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Click on the play button to listen to chapter 1. Remember to follow along in your copy.

Parents/Guardians, discuss the following questions with your child after reading chapter 1.

Why does Pandora choose to become a lighthouse keeper?

Why did she feel it was her purpose/ calling (destiny)?

Answers:

She and her father had almost been in a shipwreck when she was a kitten. When fog covered the ocean, the light from the lighthouse and the foghorn saved their lives.

She always knew that she must save others in the same way.

Art Connection:

What do you think the lighthouse that saved Pandora and her father looked like? Draw a picture of it. You could use paper and pencil, crayons or even sidewalk chalk if you would like!

Click on the play button to listen to chapter 2. Remember to follow along in your copy.

Parents/Guardians, discuss the following questions with your child after reading chapter 2.

Why did Seabold call the sea his friend?

Why did he say it turned against him?

Answers:

He loved sailing  since he was a puppy and when he was old enough he said goodbye to his family and sailed the ocean for five years.

Seabold was in a storm in the sea that ended in a wreck.

Stem Connection:

What do you think Seabold’s boat looks like? Using material you have around you house, create a boat. You could use tin foil, a Styrofoam plate or something else.  See if you can make it float in your bathtub or sink!

Click on the play button to listen to chapter 3. Remember to follow along in your copy.

Parents/Guardians, discuss the following questions with your child after reading chapter 3.

Why does Seabold think he may be dreaming?

Seabold tells Pandora that he never thought he would meet someone who loves the “solitary life” like him. Did Pandora really like the solitary life? How do you know?

Answers:

Seabold was throw into the sea and doesn’t remember being found by Pandora.

Pandora does not actually enjoy the solidary life. In chapter one the author tells us that she has been living alone for “four long years” and that it’s beginning to wear on her (pg. 8). She says that she simply “lives it.” (pg. 29)

Science Connection:

Go for a nature walk and see if you can find any plants or flowers. With your parent’s help, use the internet to see what kind of plant or flower you find. Read about the plant or flower and see if it has any purpose like the plantain leaves that Pandora used to help Seabold’s leg.

Parents/Guardians,

Discuss the following questions with your child after listening to chapter 4.

Throughout this chapter, Pandora begins to see the beauty of having a friend.  How does she feel about a friend?

What are some ways she and Seabold grew closer as friends?

Pandora say that she “felt a small emptiness in her heart.” (pg. 35)  What is the main reason Pandora is sad? How do we know this?

Answers:

When she wakes in the morning she remembers that she’s not alone and that she has someone to talk to. (pg. 32)

They told each other stories of their lives, things they had read or seen, and what they liked best/worst. (pg. 32)

Students should be able to recognize that Pandora has been lonely for a long time and that she is finally realizing the importance of friendship and having someone to share her future with. She feels empty because she is watching Seabold prepare to leave her and she won’t have a friend with her anymore.

Family Time Connection:

Pandora and Seabold had a picnic and watched the sun go down. With your family, have a picnic one evening and watch the sun go down. What colors do you notice in the sky? What other things do you notice as it becomes dark? Discuss the different things you see and hear and it becomes dark.

Discuss the following questions with your child after listening to chapter 5.

The story says that “over the next few hours the wind built to an astonishing speed, its gusts rocked the tower”… it goes on to say that Pandora was undaunted.

What do you think this word means?

 What things does Pandora do that show she is undaunted?

Answers:

Undaunted means being brave and not giving up when things get hard. You are undaunted if keep working even if something is scary or difficult.

Pandora climbed up to the lantern room, lit the wicks, checked the kerosene vessel, cleaned the storm panes and then went to the watch room. (pg. 41)

She worked in the watch room sounding the horn, she had no time to dress, she was cold. (pg. 42)

One hour, two hours, three hours, four… How did Pandora do it? (pg. 45)

Writing Connection:

Write about a  time when you were undaunted?  Practice using your best writing skills. Draw a picture of this time. Using a magnet,  hang your writing and artwork on your refrigerator.

Discuss the following questions with your child after listening to chapter 6.

The author tells us that, “Seabold was a sailing dog… the sea was his home.”

What events happen that show us that “destiny had other plans?”

How is Seabold inspired by Pandora’s life? What does he mean when he says that he wants to “make his life count for something?”

Answers:

Essential pieces of Seabold’s boat need to be handmade and it would take several seasons to complete the task. (pg. 48)

Despite Pandora’s efforts, Seabold’s leg had not healed completely and he has to walk with the aid of a stick.

(pg. 47)

He witnesses her selflessness as she saves the lives of others in order to “serve a purpose higher than herself.” (pg. 49)  He says he wants to be “useful” (pg. 50) and he tells Pandora that he will build a gazebo where they can wait to see what comes their way. (pg. 52) 

Dinner Discussion:

Based on what the text tells us it means to “make your life count for something, discuss over dinner with your child one way you are making your life count for something. This could be through your work or by something you’ve done to help someone else.

Together come up with one way your family can do something to make a positive impact on others.  This doesn’t have to be an extravagant task but could be  as simple as planning to pick up some trash in a local park and committing to not littering.

Discuss the following questions with your child after reading chapter 7.

What makes Seabold decide to take Adventure out on the open

waters again?

How can we tell that Seabold is starting to change from his character in the beginning of the story in chapter 7?

Answers:

Seabold spots a crate on the water with a small flag waving in the wind. Pandora tells him that she has a feeling that there is “life out there.”(pg. 59)

Seabold is starting to think about others more than he thinks about himself.  He says that he must fetch the crate to shore.

“We can stand here and watch that small flag float away and goodness- knows- what tragedy with it, or I can make Adventure float. (pg. 60)

Seabold is going to try and save anyone who is on the boat, even though it may be dangerous to him.

Writing Connection:

Imagine you see something floating at sea. What is it? What does it look like? Draw a picture and use as many adjectives as you can to describe the item you imagine seeing. Then  draw a picture of the item.

With your child, discuss the events that occurred in the whole story and how life changed for each member of the lighthouse family. Discuss how things that seem like bad situations can turn out to be good. Where did this happen in our story? Revisit the essential questions and see how they relate to the story.

Thank you for listening!

Enjoy the rest of your summer!

~ Ms. Cassie

Discuss the following questions with your child after reading chapter 8.

Why is Pandora deeply concerned about Tiny? What is she going to do about it?

Why could the young boy mouse not speak?

Answers:

The children tell her that the baby never sleeps for long and that she isn’t stirring, gurgling, and bubbling like she usually does. Pandora holds Tiny and notices that she has a fever. (pg. 68) Pandora decides to go into the woods and find a special willow branch. (pg. 69)

Whistler could not speak because he was so thirsty from not having fresh water while in the sea.

Imagination Connection:

Create a fort or box of some kind using materials that are around your house. Imagine you are floating at sea. How would you feel? What might you smell or see? Would you be afraid?  Talk with your family members about a time you were uncertain about what could happen just like the little mice probably were while they were floating in the crate.

Discuss the following questions with your child after reading chapter 9.  

How has Pandora’s life changed from the beginning of the story? How did it all happen?

Answer

In the beginning of the story Pandora lived a lonely life, she was “weary” from doing it alone for so long. (pg. 15)  She was a “noble cat who wished to save lives… because Seabold was a brave dog that wished to sail… and because three small children wished for a family.” (pg. 74)

Memory Connection:

In the story, Seabold and Pandora talk about the memories they have made together. What is your favorite memory with your family? Draw a picture of your memory and share it with a member of your family.