A Sanguine Brainstorm

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Richard Wagner

Geography:
grew up in germany.

Bible/Character:
would borrow $ from people and be angry that folks would expect a "genius" to pay it back.


Drama/Music:
he composed Ride of the Valkyries. the opera with the 9 sisters with the horned hats who rode on horses that rescued fallen heros. get kids to act this out while music is playing.

Friday, August 1, 2008

Chapter 1

Map it out

The family left Switzerland to establish a colony on a island near New Guinea...ended up somewhere in south pacific...

History

Establishing a colony in the 1800s.
Nautical - identify an 1800s ship - define masts, driven off course, deck, change of tide, rafts, planks, current

Scripture Memory/Bible/Character

"You mustn't be afraid," I said to my four sons....who clung to me trembling. "God will save us for nothing is impossible to Him."

He is the God who does the impossible. Study the story of Him calming the storm. Tell story of "It is Well." Learn and study the song, and history.

"My wife, Elizabeth, wiped away her tears and reassured our sons that we would survive this crisis. I admired her courage, but my heart was heavy as I led my family in prayer."

Waiting, evaluating the circumstance in a crisis. Sailors and crew panicked and abandoned the family.

"Elizabeth and I, fearing that each strange sound might spell disaster, kept a prayerful watch throughout the long night."

"Elizabeth and I gathered our family around us and thanked God for a peaceful landing. Our hearts were full of joy."

***even though the crew had abandoned them...they still continued to try to find them..**

Definitions

Courage, crisis, terrified, disaster, consolation, solemn, accomplishment, cautiously, salvaged, provisions, construct

Zoology

dogs (good for hunting), cow, mule, goats, sheep, pig, hens, roosters, pigeons, geese, ducks, penguins, flamingos, lobster, oyster bed

Science

Bouyancy -

Surviving/being practical - making life jackets with wooden butter tubs... making boats out of 8 tubs.

(make a boat out of playdoh and see how many pennies it will hold. Father had to use enough tubs to carry people..if he didn't use enough it wouldn't carry everyone/anyone...do sink/float....science experiment about boyancy....give the kids some aluminum foil and a tub of water...if you crumple it in a ball it sinks, but if you form it into a boat shape, it floats because of bouyancy. )


*****kudos to my friend emily who gave the idea for bouyancy********




Tuesday, July 22, 2008

SFR copy words and definitions

Chapter 1

Masts (ship)
Disaster
Consolation
Provisions
Courage
Construct


Chapter 2

Dawn
Investigate
Azure-blue
Shallow
Infuriated
Tussle
Orphaned
Gleefully
Turnspit
Rudder
Voyage

Chapter 3

Wounded
Gently
Protested
Treacherous
Harnassed
Deliberation
Permanently
Monstrous
Extraordinary
Intrigued

Chapter 4

Pursuit
Strenuously
Sinister
Scheme
Nimblest
Pulley
Horizontal
Devoured
Remarkable

Chapter 5

Discovered
Magnifiscent
Accommodate
Harpoon
Telescope
Mercifully
Muzzle
Provisions
Deck
Masts
Sails
Cannon

Chapter 6

Astonishment
Cautiously
Undulated
Delicacy
Abandon
Expedition
Interior
Ammunition
Gallop
Stampede

Chapter 7

Observe
Acquiring
Accomplishment
Magnifiscent
Submissive
Motionless
Retorted
Menacingly
Scheme
Prosperity
Leisurely
Noose

Chapter 8

Species
Tedious
Consent
Exhausted
Incredible
Swiftness
Ravages
Monotonous
Grotto
Livestock

Chapter 9

Trudged
Thoroughbred
Bridle
Support

Chapter 10

Bewildered
Buoyed
Marsh
Expedition
Scheme
Botany
Voyages
Barricaded
Fodder
Horror

Chapter 11

Enormous
Trench
Halt
Refuge
Bedouins
Spyglass
Cavaliers
Mirage


Chapter 12

Courage
Teamwork
Tedious
Muzzled
Lassoed

Chapter 13

Transport
Merit
Construction
Protection

Chapter 14

Frantically
Gritty
Valuable
Mysterious
Rescue

Chapter 15

Disappear
Destination
Devour
Opportunity
Solemnly
Epitaph
Inflicted
Luxurious
Savage
Plucky
Anxious

Chapter 16

Farewell
Tenderness
Kindness
Acquainted
Mumured
Lingered
Mischievously
Masthead
Sentinels
Cargo

Thursday, July 17, 2008

swiss family robinson

Chapter 1

Geography - Switzerland, Pacific Ocean, new Guinea
Spiritual - father leading them in prayer during storm
Survival - small wooden butter tubs for life jackets, raft made out of 8 tubs
Animals - penguins, flamingos, agouti (native pig), lobster

Chapter 2

Botany - sugar cane
Survival - making plates, bowls and spoons from gourds; pole with sail and gunfire for emergency
Animals - monkey, shark
Ship - sail and rudder definitions

Chapter 3

Courage - Fritz with shark
Survival - turtle eggs, tree house, bridge building, fruit, ladder building

Chapter 4

Animals - flamingos, kangroo
Math - ladder construction
Family - working together, giving names for home and parts of island (maybe a geography lesson too? give names to parts of our yard?)
Spiritual - Providence Bay "in gratitude to God for delivering us safely)

Chapter 5

History - kangaroos, Captain Cook first discovered them (geography - austrailia)
Botany - European Fruit (pear, plum, peach, apple, apricot, chestnut)
Survival - fishing net, ship compass, two harpoons, telescope, hatchet
Animals - tortoise
Ship - mass, billowing sails, cannons, naming ship

Chapter 6

Survival - gardening, irrigation system, coops for birds made from gourds to tie in trees, making hives for bees
Animals - Iguana, father not wanting to be cruel to iguana, mule, buffaloe
Botany - guava tree, candleberry tree ("whose heavy berries form candle wax when boiled), Indian Rubber tree (milky sap to make boots and shoes), cocoa beans

Chapter 7

Survival - double barreled gun, mother weaving cloth from flax plants
Animal - buffulo (string in nose), malabar eagle, animal training (Carib Indian trick - smoke), baby animals (hens - 40 chicks, pigs - 7 piglets, goats-2 kids, sheep - 5 lambs, dog - 6 puppies), Onagra - wild donkey from Asia (geography!)

Chapter 8

Weather - winter rain
Tools - pick axes, chisels, hammers, iron levers, wheelbarrow
The Winter home - Grotto, salt mine, cavern

Chapter 9

Cotton!!
Spiritual - "Holiday to celebrate all the adventures we have had and how good God has been to us."
Character - competition - all were good at something, father noticing and giving special awards, special love and tenderness towars mother/wife
Quick Sand!!

Chapter 10,11

Jack's promis to mother - mother's love for son
Survival - babmboo for light in grotto
Geography - Malaysia
Animal - boa constrictor, eel, ostrich, bears
Survival - made a trench too roast pig
Grizzle - didn't listen, ran into marsh, snake attacked
Geography - desert, mirage

Chapter 12

Courage - Fritz shooting bear
Animals - Angora rabbit, antelope, lassoed the ostrich

Chapter 13

Cajack - canoe boat (Greenlanders made them from walrus)
Airtight swimsuit

Chapter 14

Animals - sea gulls, sea lions, elephants, walruses
Pearls!!!

Chapter 15

Spiritual - message to sailor "have faith in God. Help is near."
Animal - lion
Courage - Fritz killing lion
Death - of Flora

Chapter 16

Animals - geese, cormorant
Survival - Emily made a hut
Saying goodbye







Animals - porcupine