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♪ Hey, whatcha doing?

♪ Everybody's moving It's time for Little Lunch

♪ Time for running, swinging, sliding ♪ Uh-huh

♪ Time to bounce and seek and hide ♪ Uh-huh

♪ Shouting, laughing, climbing ♪ Uh-huh

♪ Skip this beat and start that rhyme

♪ Before your class goes back, well, you gotta eat your snack

♪ Take off the plastic wrap

♪ And do a little handclap

♪ Hey, whatcha doing?

♪ Everybody's moving Hey, whatcha doing?

♪ It's time for Little Lunch! ♪ Whoo!

Today is Mrs Gonsha's birthday.

We're making her a sign. A birthday sign.

What's that?

It's a gherkin cake.

What? Mrs Gonsha loves gherkins.

We're giving Mrs Gonsha a surprise birthday party.

I'm not sure if it's still a surprise, but I hope so.

Me too.

Mrs Gonsha! I remembered to bring cupcakes for your party today.

What party? Your birthday pa...

Everyone wants to give Mrs Gonsha a good party,

because we all like her a lot.

She's smart, funny, kind.

She's really kind. Rory, I said, what party?

Uh... Because I don't know anything about a party.

That's because it was supposed to be a surprise.

No, I don't know anything about a party, alright?

She's really, really kind.

Everybody knows that Mrs Gonsha is the best teacher in the school.

But until last Thursday, we didn't know she was also the bravest.

That was the day we had our dress rehearsal

for the school concert at the town hall.

Come on! Quick sticks!

Our grade had finished rehearsal and were coming back for little lunch.

We were starving

because we had practised our gravity dance three times.

And we couldn't wait to get to our snacks.

But when we got round the corner...

Guys, look!

..there was a little kid on top of the fireman's pole.

In the senior playground.

He was from the junior school. In the senior playground.

I think he got excited because all the big kids were at dress rehearsal

and the senior playground was empty.

But that's no excuse for being in the senior playground.

On the highest piece of equipment.

Because now he was stuck.

Help!

You know when you climb up a tree,

and you suddenly realise you've climbed too far

and you can't get down and you start to panic?

That's what happened to this little kid.

He was gonna get in a lot of trouble when he came down.

You could tell by Mrs Gonsha's face.

I was about to suggest to Mrs Gonsha

that we should call the fire brigade to get him down,

but she told us to get Mr Haliotis and then...

Suddenly... Without even thinking about it...

She had climbed up on top of the slide pole

next to the little kid.

It was amazing.

She got up so fast.

She didn't even stop to take off her handbag.

The little kid started to calm down

because he felt safe with Mrs Gonsha holding him.

Now big, big blow.

And we had run and got Mr Haliotis, the PE teacher.

Mrs Gonsha passed the little kid over to Mr Haliotis,

who carried him down the rest of the equipment

and all of the way to the office.

And if you didn't see Mr Haliotis carry him, you heard him.

What do you think your parents are going to say?

Mr Haliotis called his parents.

That is the worst trouble you can be in,

when they call your parents.

They come and get you.

And your mum doesn't speak to you in the car

because she's so angry.

And at home your dad yells at you.

And then they both go really quiet because they're so disappointed.

I mean, that might be what happens, because, yeah, I don't know.

After all the drama of the rescue,

we remembered how hungry we were, so we went to get our snack.

Mrs Gonsha was amazing. Yeah.

So amazing. Hey, where'd she go?

We suddenly realised that we'd seen the little kid come down,

we'd seen Mr Haliotis come down,

but we hadn't seen Mrs Gonsha come down.

And that was because she hadn't come down.

She was still up the top of the fireman's pole.

I started to laugh and said it was so typical of Mrs Gonsha.

She always wants to join in when we play handball and basketball,

and now she wants to play on the equipment.

And I said, 'I don't think she wants to play at all.'

You know when you climb up a tree

and you suddenly realise that you can't get down,

and you start to panic?

That's what happened to Mrs Gonsha.

Are you OK, Mrs Gonsha?

Mrs Gonsha?

Maybe she wants some quiet time.

She always says school concert days give her a headache.

That's when I remembered

the day we celebrated the 100-year anniversary of the belltower.

Mrs Gonsha was chosen to go up and ring the bell

with the principal and the mayor.

But Mrs Gonsha didn't ring it.

She wouldn't let go of the bell.

Which was a shame, because the ringing sounded really muffled.

The mayor and Mr Haliotis

had to give her a fireman's lift to get her down.

She looked really worried and she was white and kind of sweaty.

Which is exactly how she looked now

on top of the fireman's pole, because...

Mrs Gonsha is afraid of heights!

Afraid of heights? Why would she climb up there in the first place

if she was afraid of heights?

She wasn't thinking about it, Rory.

She was only thinking about not letting that little kid fall.

