Rm 6 Adventure on the Island of ‘Shake It’

The Island of 'Shake It' has dangerous rocks surrounding it. When the pirate children escaped from their sinking ship they had to wriggle and shake their bodies through rocks in the water until eventually they made it to the shore. Once they got out of the water they were amazed to find no beach, just steep cliffs, trees and bushes, rocks and more rocks. 

On shore, the children clambered over big rocks and little rocks looking for the safest place on the island. Their Shake It instruments sounded loud and jolty climbing over big rocks and soft and even walking on the little stones.

Then they noticed a house at the top of a big cliff. But how could they survive the journey up there? The way up was very dangerous and steep.

They made a ladder by tying their life jackets to their tambourines and got their best climbers to tie the ladder to strong branches and tree roots.

 The children successfully climbed up the cliff using their tambourine ladder.

They found that a hairy old man lived in the house on the hill.

The Hairy old man had been living alone on the island since World War 2. He was almost at the end of his war-time supplies of canned food which were getting a bit rusty. His only chance of calling for help was an old morse code radio transmitter.

It had instructions but he didn’t know what the dots and dashes meant. So he was stranded on the Island.

The clever pirate children worked out that a dot means make a short sound and a dash means make a long sound.

The children played the short and long code patterns to the Hairy Old Man on their instruments.

They helped the old man do an SOS pattern, which was eventually picked up by a coast guard, who rescued everybody!