November 2: C4! class prep

 This month we are focusing on CREATING:

-CREATING in our lives

-CREATING things that inspire

-CREATING things that bless

This week we will look at what creating is and how we can starting applying a more creative outlook at our lives and the world around us!

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1. What does it mean to "create"?

    MAKE A WORD STUDY!

        a. pick your favorite 1828 Webster dictionary definition and write it down:  

CREATE, verb transitive [Latin]

1. To produce; to bring into being from nothing; to cause to exist.

In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. Genesis 1:1.

2. To make or form, by investing with a new character; as, to create one a peer or baron; to create a manor.

I create you companions to our person.

3. To produce; to cause; to be the occasion of.

Your eye in Scotland would create soldiers, and make women fight.

Long abstinence creates uneasiness in the stomach; confusion is created by hurry.

4. To beget; to generate; to bring forth.

The people which shall be created, shall praise the Lord. Psalms 102:18.

5. To make or produce, by new combinations of matter already created, and by investing these combinations with new forms, constitutions and qualities; to shape and organize.

God created man in his own image. Genesis 1:1.

6. To form anew; to change the state or character; to renew.

CREATE in me a clean heart. Psalms 51:10.

We are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus. Ephesians 2:10.

        b. pick two or more scriptures or quotes that include the word "create."

    c. re-write the definition in your own words.

    d. create an action sentence of how you will create!

    e. bring it to class to share

“The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.”

--DaVinci

2. Leonardo DaVinci was one of the most creative people of all time...he wrote, painted, designed, and built throughout his entire life!  

    a. Learn more about him and bring one fact to share

    b. create something and share it with us: recipe, invention, origami,...anything!

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3. READ pages 84-91 in HABIT 2 in "7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens and create a mission statement! Please consider bringing it to share :D.

(Here's a link for a video that covers the idea of missions, but the pages in the book help you actually write it out better :D: link for Habits video)

3. READ Habit 3 or watch this video: link for video

October 12: C4! class prep

  This month we are focusing on BEING BUILDERS:

-Building ourselves

-Building those around us

-Building things that inspire

-Building the world

AND THIS WEEK WE'RE LOOKING AT BUILDING THROUGH THE ARTS!

Here's what I need from you to get ready for next week!  
We have a couple core and crust projects to work on...

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1. ART: People build some crazy things to awe and inspire...

2. Personal project:

    learn how: 

Make your own and come and share!

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3. POETRY: Read this poem and come with your favorite line to share for an activity.

The Bridge Builder

BY WILL ALLEN DROMGOOLE

An old man going a lone highway,

Came, at the evening cold and gray,

To a chasm vast and deep and wide.

Through which was flowing a sullen tide

The old man crossed in the twilight dim,

The sullen stream had no fear for him;

But he turned when safe on the other side

And built a bridge to span the tide.

“Old man,” said a fellow pilgrim near,

“You are wasting your strength with building here;

Your journey will end with the ending day,

You never again will pass this way;

You’ve crossed the chasm, deep and wide,

Why build this bridge at evening tide?”

The builder lifted his old gray head;

“Good friend, in the path I have come,” he said,

“There followed after me to-day

A youth whose feet must pass this way.

This chasm that has been as naught to me

To that fair-haired youth may a pitfall be;

He, too, must cross in the twilight dim;

Good friend, I am building this bridge for him!

4. Finish reading "Charlie's Monument" and
    a- bring a rock that represents ONE thing you want to be remembered for
    b- bring one question or quote from the book. (Not "what did you like/not like about this book, lol!  Something specific!)

October 5: C4! Class prep

 This month we are focusing on BEING BUILDERS:

-Building ourselves

-Building those around us

-Building things that inspire

-Building the world

AND THIS WEEK WE'RE LOOKING AT BUILDING GEOGRAPHICALLY AND HISTORICALLY!

Here's what I need from you to get ready for next week!  
We have a couple core and crust projects to work on...

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1. Geographically: There are SO many cool buildings around the world!

    a-brainstorm how many buildings come to mind with your family without using any other resources besides your brains.  Bring your total list to class for a contest!

     b-once you're done with your list, pick a building a recreate it using food, toys, yourself...whatever you come up with!

2. Historically: People have built many things: civilizations, buildings, traditions, trade routes, armies, organizations, etc.  

    a-pick something "built" historically (like those mentioned above) and report to us on it! Feel free to answer the following questions:

    -who built it?

    -why?

    -what impact did it have?

    -how long did it last?

    -what were its strengths and weaknesses?

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4. Think about the building you chose above for current buildings.  What does that building represent?  Why is it famous?

5. Think about the historical things that were built you studied.  What can you learn from it that you can apply to your life?  Be prepared to come and share!