Flying the English Channel

This week in our homeschool we are reading The Glorious Flight, the true story of Louis Bleriot, who was the first to successfully fly from France to England in the early days of flight invention.  We have taken two weeks to finish it, since I was gone and people have been sick.  It was a new book to me and very well written...we have learned about France, England and the English Channel, onomatopoeia, Roman numerals and Ordinal numbers, parts of an airplane and the history of flight (mostly the Wright brothers...we are even getting in some NC history) and the lesson of persevarance.  Today we made paper airplanes and practice flying them across "the English Channel" (A blue blanket). Then Austin proceeded to make France and England out of Legos on either side.  It was fun...though Bennett has had a bit of a hard time lately with everything and got pretty frustrated with the airplane.  Overall I would say we are all enjoying Five in a Row.