1. EXT. SCHOOLYARD - DAY It’s a beautiful sunny day. The kids are at school, playing outside during recess. The camera pans across kids playing various games and stops at ELINOR and ARI, who are having a thoughtful discussion. ELINOR Hmm. What should we play today? ARI We could play catch with a ball. ELINOR Nah . We did that yesterday. ARI Right. I know! We could have a snowball fight. ELINOR Ari, it’s spring. There’s no snow. ARI Maybe we’ll get lucky and there’ll be a spring snowstorm! Ari looks up at the sky, as if waiting impatiently. ARI (CONT’D) I’m WAITING. Elinor <SFX: GIGGLE S >. Then a pair of butterflies fly past them, one chasing the other. ARI (CONT’D) Look at those butterflies go. They look like they’re chasing each other. ELINOR Hmm. Are you thinking what I’m thinking? ELINOR/ARI Let’s play tag! ARI You know who loves tag? Olive. Maybe she wants to play too. Where is she? ELINOR She said she was going to read under that big tree. ARI Let’s go! Ari and Elinor find Olive sitting under a big tree. She’s reading a huge book, and she looks very absorbed in it. ELINOR Hi, Olive. Olive doesn’t look up, but she replies with enthusiasm. She’s just very excited about her book. OLIVE Hi, Elinor . Hi Ari. ARI What are you reading? Now Olive looks up, beaming. OLIVE A really amazing book. It’s about a princess who goes into a magical forest to rescue a prince. What’s inside that forest? Dun dun dunnn ... it’s a mystery! ARI Whoa. That does sound good. ELINOR W e’re going to play tag. Want to play with us? Olive looks thoughtful. OLIVE Hmm. That sounds like fun. But... I really want to finish this book. I wish I could read and play tag at the same time. But it would be too easy to tag me if I kept looking down at my book. (Olive looks down at her book. The kids <SFX: GIGGLE> ) Okay, I’ll play tag. I’m IT! Ari and Olive <SFX: LAUGH> or <SFX: SCREAM PLAYFULLY> as Olive sets down her book and runs after them. 2. INT. OLIVE’s HOUSE - BEDROOM - NIGHT Olive is in her PJs , sitting up in bed, avidly reading her book by the light of a bedside lamp. There’s a window showing the moon and some stars. MS. ELEPHANT pokes her head into the bedroom. Ms ELEPHANT All right, my little bookworm- it’s time to sleep. OLIVE But I want to know how the story ends! The princess is almost at the magical forest. I wonder what happens next. MS ELEPHANT Sweetheart, your book will still be there in the morning. N ow it’s time to sleep . Nighttime is when elephants sleep. Ms. Elephant looks thoughtfully at her watch, or at a clock. MS ELEPHANT (CONT’D) How about I give you five more minutes to read? Then it’s lights out. OLIVE Yay! Thanks, mom. Ms. Elephant walks up, leans down, and gives Olive a kiss on the forehead. MS ELEPHANT I love that I have a daughter who’s so excited about reading. I hope that your dreams are full of interesting stories, too. OLIVE Thanks, mom. Night night. MS ELEPHANT Goodnight , sweetie. Remember, just five more minutes. Ms. Elephant leaves the room. Olive buries her head in her book again. OLIVE [to herself] Right. Just five more minutes. We see Olive reading, and get a sense of time passing, eg . a MONTAGE - dissolve she is in 3 different poses - each one with her body showing fatigue, eyelids getting lower INTERCUT WITH: ANGLE ON: the moon setting outside a window, maybe with the sky lightening a little. BACK ON: Olive looking bleary-eyed. OLIVE (CONT’D) Oops. I think that was a little more than five minutes. She yawns, flops over, and passes out on her book. 3. EXT. TOWN - MORNING The next morning, Elinor is walking to pick up Olive and Ari on the way to school. She’s wearing her backpack. She walks past a tree where her chickadee friend has perched. ELINOR Good morning, Chicky ! I’m off to