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Flight!

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Ellie is taking an enrichment class this term and the first 2 lessons were about flight, Amelia Earhart and the Wright Brothers, so we pulled out some flight books to read this week. Amelia Earhart: Courage in the Sky (Women of Our Time) Talkin Bout Bess: The Story of Aviator Bessie Coleman Amelia Who Could Fly This book, a fictionalized story of Amelia Earhart's childhood until her first flight, was available through overdrive: Amelia Earhart: Young Air Pioneer (Young Patriots series Book 1) Ellie and Penny have listened to it multiple times, (they LOVE audio books). Quick pic I snapped while she was "in" class We also found there is an "Air of the Wolf" unit in her Cub Scouts curriculum book so at the den meeting that week, the scouts all folded paper airplanes and learned more about how air works. (no pics of that, sorry) Then a week or so later, by sheer luck or homeschool magic, the Evergreen Air and Space museum hosted a ho