave, an Explorer is kind! An Explore is curious, who knows what we’ll find... Well today we found a Rollie Polli- uh-oh… ArI Like YOU, Rollie Poll-uh-oh... ANGLE ON: The ground, no Rollie Pollie. ...THE rollie pollie go? OLIVE Uh-oh. Where did Rollie Pollie go? The kids look around in panic for a beat, then... ElINOR There it is!! ANGLE ON: the Rollie Pollie is burrowing in the earth beside a good-sized partially rotten log, suddenly it disappears. Tito <gasp!> It’s gone! It went under the log. Let's go see it come out the other side. Olive It went under the log, so it should come out the other side. The kids gather around the far side of the log waiting for the Rollie Pollie to emerge. ELINOR Come on Explorer Rollie Pollie, we’re waiting for you so we can keep EXPLORING! A beat, then. Ari Rollie Pollie....? TitO He’s not coming out. why would this be accidentlly? she could just naturally think its stuck and pushes it aside to roll - exposing the other bugs OliVE Maybe he’s stuck under - whooops... At this moment Olive accidentally causes the log to roll when she leans on it and the kids discover… EXT. LOG TOWN – DAY ANGLE ON: The kids amazed face, gob-smacked with what they see. <SFX: WOOOW!!!> https://www.dkfindout.com/us/animals-and-nature/habitats-and-ecosystems/rotting-log/ Look at that! There are all kinds of animals under this log! We definitely need MORE observations! (just to explain verbally what they are seeing) ElinoR elinor probably still has the magnifying glass in her hand from earlier - especially since they were low on the ground watching the pill bug We definitely need MORE observations! Elinor gets out her magnifying glass and the kids crouch down low to observe: ECU/MAGNIFYING GLASS POV - The kids take time to watch the bugs and creatures moving around. (note below this line: I think centipedes are dangerous, maybe make it a millipede?) Ari Whoa! Worms and slugs and beetles and - look at all the legs on this one. A centipede crawls by. maybe "lunch room" or "kitchen" rather than "restaurant" Tito Look at them all munching on that rotting log. It’s like their restaurant. Change "Yay, sticks!" to "(realizing) I found sticks!" SaLLY i would think the log olive moved by herself cant be too big - otherise she'd need a lot of help. so having a puddle under this small rotting log seems to be a scale issue - we could just have a very small amount of water - ie. the size of a hand - but still big enough for ants to need help to cross And these ants are walking along a stick over a puddle – like a bridge over a pond. Yay, sticks! Sally gathers up some sticks she’s found (NOT the one the ants are using). OLIVE And those pretty ferns look just like trees. "Maybe this is their town, just like we live in Animal Town. " ArI Maybe this is their park, like in Animal Town. Delete "That's it!" ELINOR That’s it! We found a tiny town, under the log. We'll call it, Log Town! ARI Log town! ELINOR All ready for us to explore. As the kids sing we examine Log Town and see the things they mention (sea, cave, forest etc.) which are really just small puddles, nooks and ferns but seen from a Rollie Pollie perspective. I love the song. I was thinking it would be good for Elinor in the last line of the second section to say "under a rock or a log" if it works...kids in the city or in more manucured neighboorhoods are more likely to find a rock to move than a log Elinor, Ari, Olive Explore, Explore, just walk out the door! The whole world is there, what are you waiting for? Explore, explore, then explore some more, You don’t know what you’ll find until you explore. ELINOR: Who knows where you’ll go, and what you will see, OLIVE: It could be a forest, a cave or the sea, ARI: You might climb a mountain, or wade through a bog ELINOR: Or you might find a new town, under a log. ALL: Explore, Explore, just walk out the door! The whole world is there, what are you waiting for? Explore, explore, then explore some more, You don’t know what you’ll find until you explore. END SONG - As the song ends we can see the various animals are seeking shelter under sticks and leaves, or burrowing into the ground. ArI Hey! Where’s everybody going? Split this line. Give the last sentence to Tito (who learned previously about being nervous). Olive They’re all hiding, like the Rollie Pollie did when it rolled up. They must be nervous. ARI Of what? Of US! We probably look pretty huge to them, Ari. OLIVE Of US! We’re all pretty huge to a Rollie Pollie, Ari. Olive crouches low. Her POV reveals this is true. Uh oh, let's not make them nervous. ARI Oh, no! We don’t want to make them nervous. Yes, remember: Explorers are kind. Let's put the roof back on Log Town. ELINOR We need to put the roof back on Log Town. They start to roll the log back into place. "Let's give this line to Sally, so she can have her moment, too: SALLY Wait! (delete the second sentence, then modify the description below this line so it reads, ""Sally uses a stick to make sure the little creatures…"" etc.)" TITO Wait! Sally, can I borrow one of your sticks? Sally hands Tito a stick and he uses it to makes sure the little creatures left are in good spots (small holes, under rocks, covered by a piece of wood). i love that our new member is the one that does this TitO (CONT’D) There. Everyone is safe now, and