1. INT. CLASSROOM - DAY
Pan in from the window that shows a snowy wintery setting outside. Olive stands at the front of the class proudly showing off a jar of cherries.
Mz
. Mole stands by as the rest of the class sits in the audience.
MZ
. MOLE
What are you sharing with us today, Olive?
OLIVE
Delicious summer cherries!
The kids marvel at the red, glistening treasure.
<SFX:
OOOO
!
AHHH!>
ARI
Hey
waitaminute
.
How do you have summer cherries in the middle of winter?
OLIVE
My
Mom
and I picked them
last summer and saved them so we could all enjoy them in the winter.
MZ
. MOLE
You know, that reminds me of a special kind of ant
that saves food for
later.
Elinor perks up.
ELINOR
Ants
save up
food
too
?
MZ
. MOLE
Sure - I have a book all about that!
The kids crowd around to get a closer look as
Mz
. Mole opens up her Magic Pop-up Book.
2. EXT DRY FOREST FLOOR (BOOK) -- DAY
As we peer into
Mz
. Mole’s book, we see ants scurrying around a dry forest floor, collecting food.
MZ
. MOLE (O.C.)
(Cont’D)
These are special kinds of ants, called “
Honeypot
Ants”!
ARI (O.C.)
Why are they called “
Honeypot
Ants”?
They don’t look like
pots of honey
.
MZ
. MOLE (O.C.)
Not yet, but they will!
We see the ants collecting nectar from flowers.
ELINOR (o.c.)
What are the ants doing,
Mz
. Mole?
MZ
. MOLE (O.C.)
When there is a lot of nectar around, the ants collect the extra, and they save it for later
.
In the book, we see an ant with a bit of food in its mouth, walking toward a tiny
jar
.
ELINOR (O.c.)
How do they save it? Ants
don’t have jars, do they?
MZ
. MOLE (O.c.)
Ha! They don’t have jars
.
Instead, a few of the ants store the extra nectar inside their bodies!
(In book) The
jar
disappears in a
poof
.
<SFX:
POOF>
The ants come back to the hive and join a queue leading up to a storage ant. The workers deliver their food to the storage ant one by one.
MZ
. MOLE (O.S.) (CONT’D
)
A
nd
so
they grow... and grow.... And grow...!
(In book) close up on hero ant’s body as she transforms from a normal looking ant and gradually swells to have the iconic
honeypot
ant shape. Her abdomen is huge and translucent, full of golden liquid food. Her little legs wiggle around, unable to move her body. She looks stuffed!
ARI (O.c.)
Oh, I get it! That’s why they’re called “
honeypot
ants!” Their bodies are like pots full of honey!
MZ
. MOLE (O.c.)
And
this little ant shares the extra food with the other ants when they need it later!
3. INT CLASSROOM
Olive proudly holds her jar of cherries aloft again.
OlIVE
And we store cherries in the summer, so we can share them later.
ARI
Is it “later” yet..?
Olive pops off the lid of the jar with her trunk with a flourish, and as she does so says..
OLIVE
Let’s eat.
ELINOR WONDERS WHY
EWW
interstitial: 131
Mz
. Mole
Storytime
Ants Share Food
Robert
Kalinowski
Follows:
ep
131A
"Olive's Library"
Curriculum: the kids learn about the
Honeypot
Ant, an ant which stores up food when food is plentiful in the form of honey in their abdomens, and then shares the stored honey when food is scarce.
LS1
. Understand that in some environments, food is sometimes plentiful and sometimes scarce.
LS2
. Understand that ants live in large, communal groups called colonies, with different ants performing different functions.
LS3
. Understand that certain individuals in a
Honeypot
Ant colony store up food as honey in their bodies when food is plentiful, so that they can share it later when food is scarce.
FIRST DRAFT: Feb. 10, 2020
SECOND DRAFT: Feb. 25, 2020
OLIVE
ARI
CAMILLA
MS. MOLE
ELINOR
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