The Rainforest Story by Belle, Molly, Poppy, Tanaz and Tess
Last summer the Giraffes moved into a beautiful rainforest. The rainforest is a gentle, peaceful place to be with lots of trees, grass and crunching leaves on the forest floor. A thousand tiny green leaves shimmering in the sunlight.
All around are birds whistling, tweeting and flapping their wings. Wherever you are, you can hear the sound of water. The whoosh of the waterfall, the damp dripping, drip, drip, drip of raindrops falling from the trees and the racing of the river.
Tess, Tanaz, Poppy, Molly and Belle live in a treehouse high up in the canopy. There are seven bedrooms, a kitchen, toilet and research centre where the Giraffes do all there study measuring stuff and counting the number of animals that live in the rainforest.
One day there was a flash of light in the forest, and a rumbling crashing sound. The trees trusted the Giraffes as their friends and family and they screamed, “Help us! Help us! Help us!” The Giraffes looked through their telescope to see what the rumbling noise was and why the trees were screaming. What they saw made the Giraffes feel alarmed and sad. They saw two giant yellow trucks coming towards their treehouse and knocking down everything in their path. The Giraffes wanted to know why the monstrous trucks were destroying the trees. They wanted to build a city. The Giraffes were furious AND heartbroken! The trucks were just following the instructions of their boss but at the same time they were crushing all the tiny animals and plants, destroying habitats and creating terror!
The Giraffes had to explain that you can’t build cities all over the world. Several cities in every state and territory are fine but not one hundred. We need trees to give us oxygen. Trees keep us alive. They are also fun to climb and birds live there, bats hang upside down in their branches, possums hide in trees during the day, except when they are in your roof. Trees are also beautiful and precious. They provide shade and feed the soil with their leaves. The Giraffes explained all of this to the city developers. The Giraffes persuaded the developers that they also needed air to breath. The trucks stopped and they helped to rebuild the rainforest by planting new seeds to grow trees.
Together the Giraffes and the city builders created a special park with tiny huts that people could come and stay in to experience the magic of the rainforest. While they were building, they made an underground, magical, secret house with potions in it and comfy beds. There was a twirly whirly slide to get down to the underground house and the Giraffes lived happily ever after. Well, at least until their next adventure!