ACARA Years 3-6
— A child recalls the surprise trip to the airport to pick up their new puppy, Yoda, arriving from Korea on Halloween day.
— An alien boy playing hide-and-seek accidentally gets sealed in a delivery box and shipped across his massive city before being discovered and returned home.
— A fourth-grader recalls the day a tornado warning interrupted a phonics quiz, forcing students to shelter while wind rattled the shutters outside.
— A four-year-old puts a bean in her ear during preschool nap time, keeps it secret for days, and finally gets it removed at a foreign object removal clinic.
— A girl finds a dying kitten in the snow and her veterinary-student sister saves it, bringing the sisters closer after growing apart.
— A girl and her brother search for an owl in the woods, find it perched on an oak tree, and watch in wonder until it flies away.
— In a grocery store's frozen aisle, siblings shiver in T-shirts while their mother shops, finding warmth in imagined tastes and makeshift shopping-bag capes.
— A girl brings a curtain rod to school as a cane after injuring her foot, transforming recess into an imaginary voyage across seas, inspiring her friend to seek the same...
— A child compares lunches with a classmate, each envying what the other has—yogurt versus rice with seaweed—discovering that nothing tastes as good when it's yours.
— Siblings build a twig house in a clover field after rain, only to find their creation destroyed by gardeners the next day.