Rose and Mike reach a simple wooden trail gate beside a pine tree with Mum on the wide dry marked path. Rose rolls the dry pictorial clue and puts it in the clear waterproof map tube, Mum holds its removable cap. Waterfall remains distant behind a railing; relaxed natural smiles.

The Note by the Waterfall

Phase 6 · Book 3
Focus split-digraph review and short/long vowels

Rose and Mike walk with Mum on a broad dry fenced viewing path near a distant waterfall, always safely behind a wooden railing. Rose holds a small white paper clue with simple pictorial symbols; mist floats nearby. Mike wears a green cap.

Rose and Mike play a trail game with Mum. They stop on a wide path by a waterfall. Rose has a note with their next clue. A fine mist drifts onto the paper.

Behind the railing on the same wide path, Rose and Mike examine the small damp white paper clue with a blurred pictorial pine-tree and gate symbol; Mum stays beside them. Waterfall far in background, no readable writing.

Rose looks at the note. The ink has run. “Is that a tree or a gate?” she asks. Mike cannot tell.

Mike holds his green cap against the damp small paper note as a small tear appears at its edge. Rose watches; Mum opens her canvas bag. All remain behind the railing on dry ground.

Mike wipes the note with his cap. The paper tears. “It is not clear,” he says. Mum opens her bag.

Mum takes a clean dry duplicate paper clue from a clear waterproof map tube with a removable cap in her canvas bag. Rose and Mike look at its clear pictorial pine-tree and gate symbols, no writing. Mike wears his green cap. Everyone behind the railing on the dry viewing path.

“I have a spare note,” says Mum. She takes it from a clear tube. They read it together. “Find the pine tree by the gate.”

They follow the path away from the mist. There is the pine tree by the gate! Rose puts the dry note back in its tube. “Now we can finish our game.”

The Note by the Waterfall

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