Grace Jack Mum wear plain paper crowns and share cake at garden picnic bench with open treasure box.

The Waterfall Treasure

Phase 9 · Book 5
Focus advanced spelling review

Grace Jack Mum find a small locked wooden box on dry bench beside fenced visitor garden path.

Grace and Jack follow a trail with Mum. A waterfall tumbles beyond the fence. They find a wooden box on a dry bench. A little lock keeps it shut.

Grace Jack Mum study three picture cards of boat bird crown beside locked wooden box on bench.

Three picture cards lie beside the box. One shows a boat, one a bird and one a crown. “Which picture will help?” asks Jack. Grace notices a note beneath the cards.

Jack points to bird picture card while Grace thinks and Mum holds plain note.

Mum reads the note. “Find what has wings but cannot fly.” Jack points to the bird card. “But a bird can fly,” says Grace.

Grace points to waist high wooden garden windmill beside small cabin on safe dry path as Jack Mum watch.

They look along the safe garden path. A wooden windmill turns beside a cabin. “Its wings turn, but it stays here!” says Grace. Mum leads them to the windmill.

Grace uses a little key to open wooden treasure box on bench while Jack holds red ribbon and Mum watches.

Behind the windmill is a small key on a red ribbon. Jack lifts it from a hook. They return to the bench together. Grace turns the key. Click! The box opens.

Inside are paper crowns and a picnic note. They put on crowns and share Mum’s cake. “We found the waterfall treasure!” says Jack. “And our wings never left the ground,” says Grace.

The Waterfall Treasure

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