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Date Posted: 21:23:49 09/02/02 Mon
Author: Liann
Subject: Here are some Wright Brother's Bio. Ideas
In reply to: Sharon W 's message, "We finished unit 1this past week" on 11:27:00 09/01/02 Sun

>Liann,
>
>We just finished up the first unit and will be
>beginning unit 2 this week. We've had a good time. We
>did a newspaper about Louis Braille and made a
>timeline book about communications. We did a page for
>each major discovery related to communications and she
>put the date, inventor, and a picture for each
>invention.
>
>We really got into Braille and Morse code. Brittany
>has walkie talkies that can be used with Morse
>messages and she's been doing that a lot. She's also
>been punching messages in Braille.
>
>I'm looking forward to transportation, but haven't
>found a good book to read for our book report. I told
>Brittany she could do Mouse and the Motorcycle since
>it was related to transportation, but she didn't take
>me seriously. I'd like to find a biography of the
>Wright brothers, since she loves biographies more than
>anything else.
>
>I'm afraid some of the grammar for unit two will prove
>to be a little too much for Brittany since she's also
>dyslexic and so she struggles with language. I think
>what we're going to do is take it slower and focus on
>the types of sentences (statements, questions...) and
>spread it out more and not get to the more advanced
>sentence types (simple, complex, compound).
>
>We generally spend about 1 1/2 hours on our regular
>school work. As a rule, Brittany whips through her
>work, so it goes pretty quickly. I'd like to integrate
>more field trips to tie in with the transportation. We
>recently went to a museum that had a conestoga wagon,
>so that's taken care of. I wish we had a car factory
>nearby, but usually they don't let kids go anyway, so
>I guess it wouldn't do us any good even if we had one.
>I guess we could go to a vintage car show. We used to
>have an old car and do the shows when she was little,
>and we still go occasionally, but we could turn it
>into a more learning experience.
>
>I have this series of history books that are each
>about one event or topic of history and I discovered
>one of the books is all about conestoga wagons.
>
>Our Bill's Dollar Store went out of business and we
>shopped a lot during the going out of business sale.
>We bought when it was 25% off, 40% off, 60% off, and
>finally 90% off. One day an employee asked why
>Brittany wasn't in school and I explained that we
>homeschooled. Then I told her we were on a field trip
>studying percentages. I don't know that she completely
>grasps percentages exactly, but she learned enough to
>get the general idea.
>
>Like always, Laid Back Learning ran into snags. I got
>a laptop and wrote the whole book on the laptop,
>complete with cute graphics. Well, the publisher has
>this software setup where I send them my manuscript
>via an internet connection. Only my laptop doesn't
>have a modem so it had to be transferred to another
>computer. But then with the graphics, it was too big
>to fit on a disc. Then we realized that I'd used
>Microsoft Word to type it up and we didn't have Word
>on the other computer. So then we ran into problems
>when we tried to install it on the other computer, and
>in the process the formatting got off, so it's been a
>mess. It should be ready within the next few weeks,
>though.
>
>Well, gotta run.
>Happy Homeschooling!
>Sharon

Hi Sharon,

Since Gabriel is so into flight, I have quite a few biographies on the Wright Brothers sitting around here. As a part of Learning Lanugage Arts Through Literature, Gabriel will be reading the Childhood of Famous Americans book Wilbur and Orville Wright: Young Fliers by Augusta Stevenson. I have a friend who is reading a book about the Wright Brothers that is from the Sower Series which is available from Mott Media (a homeschool publisher) and is recommended by Dr. Dobson from Focus on the Family. We also have it, but have not read it yet. It is called The Wright Brothers: They Gave Us Wings by Charles Ludwig. Both of these are regular chapter books and may be something you would want to read to Brittany depending on her reading ability. The Sower series book is definately at a high reading level with small print, but the Childhood of Famous Americans is about a third or fourth grade level with large print. Gabriel is dyslexic and is just now able to read them at 9 1/2. Another option is The Story of the Wright Brothers and Their Sister by Lois Mills which is published by Christian Liberty Press. It is about fourth grade reading level I think. The book Young Orville and Wilbur Wright: First to Fly is a Troll First-Start Biography and is a 31 page picture book. It is wonderful and is at about a second grade reading level. There is also an I Can Read book about the Wright Brothers which I believe is called First in Flight or First Flight. It is a very well loved early chapter book. I think that it is an I Can Read level 2 or 3. Gabriel read it last year and has re-read it about 3 or 4 times. It is probably 60 or so pages. I am trying to remember this from memory. If you need more details on this one I can get it for you tomorrow. It is in the boys bookself in their room and they are asleep now. Just post to me or e-mail me. Any of these should be available from Borders, Barnes and Noble, Amazon or Christian Book Distributors.

I hope that this list helps. Can you tell that Gabriel loves the Wright Brothers? He even wrote his own book about them this year called The Most Controlled and First Flight. He won fourth place for it in the 4H fair this year. He is so techinical. He told me that they were not just noted for the first flight, but the key was that they had the most controlled flight. :-)

Blessings,
Liann

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Replies:

Wow! -- Sharon, 06:22:36 09/03/02 Tue
- More ideas for you..... -- Liann, 20:27:43 09/03/02 Tue
  - Guess what I found -- Sharon, 08:15:51 09/04/02 Wed
- Have you visted Thomas Edison's Winter Home in Ft. Myers?? -- Kris in TN, 05:51:11 09/06/02 Fri
  - I would love to go! -- Sharon, 07:12:56 09/06/02 Fri