All she has to do is swing down to the pole and slide down.

Yeah! Hey, Mrs Gonsha!

All you have to do is swing down to the pole and slide down!

I don't think she can hear you.

Hey! Mrs Gonsha!

All you have to do is swing down to the pole and slide down!

She means she can't hear you because...

..she's too scared.

Sometimes when I see a big dog, I get really scared and I can't move.

Or not even a big dog. Yeah.

Sometimes it's a little dog. Yeah.

Sometimes it's a teensy weensy dog.

I think the point is, I knew how Mrs Gonsha was feeling.

I like going to sleep with the light on,

because sometimes I get scared in the dark,

and all frozen up like Mrs Gonsha.

We can never play Murder in the Dark at sleepovers

because Melanie curls up in a little ball

and we trip over her and someone gets hurt.

A boy I know gets scared of thunder.

He doesn't like it at all,

even though he knows it can't hurt him.

Hey, that's like you!

You get scared of thunder too!

Remember that time you were at my house, and you hid under my bed?

Anyway... we'd worked out what the problem was.

Now we needed to work out how to fix it.

I could go get the principal.

She's at the dress rehearsal.

I could go get Mr Haliotis again. What if he yells at Mrs Gonsha?

Yeah, we don't want to get her in trouble.

Rory's right. I am?

Mr Haliotis is one of those teachers who sounds angry

even when he's being nice.

We were worried that he might scare Mrs Gonsha,

even if he was helping.

There had to be a way to help her down ourselves.

We had to think of a plan.

We all thought really hard.

Rory, are you thinking? Yes.

About how to get Mrs Gonsha down? No.

I find it hard to think about things for too long.

It wasn't even 10 seconds. Luckily, Melanie had a good idea.

We need to get Mrs Gonsha to relax!

Relaxing is the opposite of worrying.

If she relaxes, she'll be able to come down.

It was a really good idea.

But getting someone to relax is harder than you think.

Especially because some people's idea of things to make you relax

are different from yours.

I think my recorder helped Mrs Gonsha relax.

She closed her eyes and listened to the music.

Firstly, that wasn't music.

Secondly, she wasn't relaxing when she closed her eyes.

She was hurting, like this.

Well, anyway, I did a better job than Battie.

'Chapter 20.

Stretcho's arm had never been tested like this before...'

I decided to read from my short story,

Stretcho and the Erkmon Invasion.

'The elastic arm knew just where the danger was.'

I remembered last time I read my story to Mrs Gonsha,

she got so relaxed that she fell asleep.

But we then got worried that if she fell asleep, she might fall off.

So Tamara thought she could wake her up a bit.

Gimme a G, gimme an O, gimme an N, gimme an S,

give me an H, gimme an A!

What does that spell?

Can you do it again? I missed a few of the letters.

Oh! It spelt 'Gonsha'!

My dad says he always relaxes people at work by telling a joke.

And the hedge fund manager says,

'Now we really WILL need those hedge clippers!'

I don't get it. Neither do I. Me neither!

You're not supposed to. It's a grown-up joke for Mrs Gonsha.

My dad says it's super funny.

But actually I didn't get the joke either.

I don't think I made Mrs Gonsha very relaxed at all.

She was looking whiter and sweatier, so Melanie tried something else.

♪ You smell like perfume and flowers

♪ You have teacher super powers... ♪

Sometimes my mum makes up little songs

and it always makes me relax.

It was going really well, and Melanie's voice is really soothing.

♪ We really like you, Mrs Gonsha

♪ You're... ♪

I couldn't think of anything to rhyme with Mrs Gonsha.

Nothing was working.

The truth was, we were just six kids dressed as aliens.

We couldn't get Mrs Gonsha down by ourselves.

I'm going to get Mr Haliotis. I'll come with you.

Guys, wait! I've got an idea!

I thought that if Mrs Gonsha got stuck up the top of the pole

trying to rescue a little kid,

the way to get her down

is to make her think another kid's in trouble now.

That sort of makes sense.

So she'd forget about being up high. But what could we say?

Battie's broken his leg! No!

Battie cut his head open! No!

Battie got bit by a poisonous snake?

Why is all the bad stuff happening to me?

Rory, it doesn't have to be something really bad,

just enough to make her think something bad could happen.

I suddenly knew exactly what the answer was.

I've never had that feeling before.

Mrs Gonsha! It's me, Rory! I lost my lunch box!

He lost his lunch box?!

Rory loses his lunch box all the time.

How was that supposed to get Mrs Gonsha to come down?

The thing is, Mrs Gonsha, today, I'm really sorry,

I accidentally packed a peanut butter sandwich.

In the last school newsletter,

it said that our school has eight children allergic to eggs,

three allergic to seafood, seven allergic to gluten,

and 22 allergic to peanuts.

You read the newsletter? Rory was a genius.

