This week in our Homeschooling class we will be using the resources for Five In A Row. Including the Unit Study for The Glorious Flight. Charlie is love studying about Flying using the The Glorious Flight. Charlie is able to learn about airplanes and the history of flying.
Illustrator: Alice and Martin Provenson
The Glorious Flight tells the story of Louis Bleriot who, with great persistence and passion, built a flying machine to become one of the first to fly across a large body of water, the English Channel.
Before we begin our Lessons I would like to ask you to take the time to read The Glorious Flight with your students.
Social Studies: Family Relations
Ask you student, “What can you tell me about Papa Blegriot’s (BlAIR-yo) family?
What kind of things did they do as a family?
Give your student a piece of Manila Art Paper or Construction paper and have them divide the paper in half have them draw something they do with there family on one side, on the other side draw thing’s Papa Blegriots’ family does.
If you plan on using Five In A Row for your Classroom I would suggest you purchase Five In A Row which offers Social Study Lessons. In the meantime I thought I would share what we are doing in our classroom.
Experiment: Rising Paper
The paper is supposed to rise when you blow across the top because “the air beneath pushes harder than the fast moving the air above.”
Make a paper airplane and see how fly it flies.
Geography
Discuss with your students what a channel of water is: which is a narrow body of water joining two larger bodies of water. Then we identified several on the map.
Have them draw a Channel they would like to visit.
Look up France and England Maps and have them create the maps for there classroom.
Math: Roman Numerals
Charlie doesn’t know Roman Numerals so we spent time learning how to read and write them and we discussed Papa Bleriot’s machines’ names.
I had Charlie practice writing out the Planes names then I gave Charlie a test on what he learned on Friday.
As you go grocery shopping this week do not forget to pick up Snacks to serve during the lessons your leaning. Five In A Row has a cookbook which offers recipes to go with the lesson plans you will be working on.
In France people buy bread fresh each day. Even the smallest town has its own bakery, called a boulangerie (pronounced: boo lon zhur EE) Note of interest: This tradition of buying or making fresh bread each day is what led to the invention of French Toast.
There was a need to use of some of the old bread, so putting the stale pieces of bread in an egg and milk batter, then frying the bread and serving the bread with powdered sugar became the yummy solution.)
Here is a Recipe to make French Bread. If you have some Bread left over you could try and make French Toast.
French Bread
Ingredients:
5 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2 (1/4 oz.) pkgs. active dry yeast
1 1/2 tsp. salt
2 cups very warm water
cornmeal 1 egg white
1 Tbs. water
Prepartion:
In a large mixing bowl, combine 2 cups flour, yeast and salt. Add 2 cups warm water., and beat with an electric mixer fitted with a dough hook on low to medium speed for 30 seconds. Beat on high speed for 3 minutes. Using a wooden spoon, stir in as much of the remaining flour as you can.
On a lightly floured surface, knead in enough flour to make a stiff dough that is smooth and elastic. Knead for about 8 to 10 minutes total. Shape into a ball. Place dough in greased bowl and turn once. Cover; let rise in a warm place until doubled.
Preaheat over to 375. Punch dough down; divide in half. Turn onto a lightly floured surface. Cover let rest for 10 minutes. Roll each half into a “15×10″rectangle. Roll up, starting from a long side. Moisten edge with water and seal. Taper ends. Lightly grease a large baking sheet. Sprinkle with cornmeal. Place loaves seam side down, on the prepared baking sheet. Lightly beat the egg white 1 Tsp. water, and brush on. Cover with a damp cloth. Let rise until nearly doubled, 35-40 minutes.
With a very sharp knife (with a adults help), make 3 or 4 diagonal cuts about 1/4” deep across top of each loaf. Bake for 20 minutes. Brush again with egg white mixture. Bake for an additional 15-20 minutes, or until bread sounds hollow when thumped on the bottom. If necessary, cover loosely with foil to pre-vent over browning. Remove from baking sheet, and cool on a wire rack.
Enjoy
Food Basic has a recipe for a French Toast Recipe which would be nice to make with Charlie. If David is off this week Charlie and I will make French Toast Recipe for David because David loves French Toast Recipe and this would be a nice surprise for David.
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