Flight!

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 homeschool day while The Paper Airplane Guy was there and we got to learn how to fold the record breaking (for length of flight) paper airplane.
This Conan appearance shows how awesome he is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2dUM0qjhy4

And this is his book:
The New World Champion Paper Airplane Book: Featuring the World Record-Breaking Design, with Tear-Out Planes to Fold and Fly


and take a "behind the ropes" tour of the museum


The Evergreen Space Museum houses the Spruce Goose plane so we watched: this Yogi Bear special just for fun:
Yogi Bear and the Magical Flight of the Spruce Goose

and for my own enjoyment, hubby and I watched:
The Aviator
The Aviator
(which is about Howard Hughes, including his inventing the Spruce Goose)

I love it when we can garner experience and education from multiple sources to build on an interest.


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