And that's a sentence I never thought I'd say.

Rory's idea worked.

Mrs Gonsha stopped being scared. You packed what?

A peanut butter sandwich, and now I don't know where it is.

Maybe it's in the junior playground!

She stopped being scared

and started looking really angry, and...

Just like she did when she saw the little kid up there.

And she was so angry

that she didn't even realise she'd swung down onto the pole

and come down on the ground.

Has anyone seen Rory's lunch box?

No, Mrs Gonsha! Rory made that up!

There is no peanut butter sandwich. You made it up? Yes.

Why on earth would you make something like that up?

So you would come down.

Then Mrs Gonsha got a bit soppy, and kept saying,

'Thank you, Rory, thank you.'

She said Rory had just done a very kind thing for her.

But I must never tell another lie

about having a peanut butter sandwich when I didn't.

Hurry up!

I'm glad I could do something kind for Mrs Gonsha.

Surprise!

What?

How did you...? When did you...? I had no idea!

Because she does lots of kind things for me.

♪ Uh-huh

♪ Uh-huh

♪ Hey, whatcha doing?

♪ Everybody's moving Hey, whatcha doing?

♪ It's time for Little Lunch! ♪ Whoo!

This morning, Mr Haliotis, the PE teacher,

got mad because the soccer balls are missing.

Mr Haliotis said if we couldn't look after the sports equipment,

then he would teach us how.

During little lunch.

I told Mr Haliotis that I already know how

to look after the sports equipment

and that I didn't lose any soccer balls.

Mr Haliotis didn't care.

Which was really annoying, because I don't lose things.

Except for on Wednesday.

On Wednesday, she lost her glasses.

I didn't lose them. Yes, you did.

No... I... didn't.

My glasses.

My glasses!

Where... are... my glasses?

My glasses went missing.

I didn't lose them.

I already told you, I don't lose things.

I can't find my glasses.

I took them off to splash my face and now they're gone.

Where did you last see them? On my face.

But after that?

Then I didn't see them, because I need my glasses to see.

They must have dropped somewhere here.

We looked in the sink, we looked around the sink,

we looked under the sink...

But the only thing we found under there was...

Battie?

It's getting harder to find some alone time.

Particularly when Mr Haliotis says

we have to clean out the sports cupboard during little lunch.

Isn't he the best?

Battie was under the sink but Debra-Jo's glasses weren't.

They're not here.

They're definitely not here.

How can they have disappeared?

Someone must have stolen them.

Did you see anyone take them?

No, because I need my glasses to see.

Remind me never to open a detective agency with Tamara.

Why do we need all these balls anyway?

You only use one in a game.

So after Debra-Jo said someone had stolen her glasses,

Battie had an idea.

Battie had a really stupid idea.

Have you tried the lost-and-found box?

Oh, yeah! We should go look in the lost-and-found box!

I just lost them, right here.

How could they already be in the lost-and-found box?

Maybe someone picked them up while you were splashing your face.

I would have seen them. But you need your glasses to see.

Tamara had just used my own argument to convince me,

so I said, 'Fine, I'll go to the lost-and-found box.'

Agh!

Did I mention that I'd lost my glasses?

Guys, you have to help me.

I don't know where the lost-and-found box is.

She didn't know where it was,

not because she didn't have any glasses -

because she had never been to the lost-and-found box before.

She had never been to the lost-and-found box.

She'd never been to the lost-and-found box?

My mum makes me go there every day to find what I lost the day before.

Rory! I asked you to fold the tennis nets!

Sorry, Mr Haliotis.

Rory! So help me!

Here we are.

I can't see a box. I can only see a big... mountain.

That mountain is the lost-and-found box.

People have lost all those things?

How?

You take something to school,

you leave it there, you go home.

But it can work both ways.

You could take stuff from school home,

like a soccer...

Nothing.

But it's the lost-and-FOUND box.

Why isn't any of this found?

It is found. In the playground, and then brought here.

Are my glasses there?

Uh...

Hey, there's my hat!

And here's my drink bottle!

And here's my dinosaur diorama!

Battie spent ages on his dinosaur diorama,

and he didn't even care that he'd lost it.

It's not that I didn't care. I didn't know.

My dad says I lose things because I get easily distract...

Hey, here's my pencil case!

Tamara, is this your jumper?

They were pulling out bathers and shoes and sunscreen!

Books, bags, hats, bears,

shorts, socks, dolls, hairclips, singlets, skirts,

footballs, combs, cricket bats and lunch boxes.

So... many... lunch boxes.

I lost my lunch box this year.

32 times.

I think it's Mrs Gonsha's fault for making us bring nude food to school.

That's food without wrapping, get it?

So it's like nude in your lunch box.

But it's really hard to remember

to pick up your lunch box when you're finished.

Rory!

I told Mrs Gonsha I wanted to go back to plastic wrap.