school. Hope you have a great chicka-day . Chicky <SFX: CHIRPS>. Elinor walks a little, then meets up with Ari outside his house. ELINOR (CONT’D) Morning, Ari! How are you today? ARI Great! I slept so well. I can’t wait to play tag, I’m gonna be SOOO fast! They begin walking. ELINOR Me too! Let’s go get Olive. Hmm. I wonder if she finished her book. She’s a fast reader, but that was a GIGANTIC book. Elinor and Ari approach Olive’s house. Olive has her satchel and she’s standing on the sidewalk, looking exhausted and spacey. ELINOR (CONT’D) Hi Olive! Olive <SFX: YAWNS>. OLIVE ( sleepy ) Hi Nelinor . I mean, hi Relinor . I mean... hi friend. ELINOR Olive, are you ok ? ELINOR (CONT’D) ( sleepy ) Yeah. YAWN. ARI Did you finish your book? OLIVE ( sleepy ) No. I got closer, though. My mom let me read for five extra minutes, but the book was so good that I lost track of time and accidentally read for a lot longer. ELINOR So you didn’t sleep? OLIVE ( sleepy ) I only slept a little. But I got to read more of my book. I’m gonna ask my mom if I can stay up again tonight. Then I can finish this YAWN story. ARI Huh. I thought everyone just sort of HAS to sleep. If I didn’t sleep, I’d have a lot more time to play! ELINOR I’ve never really thought about it before. Why DO we need to sleep? What’s it good for? OLIVE ( sleepy ) That’s a YAWN good question. ELINOR I know! Let’s see if we can find any animals sleeping on the way to school. Maybe that will help us figure out why we sleep. ARI Yeah! OLIVE ( sleepy ) YeaaaYAWN . I mean, yeah. I’ll get out my note pad and keep track of what we’ve observed. The kids start walking. They reach a tree that has a great horned owl perched on a branch close to the trunk. ELINOR There’s an owl! ARI Ooh . OWL take a closer look. The kids <SFX: GIGGLE>. SCIENCE CU: the owl. It’s puffed up, eyes closed, asleep. ARI (O.S.) (CONT’D) Its eyes are closed and it’s not moving. I think it’s sleeping. BACK ON: The kids. ELINOR My mom taught me that owls sleep during the day , when we’re awake. ARI Huh. When do they fly around? ELINOR At night, when we’re asleep. ARI So they’re soaring while I’m snoring. Ari does a loud <SFX: SNORE>. The kids <SFX: GIGGLE>. Olive takes out her notebook and draws a sleeping owl. CU: Olive’s drawing. OLIVE (O.S.) ( sleepy ) There. A sleeping owl. BACK ON: The kids. ELINOR Okay. Let’s get some MORE OBSERVATIONS. They keep walking and come across a lizard sleeping on a rock. OLIVE ( sleepy ) I see a liz-YAWN . ARI What’s a lizYAWN ? Olive points. SCIENCE CU: The sleeping lizard. ELINOR (O.S.) Oh, a lizard! Its eyes are closed and it’s not moving. I’m going to get a closer look. Elinor leans into frame. ELINOR (CONT’D) [ whispering ] Yes, it seems to be sleeping. Elinor leans back out. The lizard’s eyes pop open. It scurries away with a ton of energy. BACK ON: The kids. ELINOR (CONT’D) Guess it’s time to wake up! ARI That lizard ran off with a LOT of energy. I bet it’s really good at tag. OLIVE ( sleepy ) Right. We saw a sleeping lizard. CU: Olive’s notebook. She draws a sleeping lizard. BACK ON: The kids. They keep walking and reach a pond (or river - whatever makes sense for the geography of the place). They walk up to the edge and look down into the water. ELINOR I wonder if there are any sleeping animals in the water. CUT TO: A carp floating in a patch of reeds down at the bottom. ELINOR (O.S.) (CONT’D) I see a fish . It’s not moving. Is it sleeping ? SCIENCE CU: The carp’s head. It’s motionless, but its eyes are open (since fish don’t have eyelids). ARI (O.S.) Hmm. It sure looks like it’s resting, but its eyes are open. It’s a fish mystery. A fishstery ! ELINOR (O.S.) I don’t think fish can close their eyes. They don’t have eyelids. BACK ON: The kdis . ARI No