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We love this book! I mean it. It’s funny yet full of lessons from history. It teaches the reader of never giving up, of persistence and following dreams. And did you know that this book is based on a true story of Louis Bleriot, the first person to fly an airplane in the English Channel.
This is one book that I highly recommend reading when studying airplanes! And you get to study history as well :)
Geography
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Now the setting of the story is in France. So we spot France in our Montessori Europe Puzzle Map and identify the English Channel where Louis Bleriot flew.
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in addition, we check out landforms as well, as Mavi was asking me “Mommy, what is a channel?”
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Since it is in France, Mavi made the flag of France. I was surprise he still remembers the colours.
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And of course, the exciting part was creating the English Channel using our coloured rice, Europe Pin Flags and Learning Resources Transportation counters.
Math
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The book was using Roman Numerals so we made Roman Numerals for each Montessori Number Cards. This was a huge hit! I even learned from this… the Roman Numerals of thousands!
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Science
We studied Airplanes! Here are the books we used:
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They were all helpful! The only thing that we didn’t do was to have an experiment on flying. Oh well, maybe next time.
Interested in learning the different parts of an airplane? I have FREE 3-part cards for you!
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Mavi loves to read and match the parts. I have yet to create definition booklet for this. But Mavi knew all the functions of each parts by heart so he was discussing it to me while doing the work.
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History
We created a timeline for the airplane. Starting from the discovery of the Wright brothers up to the very present of airliners (this was Mavi’s idea).
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And that’s about it! We have a fruitful week for this! I didn’t know that rowing FIAR books could be this exciting and fun!
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I love this lesson! Lots of great ideas!
ReplyDeleteThis is one of my son's favorite books! Great activities! I can't wait to try it with him.
ReplyDeleteHello! I am new to your site (I found you via pinterest) and would love to print the airplane cards for our row next week of Glorious Flight. Can you tell me where they are? I can't find them on your site, the PDF store or a link within this post. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteSorry about that. Here's the post that will lead you to the link.
Deletehttp://www.pinayhomeschooler.com/2015/04/free-airplane-nomenclature-cards.html
Thank you!
Do you happen to have the timeline points in printable form?
ReplyDeleteHi! Sorry, I didn't produce a printable for that
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