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Cloudtop Isles · 30 missionsThe Independence Flight
Brave Thinkers · ages 7-8Independence · with Sky
The Independence Flight
30 playful missions to help your child practise taking initiative and making their own age-appropriate choices. Gather the drifting clouds so the Cloudtop Isles draw close together again, with Sky as their guide.
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Your choice: The Independence Flight · Brave Thinkers (ages 7-8) · 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: Gather the drifting clouds so the Cloudtop Isles draw close together again.
Your child’s part: Your child plans, chooses and has a go at jobs on their own, and decides when to ask for help. Each job they take on gathers a cloud, until the isles draw close and Sky can fly solo at the air show.
Independence is doing things for yourself and making choices that fit your age, from packing a bag to planning an afternoon.
Why parents might choose it
- You find yourself doing tasks they could manage
- They wait to be told what to do next
- You want them ready for more responsibility
Just gentle ideas to help you choose.
The Independence Flight
Here’s what a mission looks like
The story goal: Gather the drifting clouds so the Cloudtop Isles draw close together again.
Mission 1 · Nest Steps
Ages 7-8 · Brave Thinkers
Can, Help, Not Yet
Sky says: “Not yet sounds like losing. I don't want a not-yet nest.”Sky
- About 15 to 20 min
- Reads the story themselves
- Parent nearby, child leads
- Sorting
Sky's Definitely Myself list is pinned to the peg rail. It is four pages long. Item one says Pour my own drink. Item forty-three says Fix the bridge to the far isle, by Thursday.
Yara the yak leans over the ledge and reads the whole thing without a word. Then she sets down three empty nests woven from twigs.
'Can, with help, not yet,' she says. 'Sort it. Be honest. The isles don't need you to do everything. They need you to know what you can do.'
First, a choice: 4 options
- Sort Pour my own drink first
- Sort Fly the whole Solo Route first
- Sort Tie my scarf so it stays tied first
- Sort Bake bread for the whole market first
On the printed page: Sort the cards into three nests, or write each task inside a nest on the page.
By the end they have: Three task nests sorted, with a helper named on each with-help card; first tool, can, help, not yet.
You will need: The task card sheet (or paper cut into twelve cards) · Three bowls, hats or drawn circles · A pencil
- Put out three nests: bowls, hats, or three circles drawn on paper.
- Sort Sky's eight task cards into can, with help and not yet. Talk each one over with Sky; there's no wrong nest.
- Write four tasks of your own on the blank cards: things from home, school or a club.
- Sort your own cards, and on every with-help card write who could help you.
- Choose one with-help card to practise this week and put it somewhere you'll see it.
Smaller step if needed: Sort only your own four cards, or sort two of Sky's and two of yours.
The grown-up’s part: Let your child put tasks in whichever nest they choose. If you disagree, ask what makes them think so, then let the card stay where they put it.
This week, ask the person on your chosen with-help card to coach you through that task once, then decide if the card can move nests.
What it practises: Practise sorting real tasks into can do alone, can do with help, and not yet, and naming who could help with each.
Word for word from Mission 1 of the draft The Independence Flight for ages 7-8. 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 Cloudtop Isles. 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.
- Nest Steps · missions 1 to 6
- My-Choice Market · missions 7 to 12
- Wind Path · missions 13 to 18
- Builder’s Bay · missions 19 to 24
- Open Skies · missions 25 to 30
Activities in this adventure
Real-world challenge, Story choices, Puzzles, Treasure hunt, Craft.
At ages 7-8 (Brave Thinkers)
Multi-step games, mysteries, problem-solving, short writing, real-world challenges. About 10-20 min (a few up to 25) per mission. Short reading and writing. Grown-up role: parent nearby, child leads.
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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