way! That means they can’t wink when they have a fun secret. Ari turns to his friends, winking. ARI (CONT’D) ( whispering comically) Psst. My secret is that my friends are cool. The kids <SFX: GIGGLE>. Elinor looks thoughtful. ELINOR Hmm. I always close my eyes when I sleep . Otherwise, I’d get PRETTY bored looking at my ceiling all night. BACK ON: The kids, who <SFX: LAUGH>. ARI So, I guess that fish isn’t sleeping. Maybe fish don’t sleep. Olive is drawing in her notebook. OLIVE (sleepy) Right. The fish can’t be sleeping because its eyes are open. CU: Olive’s notebook. Under the drawing of the owl, she’s drawn a toothy-looking shark. ELINOR (O.S.) Wait, Olive, did you draw a shark instead of a fish ? OLIVE (O.S.) Oops! The kids <SFX: GIGGLE>. Olive erases it and draws a carp with its eyes open . ELINOR (o.S.) So, we saw a sleeping owl, a sleeping lizard, and a fish that’s not sleeping. BACK ON: The kids, who start walking again , approaching the school. Olive is triumphant. OLIVE ( sleepy ) If fish don’t sleep, then maybe I don’t have to, either. That’s good to know. Okay, let’s go to the pool. ELINOR You mean the school? OLIVE (sleepy) Oops. That’s what I meant. The kids <SFX: GIGGLE>. Then Elinor looks thoughtful. ELINOR Hmm. 4. EXT. SCHOOLYARD - DAY It’s recess, and we once again pan across the kids playing in the schoolyard. Olive is sitting under the same tree, reading her book. She’s squinting at the book, looking like she’s having trouble reading it. Ari and Elinor walk up to her. ELINOR Hey, Olive. OLIVE ( sleepy ) YAWN. I mean, hi. ARI Did you get to the part of the book where the princess saves the prince? OLIVE ( sleepy ) No. I’m having trouble reading. The words are really blurry on the page. I keep losing my place. ARI Hmm. Do you want to come play tag instead? OLIVE ( sleepy ) Sure. YAWN. Maybe running around will help wake me up. ELINOR Yay! Do you want to be It? OLIVE You bet I do . Olive puts her book down and runs after her friends. They <SFX: GIGGLE>. But as Olive chases them, she begins to slow down. OLIVE (CONT’D) ( sleepy ) Whew. I’m out of breath already. ELINOR Olive, are you okay? ARI Yeah, what’s up, Olive? OLIVE ( sleepy ) I don’t know. Why can’t I run as fast as I usually can? The kids all look thoughtful. ELINOR Hmm. Let’s think. You can’t run as fast as usual, and it’s hard to read a book, and you keep getting confused. OLIVE (sleepy) Yup. That’s all true. (loudly) YAWN. ARI Olive, I think your yawns are getting louder. If you yawn any louder, your trunk will fall off! ELINOR Wait. That yawn gives me an idea. I usually yawn when I’m sleepy. Ari, you slept a lot last night, right? ARI I sure did! ELINOR I did too! And we both have lots of energy. But Olive, you didn’t sleep very much and now you feel tired. OLIVE ( sleepy ) Oh. You’re right. ELINOR Hey, maybe that’s what sleeping is good for. If we don’t sleep, we feel tired. ARI Yeah, and we can’t do the things we usually do. OLIVE ( sleepy ) That makes sense. YAWN. MZ. MOLE walks up to the kids. She looks concerned. MZ MOLE Olive, are you okay? That was the loudest yawn I’ve ever heard. ELINOR Mz. Mole, Olive stayed up really late to read her book. She didn’t get a lot of sleep. ARI Yeah, and now she’s really tired. She can’t read her book well or play tag well. ELINOR We think maybe that’s why we need to sleep! So we don’t feel tired. If we don’t sleep, it’s harder to do the things we need to do. MZ MOLE You’re right . Sleep is really important, especially when you’re a growing kid! When you sleep, your body rests and your energy comes back. When you wake up, you don’t feel tired and you can do all the things you like to do. OLIVE ( sleepy ) Mz. Mole, do ALL animals need to sleep? MZ MOLE Most of them do, but they