No-one cares if you lose your plastic wrap.

Mrs Gonsha said, 'Really, Rory!'

Let's see if you care after you've picked rubbish up for a week.

She was right. I cared.

So it was easier to lose my lunch box.

Is my lunch box there?

Here you go. And here are your footy boots.

Is this your cap? I think this is your sleeping bag.

This is definitely your T-shirt.

Sometimes we call it the lost-and-found box

and sometimes we call it Rory's bedroom.

And here's your magic rubber ball.

And here's your pirate costume from the play.

How can you possibly lose this?

I thought your mum made you come in every day.

I must have missed a couple of days.

I can understand that Rory loses everything.

Hey!

There's my undies!

Because he's Rory. But everyone else had lost things too.

Just like you had lost your glasses.

How about I say what happened

and you say, 'I can't talk right now, I'm busy pumping up the balls'?

Rory, stop being so disgusting and help us.

Debra-Jo lost her glasses.

No, I didn't! Someone stole them.

You look weird without them.

Can you see? Are you blind?

How many fingers am I holding up?

Seven.

Guys, she thinks this is seven fingers.

We really need to find her glasses.

I understood how Debra-Jo felt

and how Mr Haliotis feels losing his soccer balls.

The worst thing I lost was my dad's binoculars.

He said, 'You can take them to school,

but you have to be really careful

because you know how angry I'll be if you lose them.'

I said, 'Yes, I know.'

Bwark! Bwark! Bwark! Bwark!

But I actually didn't know how angry he'd be.

The worst thing I ever lost was my brand-new tennis racquet.

I told Mum I could not do tennis lessons anymore

without my own special tennis racquet.

So she went and bought me my own special tennis racquet and...

I lost it.

Mum said I was right - I could not do tennis lessons anymore.

The worst thing I ever lost was...

Your hanky? No, not my hanky,

because I don't need to have it with me all the time.

And if I lost it for a little while,

say, it got stuck down the side of a couch

during an episode of a cooking show,

I certainly wouldn't care

and I certainly wouldn't cry for two hours.

The worst thing I ever lost was my pet rock.

His name was Barry and he slept in my pocket.

But he was a bit spiky and made a hole and fell out.

Can't you just find another rock?

Can't you just find another hanky?

It didn't feel like they'd lost important things they cared about.

It didn't feel like they understood how I cared about my glasses.

Found them!

Found them!

Found them!

That's not funny!

My glasses are precious and expensive!

I'm not like you!

I don't have things that I just lose and don't care about!

Nobody wants to lose anything.

Do you think I wanted to lose my dad's binoculars?

Do you think Battie wanted to lose his diorama?

Do you think Rory wanted to lose his undies?

OK, that's probably not a good example.

The point is, not everyone's perfect like you, Debra-Jo.

Debra-Jo has her bookshelf in alphabetical order.

She labels her craft containers and never mixes them up.

She arranges her socks from fattest to thinnest.

And she never loses a sock.

She never loses a sock?

Why isn't Debra-Jo in charge of the sports cupboard?

Debra-Jo never loses anything.

Once I asked her if I could borrow her glue stick

and she wrote my name down in a borrowing book.

She's not a girl.

She's a library.

I don't think I'm perfect, Atticus.

All the time.

I want my glasses!

Debra-Jo! It's alright. Look.

Mrs Gonsha! You found them! Did you catch the thief?

What thief? They were in your lunch box on the bench in the playground.

Looks as though you lost your lunch box as well as your glasses.

It's not like you to leave your things out in the playground.

Then I remembered.

I put my glasses in my lunch box before I went to wash my face,

so they would be safe.

They were in her lunch box the whole time.

Pretty sure I already said that.

You need to be very careful with your glasses, Debra-Jo.

They're precious and very expensive.

Anyway, I found them.

So... that's the end of the story.

Can't you just admit that you lost them?

For about a billionth of a second, Atticus.

Actually, it was for most of little lunch...

OK! I forgot!

I made a mistake!

I lost my glasses! Are you happy?

I'm super happy you forgot.

My dad's binoculars!

My brand-new tennis racquet!

My pet rock Barry!

Debra-Jo! Here's your glue stick I borrowed.

You gave me back my glue stick. No, I lost yours.

I gave you Battie's.

If you hadn't lost your glasses,

none of us would have found all our precious things.

Debra-Jo! Atticus! Unless you've found my soccer balls,

less talking and more pumping, please.

Wish we knew where they were.

Hey, where are you guys going?

Did Mr Haliotis say you could finish?

Look! Yes!

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven...

And there's only two missing!

I only took one.

OK, I took two.

♪ Uh-huh

♪ Uh-huh

♪ Hey, whatcha doing?

♪ Everybody's moving Hey, whatcha doing?

♪ Little Lunch! ♪

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