The boat adventure

Today Tess and Dad are going on a sailboat. The space spies secretly follow them across the field and along the road. An arrow shows the way to the lake.

Tess and Dad take the sailboat onto the lake. Tess knows how to sail.
“Do you want to sail the boat today Tess?” asks Dad.
“Yes please!” says Tess.

Sam and Pam hire a boat too. Their boat is a rowing boat.
“Seven pounds please. You need these! A life jacket keeps you safe. You’ll float if you fall off the boat.”
“Thank you,” say Sam and Pam.

Sam and Pam sit down on the seat and pull on the oars. The rowing boat goes slowly.
The wind blows. Tess and Dad’s sailing boat quickly speeds away.
“Yeah!” screams Tess.

Sam and Pam’s rowing boat rocks from side to side.
“It’s raining!” Lightning flashes in the sky! Thunder booms. The space spies get a fright. Pam starts to cry.

“Let’s phone for help! Oh no! The spyphone is broken!”
“Where’s the spypad?”
Pam reads out the phone number, “8,3,5,0,2,” and the space spies send a message to the rescue boat.

A few minutes later the rescue boat arrives! Mum and the rescue crew say hi!
“Phew, that’s a relief!”
“Catch!” Mum throws a rope to Sam and Pam and the rescue crew tows the rowing boat to the side of the lake.
“Thank you!”

“Wow! That was an adventure!”
“Let’s go and load the new spelling rule onto the super spy spelling book.”

“I don’t understand the new spelling rule.”
“Well, listen to the sounds ‘a’ ‘e’ ‘i’ ‘o’ ‘u’. For each sound there are different spellings. For example ‘a’ can be written ‘ai’ as in sail, ‘ay’ as in way and ‘a something e’ as in lake,” explains Pam.
“Thanks Pam! Spelling is an adventure too!”

“I don’t like sailing on lakes!”
“I prefer flying in spaceships!”
“But we both love spelling! Goodbye super spellers!”