don’t all rest in the same way. THOUGHT BUBBLE: a sleeping green tree frog. MZ MOLE (CONT’D) For instance, a green tree frog has sticky toes, and it sleeps by sticking itself the underside of a leaf and closing its eyes. ARI Wow! That’s unbe-LEAF-able . THOUGHT BUBBLE: a sleeping toucan. MZ MOLE A toucan turns its head all the way around and tucks its big beak into its back feathers. ELINOR Bye bye beak! That’s SO INTERESTING. Lots of animals rest in different ways. THOUGHT BUBBLE over Elinor: carp fish sleeping in the pond/creek. ELINOR (CONT’D) Hmm. Mz. Mole, we saw a fish earlier that looked like it was resting, but its eyes were open. Was it just resting in a different way? MZ MOLE Yes! Fish don’t have eyelids, but they can rest or sleep with their eyes open. The kids <SFX: WHOA>. OLIVE ( sleepy ) Hmm. Sleep is pretty interesting. And I guess it’s pretty important, too. Ari, Elinor, and Mz. Mole sing a sweet lullaby-style song about their discovery while we see a montage sleeping animals. ELINOR/ARI/MZ MOLE ALL: Why should you rest When you’re all tired out? When the night winds blow And the owls fly about? ELINOR: Your body needs rest So you can play. You sleep all night To have fun all day. ALL: Why should you rest When you’re all tired out? When the night winds blow And the owls fly about? ARI: When you sleep, You get more energy . Your body heals up, To feel as good as can be . ALL: That’s why you rest When you’re all tired out, When the night winds blow And the owls fly about. As the song ends, Mz. Mole, Elinor, and Ari realize that Olive has fallen asleep. ELINOR ( whispering ) Oh, looks like Olive finally fell asleep. ARI (whispering) Maybe she’s finishing her story in her dreams. ANGLE ON: In her sleep, Olive smiles. BACK ON Elinor, who leans closer to her. ELINOR ( whispering ) Psst Olive... make sure to give your story a happy ending! The kids <SFX: GIGGLE> as we IRIS OUT: On Olive sweet sleeping face (maybe she snores through her trunk) <SFX: SNOOOORE> THE END.

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ELINOR WONDERS WHY 171: REST IS BEST Written by Rosemary Mosco Elinor’s Question: Why do I need to rest? Logline: When Olive decides she’d rather stay up late than sleep, her friends help to convince her that most animals need rest. Curriculum Goals: LS2c . Compare how the external body parts of animals and plants are the same and/or different. [The kids learn that some animals don't have eyelids, and that different animals rest in different ways.] LS4a . Observe the life cycle of familiar plants and animals. [The kids notice that some animals sleep at night and are active during the day, and others sleep during the day and are active at night.] SEP3b . Compare and contrast objects and events by describing similarities and differences in detail. [The kids observe and compare different resting animals.] Main Characters: Elinor, Olive, Ari, Mz . Mole Secondary Characters: Ms. Elephant Props: Butterflies, Olive's huge storybook, backpacks/satchels, Chicky the chickadee, Olive's notebook, great-horned owl, carp, butterfly, stool, small book about sleep, green tree frog, toucan, blanket. Locations: Schoolyard, Olive's house (bedroom), sidewalk, river/pond. FIRST DRAFT: 17-Apr-20 SECOND DRAFT: 01-May-20 POLISH: 13-May-20 ARI ELINOR ELINOR/OLIVE/ARI OLIVE MS ELEPHANT MZ MOLE ELINOR/ARI ELINOR/ARI/MZ MOLE (V.O.) (O.S.) (O.C.) (CONT'D) (SUBTITLE) INT EXT I/E 1 2 1 3 4 5 6 THE END. INT CLASSROOM -- DAY SUNLIT FOREST CLEARING -- CONTINUOUS PARK -- DAY EXT -- PARK EXT -- LAKE WATERS -- CONTINUOUS EXT -- LAKE SHORE -- CONTINUOUS EXT -- LAKE WATERS -- A MINUTE LATER EXT. SIDEWALK NEAR OLIVE'S HOUSE 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. Order Title Location ELINOR ELINOR