they won’t be squished by accident when we roll the log back. Change "Tito" to "Sally" ELINOR That was very thoughtful of you, Tito. The kids roll the log carefully back into place. ANGLE ON: the little Rollie Pollie burrows happily underneath. ArI Bye, bye Rollie Pollie, thanks for showing us around Log town. In ECU we can see the creatures under the log, crawling around safe and sound. BACK ON: The kids walk home after a long day of exploring. In this last page, let's drive the lesson that you can go exploring anywhere. Change this line to: "Wow, what a great day to go exploring!" ELINOR Wow, who knew there is so much happening under a log. OlIVE I got to see cool new plants. ArI I got to meet a Rollie Pollie. SALLY I found some sticks! "Change this line to: OLIVE I'm sorry we didn't get to explore far like real explorers, Elinor." ElINOR this seems to be a bit complex agree And I explored like a real explorer - Rollie Pollie style - across the sea that was a puddle, in the jungle that was some grass and in Log Town! "Change this line to: ELINOR That's ok, Olive. You don't have to go far to go exploring. There's LOTS of things to observe and discover everywhere!" OlIVE What about you, Tito, did you get to do what you wanted to do? "Change this line to: ARI Yeah, we found a whole new town under a regular ol' log!" TITO Well, I just wanted to be a REAL explorer. Change this line to: "And we WERE real explorers… Tito, you were BRAVE when we first saw the rollie pollie. And Sally, you were KIND when you made sure all of our LogTown friends were safe. ELINOR Should she say "you are" instead of were??? Oooh, but you were, Tito! You were brave when you saw the rock with legs. Change this line to: "And MOST important…." ArI You were curious to see where the Rollie Pollie was going. "Change this line to: ELINOR We were ALL curious!" Olive And you made sure all of our Log Town friends were safe. That was very kind. Brave, kind, curious - you're right, we are all real explorers! TITO Brave, curious, kind - you’re right. I guess I am a real explorer. ELINOR Yup, and this was the BEST exploring day EVER. Nice work. No more comments after this line. Thanks! OLIVE Even though we didn’t go very far. SaLLY I hope we get to go somewhere just as exciting tomorrow. we often end with kids laughing - maybe after they laugh we have a wide shot of them continue on their way through the forest - (tito) calling out 'brave, curious, kind!..brave, curious and kind!' walla from others as they cheer - end ArI Well, we could explore under the mess in my room. Just sayin, Everybody SFX LAUGHS as we fade out. THE END

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ELINOR WONDERS WHY EP 135 Follow That Rollie Pollie By Katherine Sandford Elinor's Question: Where can we explore without going very far? OR Where does a Rollie Pollie live? Logline: The Exploring Club wants to explore some place really cool, and they end up exploring under a log. Curriculum Goals: LS5 . Begin to understand that animals and plants depend on other living things and nonliving things in the environment to meet some of their needs (Elinor and her friends realize the Rollie Pollie and the other animals depend on the eco-system under the log to survive). ES3 . Understand that things people do to live comfortably can affect the world around them, but they can make choices that reduce their impacts on the land, water, air, and other living things: (Elinor and her friend learn that they disturbed the ecosystem under the log when they moved it) ND4. (RTL Crosscutting concept 'Flows, Cycles, and Conservation'): Appreciate the way that elements in the natural world change, interact and are re-used, and how we can organize our designed world to better fit and care for the environment. (Elinor and her friends realize they should put the log back into place to protect t animals in Log Town) SEP5 . Using mathematics and computational thinking a. Using counting and numbers to describe and compare quantitative attributes of objects b. Sort and categorize observable phenomena based on attributes c. Use mathematical language and vocabulary to describe attributes (Elinor and her friends count and classify the bug they find). CROSS-CUTTING CONCEPT: Scale and proportion. (Elinor and her friends observe how things look from a Rollie Pollie's perspective). Mains: Elinor, Ari, Olive, Tito. Secondary: Sally Locations: Explorer's Clubhouse, Forest, under the log Props: magnifying glass, Nature Book, Rollie Pollie, Assorted worms, centipedes, ants and spiders that live under the log. OUTLINE - May 28, 2019 FIRST DRAFT: July 15, 2019 ELINOR ARI OLIVE SALLY TITO Art (V.O.) (O.S.) (O.C.) (SUBTITLE) INT EXT I/E ND4 ELINOR WONDERS WHY (RTL CROSSCUTTING CONCEPT 'FLOWS, CYCLES, AND CONSERVATION'): APPRECIATE THE WAY THAT ELEMENTS IN THE NATURAL WORLD CHANGE, INTERACT AND ARE RE-USED, AND HOW WE CAN ORGANIZE OUR DESIGNED WORLD TO BETTER FIT AND CARE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT. (ELINOR AND HER FRIENDS REALIZE THEY SHOULD PUT THE LOG BACK INTO PLACE TO PROTECT THE LOG CITY) EXPLORERS' CLUBHOUSE – DAY CLUBHOUSE EXPLORERS CLUBHOUSE – DAY FOREST GLADE (NEAR THE CLUBHOUSE) – DAY FOREST GLADE – WIDE LOG TOWN – DAY CLUBHOUSE – AFTERNOON 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. J&D NOTES: