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.
