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Future Leaders · ages 9-10Focus & Perseverance · with Mika
The Lantern Climb
30 playful missions to help your child practise sticking with a task and finishing manageable challenges. Relight the lamps up Lantern Peaks so the summit beacon can guide travellers over the pass, with Mika as their guide.
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Your choice: The Lantern Climb · Future Leaders (ages 9-10) · printable PDF + online adventure
This edition is still being written, illustrated and tested. We only sell an edition once all 30 missions are finished in both formats.
Also part of Choose Any 3 ($74.99) and the Complete Collection ($184.99), each for one age level.
The story
The goal: Relight the lamps up Lantern Peaks so the summit beacon can guide travellers over the pass.
Your child’s part: Your child breaks a big climb into small steps, parks distractions and comes back to the task. Each stretch they finish relights the path, until the beacon shines and the villages beyond the pass can be reached before winter.
Focus and perseverance are about staying with something a little longer, noticing distractions and feeling proud of finishing a manageable challenge.
Why parents might choose it
- Activities get abandoned halfway through
- Distractions pull them away easily
- You want to build patience with harder tasks
Just gentle ideas to help you choose.
The Lantern Climb
Here’s what a mission looks like
The story goal: Relight the lamps up Lantern Peaks so the summit beacon can guide travellers over the pass.
Mission 1 · Quiet Trail
Ages 9-10 · Future Leaders
Mika's Flicker
Mika says: “I wrote down butterfly four times. Then I got distracted by how many times I'd written butterfly.”Mika
- About 15 to 20 min
- Reads the story themselves
- Self-directed, parent checks in
- Hidden things
The first stretch of Quiet Trail is two hundred metres of pine trees, stone statues and one bell on a wooden post. Mika walked it last night with Ada's survey sheet and her brass lamp. The lamp flickered eleven times.
Ada doesn't want to know that it flickered. She wants to know why. Every flicker has a cause, and an apprentice's first job is to log the causes, rank them and decide which ones matter before the post carriers start crossing at night.
First, a choice: 4 options
- Hardest to ignore: the butterfly
- Hardest to ignore: the worry about the deadline
- Hardest to ignore: the marmot whistle from the ridge
- Hardest to ignore: cold paws
On the printed page: Circle the distractions in the scene, then number your top five.
By the end they have: Ranked distraction list; Attention check added to the toolbox.
You will need: The trail scene on this page · A pencil · Any book for the two-minute test
- Search the trail scene and circle every distraction you can find. There are at least eight, and three of them aren't objects.
- Sort what you found into three kinds: things you see, sounds, and things inside (thoughts and body).
- Rank your top five from hardest to easiest to ignore. Your ranking can differ from anyone else's; that's the point of asking you.
- Learn the first tool, Attention check: notice the flicker, name the pull in one word, come back to the task.
- Test it: read any book for two minutes and make a small mark each time you notice your attention leave. Marks are information, not mistakes.
Smaller step if needed: Find five distractions and rank only the top three.
The grown-up’s part: Let your child's ranking stand, even if it surprises you. If you share a distraction of your own, keep it light and true.
During one homework or reading session this week, keep a tally of what pulls your attention away, then circle the pull that won most often.
What it practises: Practise noticing when attention wanders and naming what pulled it, including sounds, thoughts and body signals, then ranking the pulls.
Word for word from Mission 1 of the draft The Lantern Climb for ages 9-10. The edition is not yet approved, so wording may change, and the mission’s own illustrations are still to come.
The five-chapter journey
Five places in Lantern Peaks. Thirty missions. Five stars to collect.
Six missions in each chapter. Finishing a chapter lights up a new star on the map, on paper and on screen.
- Quiet Trail · missions 1 to 6
- Steady Steps · missions 7 to 12
- Puzzle Pass · missions 13 to 18
- Long Climb · missions 19 to 24
- Lantern Summit · missions 25 to 30
Activities in this adventure
Puzzles, Memory game, Craft, Movement, Reflection.
At ages 9-10 (Future Leaders)
Planning, reflection, social scenarios, goal setting, independent online play. About 15-25 min (a few up to 30) per mission. Independent reading. Grown-up role: self-directed, parent checks in.
What’s included
One adventure, two ways to play.
The printable PDF
- Adventure introduction and character pages
- All five chapters and 30 missions, fully illustrated
- Puzzles to circle, match, draw and colour
- Grown-up guidance and answer notes
- Progress map with stars to colour
- Reward stickers to cut out
- Completion certificate
The online adventure
- The same 30 missions as interactive games
- Tap, drag, reveal and choose instead of writing
- Character reactions and completion animations
- Digital stars, badges and a final certificate
- Carry on where you stopped, on any device
- Works on phones, tablets and computers
- Tap alternatives to every drag-and-drop
Paper and screen
Every activity works both ways.
The same mission plays on paper or on screen with the same answer. This is how each activity type changes between the two formats.
| Activity | In the PDF | Online |
|---|---|---|
| Story choice | Circle an answer | Tap an answer |
| Secret code | Draw the symbols | Tap symbols into a lock |
| Matching | Draw lines | Drag or tap pairs |
| Ordering | Number the pictures | Drag or tap into order |
| Hidden things | Colour what you find | Tap the scene |
| Feelings | Colour a face | Tap a face |
| Drawing | Draw in the frame | Draw on screen |
| Real world | Tick the box | Tap “We tried it!” |
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