FIAR - The Glorious Flight

Our next FIAR literature selection was The Glorious Flight by Alice and Martin Provensen. It is a great book that teaches determination through the flight across the English Channel by Louis Bleriot in 1909. Louis was determined to fly and continued working on his aircraft until he could fly!

We learned about the different parts of a plane. We read a million books about flight (it felt like a million).

We learned how to fold a paper airplane and then tested to see if it would fly and how far it would fly.

Kaleb loved his plane. He flew it outside all afternoon.

We worked on some simple addition problems using a plane mat and Lego people. He added the people who flew on the plane. He couldn't believe that he was using Lego people for Math!

His most favorite activity, though, was the Lego airplane that I found at a consignment sale. I have had this in my closet for a month, just waiting for this book. Kaleb is a Lego fanatic! He was thrilled.

He didn't waste any time putting it together. It was missing two simple parts but we have so many Legos that it was possible to find a replacement.

He is working on a plane dot-to-dot. But you can see another Lego plane that he made for this story. He found a manual in the set of legos that my friend gave us and he built the plane all by himself. He certainly enjoyed learning about planes! Our next book will be Cranberry Thanksgiving in honor of the up-coming holiday. See you soon.

Links

I Craft Gifts - has a popsicle stick airplane craft that looks pretty easy.

Crayola - has a really neat airplane craft that looks somewhat difficult for my child but may be good for another.

Meaningful Mama - has lessons on perseverance.

Growing Firsties - has a perseverance free printable.

Kids of Integrity - has another lesson on perseverance.

Character First Education - has a lesson on determination.