Thursday: Isaac's story

The teachers at Isaac's school put on a teacher's theatre at the end of every year.  The students write the plays and the teachers act one out.  Isaac was really proud of his story, so here it is.  (I had him dictate it to me in the interest of time.  The names are those of fellow classmates.)

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Once upon a time there lived Isaac, Paten, M, and Yahaira.  They were lost in the forest.  They needed to find their way home.  They remembered they had climbed a tree and come back down.  But there wasn't a good way to get back up again.  

Isaac said, "we're lost"

Paten said, "I put green berries down for markers on the way here."

Yahaira: "Let's follow the trail markers back."

Paten said, "I ranned [sic] out of them eventually on our way but there were some mysterious trees with carvings on them on the way too."

M said, "Let's find those trees with the carvings on them and then find our way back"

Isaac said, "Great idea"

Isaac, Paten, M, and Yahaira spread out in a little space to find the trees with the carvings on them.

M was the first one to find a tree with a carving on it.  So we found the other trees that lead the way to the trail but they got harder the farther we went.  When we found the trail of green berries, we followed it to the giant tree in the forest.  And then we tried looking for a way up the giant tree.

Yahaira found a big log that was easy to climb inside.  So all of us worked together to put it by the edge of the tree straight up and down.  There was a hole in the top of it that was big enough for us to fit through.  And then Paten found a good support for other things for us to get up with.  Isaac found a tree with a little ledge on it.  There were some stairs by the giant tree and M found a platform to go far enough to the stairs.  So we put the platform on the support and on the giant tree there was a little step big enough for each of us to step on so we each tried doing the structure we built by the giant tree.  It worked but now how would we get down?

Isaac found a tall tree that was very light and had a little ledge by the bottom that was the right spot to replace the piece of tree that had broken when we came to the other side.  And then all of us came down.  And then we just went through a few more trees and we were out of the forest.

Yahaira saw an army guarding the entrance of the cave that we had to get through next.  And Yahaira said, "How will we get through that army?"

So we went back into the forest, but not past the giant tree again.  And found something that we could use.  Yahaira found a log that has a stairs shape to it and a long piece of wood.  Isaac found some very strong supports and some of them were thin enough that we could fit between the army.  Paten found a log that was too short but it was easy to get down through.  M found a piece of wood that looked like it has been carved.  It had a hole in the top and a hole in the side that was big enough for all of us to fit through.  We put the stairs in first and then we put the long piece of wood and then we put the supports with the thin on the bottom and then we all were carrying and slowly lifted the piece of wood that looked like it had been carved until it was at the floor with the hole on the side facing away from the army.  And the hole on the top facing up.  And they put the log that was easy to climb down through down on the piece of wood that looks like it has been carved.  Then we all went on it and went to the other side of the army.  And then we figured out our way through the cave again using the green berries.  And then we saw home and walked to home.