The Pinay Homeschooler

The Glorious Flight {FIAR}

Thursday, April 9, 2015

"This book...recounts the persistence of a Frenchman, Louis Bleriot, to build a flying machine to cross the English Channel.... The text is succinct, caption-like in its directness and brevity....The paintings...add the necessary testure and tone to this marriage. This is vintage Provensen" –School Library Journal

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

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.

in addition, we check out landforms as well, as Mavi was asking me “Mommy, what is a channel?”

Since it is in France, Mavi made the flag of France. I was surprise he still remembers the colours.

And of course, the exciting part was creating the English Channel using our coloured rice, Europe Pin Flags and Learning Resources Transportation counters.
Math

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!

Science
We studied Airplanes! Here are the books we used:

They were all helpful! The only thing that we didn’t do was to have an experiment on flying. Oh well, maybe next time.
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Airplane Cover

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.

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).

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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FREE Parts of an Airplane Nomenclature Cards

Friday, April 3, 2015

A few weeks ago, I made a parts of an airplane nomenclature cards for Mavi. The study of an airplane was part of our The Glorious Flight row. These cards helped him explore the different parts of an airplane and learned how each part function (we used some books as reference).

Vertebrate Sorting Cards

Thursday, April 2, 2015

Here’s one of my bestseller files, the Vertebrate Sorting Cards! Mavi loves using the files to create a chart of vertebrate animals. Six animal pictures for each animal classification.

You can also use animal figures for this. Our animal figures were from Schleich and Safari Toobs

See how Mavi put all of these into action.

Montessori Landforms Cards

Monday, March 30, 2015

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Here’s my presentation of the landform cards. Although this was not the first time Mavi encountered the cards, he was more than excited to use our new Montessori materials because this time, it has textures! Plus, it helped that we have this Learning Resources Transportation counters to use with our cards! You can get this from any Montessori shop or from Amazon. (Mine is from Tower High learning)

If you want you want to see our introduction to landforms, read it here.

I created the description cards that you see in the photo. I love doing this and let Mavi read :) It is my way of letting him practice reading, not just in books.

Now the transportation counters helped a LOT in my presentation. It helped me demonstrate where’s the land and water in the cards. Such a perfect tool for visual presentation!