The Glorious Flight: The Joy of Discovering an Old Lapbook

In the midst of a massive spring cleaning project, I rediscovered a small stash of lapbooks. 

These are lovely lapbooks that Neighbor Girl and I created together when she was younger. Ahhh, back in the days when I apparently had a tremendous amount of time on my hands. 

Five in a Row made a huge impact in our early homeschooling days. We enjoyed the books selected in the program and loved the activities associated with them. The Caldecott winner, The Glorious Flight by Alice and Martin Provensen became one of our favorites. 

This lovely picture book shares the story of Louis Bleriot. His tremendous persistence in creating an airplane that will cross the English Channel, is told in an amusing way.

Rather than doing a formal book review, I will share a selection of pages from our lapbook from The Glorious Flight. It is difficult to believe that we made this five years ago. Time sure flies.  

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 Title: The Glorious FlightAcross the Channel with Louise BleriotWritten & Illustrated by: Alice and Martin ProvensenFirst Published in 1983 by Viking Penguin Inc.Awards: The Caldecott Medal (1984)Themes/Topics: Airplane History, Inventions, Geography (France, English Channel), PersistenceOpening: "It all began one morning." 
The Glorious Flight Lapbook The cover of our lapbook contains our alternative title ideas.
Chitty, Chitty, Bang, Bang FlightGood Flying, Bad LandingsMaking it Across the ChannelAll of Papa Bleriot's PlanesThe Bunny Rabbit Flight

Since this was Neighbor Girl's lapbook, I had her sign and date the inside cover. Gotta love it.

A picture of a channel.


This book introduced Roman Numerals in the names of Papa Bleriot's planes.


We discussed different ways to travel. My favorite: "On a Dinosaur."

A fun way to introduce onomatopoeia: allow your child to come up with their own word-sounds. She had so much fun finishing these sentences.

For descriptive writing, I cut out pictures for her to describe to me.

I highly recommend Five in a Row (FIAR) for an early year unit study curriculum. You may use as much or as little of the activities as you wish - which is right up my alley. I honestly, do not think we would have enjoyed most of the books that we studied using FIAR nearly as much as we did with all of the supporting activities listed in Five in a Row. Don't get me wrong, they are all fantastic books but when you read a book and do a week's worth of activities with that book - it becomes an experience rather than just a good book. Being five years on the other side of this, we both still remember the books well and I only wish that my stash of lapbooks was a much larger pile. 


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Hi! I am a homeschooling mother to one precocious tween daughter. Most of my reading consists of preparatory reading for upcoming history, math, science, geography, literature, (you get the idea) lessons. However, sometimes I am lucky enough to fit in a book just for fun and will review these "fun" books for my dear friends, Stanley and Katrina von Cat the Master of Wisdom and Knowledge. You may call me Neighbor Girl's Mom or Cool Mom. 



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