Even though it’s not our summer school lesson today, we’ll be getting out the old lapbook anyway. I remember hot air balloons being a great study. I checked the following resource links and all seem to be working.
June 5 is the anniversary of the first hot air balloon flight (1783). Last year as part of summer school calendar studies Z, J, and I decided to learn everything we could about hot air balloons.
We made this lapbook from http://www.homeschoolshare.com/hot_air.php and added a few of our own ideas.
Our library had a few children’s books about hot air balloons. These two were our favorites.
Here is a link to a cute craft idea we tried, of course we had to use batman action figures in the basket instead of the child picture http://www.dltk-holidays.com/summer/mballoon.html
We thought this video from the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta was fascinating!
betty jo
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