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From YouTube: Sam's Sad Day

Description

Sam is a sand lizard who lives on the heathlands of Dorset. One day something sad happens to Sam and his friends.

Sam's Sad Day is part of Sam's Pack, an educational resource
provided free of charge to schools in south east Dorset by the Urban Heaths LIFE Project.

The Urban Heaths LIFE Project is co-funded by the
EU LIFE-nature fund and is an initiative of the Urban Heaths
Partnership to help protect Dorset's Natura 2000 heathlands.

Illustrations by Tim Oliver
Original story by Tess Cross

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I'm going to read you a story about sam's sad day. This is sam, he's a sand. Lizard sam is not very big. He would fit into the palm of your hand. He has four legs and a tail and is brown on top and has bright green sides.

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Sam lives on the heathland, the heathland has many different plants growing on it. Sam's favorite one is the purple heather.

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One day last summer, sam was sitting in his favorite place. His favorite place is a small sandy patch by the edge of the plants. Here the sun shines down and keeps the sand warm.

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Sam was sitting in the sun dreaming of a nice tasty snack when bob the butterfly fluttered down and landed next to him, hi sam, he said, have you heard nancy knight, jar's eggs have hatched one girl and one boy, wow said sam. That is wonderful, but bob had fluttered off. He never stayed anywhere long.

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ah With a sigh sam sat down to carry on with streaming.

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Sam someone was calling him sam looked around. Who was there sam sammed the voice called again some looked around, but he couldn't see anyone. Suddenly, he saw something rustling through the heather towards him. What was it hello, sam said? Andy, the adder. Did I make you jump some felt silly. I couldn't see you, he said. That's because I'm the same color as the plants andy explained.

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Andy told sam, he had come to see him after escaping from some children who were scaring him. They kept trying to pick me up said andy. I was so very scared, don't they know I could bite them. I feel much safer here. Sam told andy. He could stay as long as he wanted to.

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After a rest, andy slithered away in search of some food sam, went back to sleep.

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Suddenly he was woken by a loud cry: quick danger, quick help, quick, quick help danger.

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Sam looked around sitting on top of a gorse bush was dany, the dartford warbler, dany was hopping up and down and shouting as loudly as she could dany called sam. What is the batter.

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Fire cried danny. The heath is on fire, get away, get everyone away. Sam looked across the heath in the distance, he could see thick black smoke in the sky under the smoke were red scary. Flames help get everyone out called sam, tell them to go to where andy the ada lives.

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Danny flew around the heath calling to everyone through the smoke sam ran around the ground, telling everyone he could find. It was very hot and scary. The smoke was making it very hard to breathe and the flames were getting closer.

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Crackle crackle his scraggle, the noise was very scary and so loud when dany and sam were sure they had got everyone off to safety. They too set off to andy's place.

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Sam looked back, there were firefighters everywhere, pouring water on the fire and beating the flames with special tools. Big red trucks kept arriving sam hoped no one would get hurt the next day sam returned home, but there was no home to return to.

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The heather had all gone. His sandy spot was covered in smelly, black ash nancy's nest had gone, there were no flowers for bob to visit, and no bushes for danny to sing from sam was very sad everywhere. He looked was black. Some went back to the others feeling very, very sad indeed,.

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Andy said everybody could stay with him, it was crowded, but at least it was a patch of heathland.

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Everyone hoped that there would be no more.

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