Paper Airplanes

Today we drove past the toy airplane field near our house and the boys got to see a plane flying. They came home and had their own visions of flying. I found this website with easy directions to make planes http://www.funpaperairplanes.com/Plane%20Downloads.html. So as I write they are outside working to take flight! How fun! We may just have to skip nap today and have a lesson on flying :-)

Here is a picture of our fleet (is that the correct term for airplanes?). Once Jim sat down with the boys our airplanes really took flight. He made multiple planes on his own with no cheat lines and directions. The boys were impressed at how well he could fly them and hit mom! Samuel is still asking for me to attempt some of the advanced and specialty planes, I will keep you posted on that progress.

Anyway it was a successful learning experience too. From the website I was able to talk to the boys about the four forces acting on flight (lift, gravity, thrust and drag) and they even related it to birds and how they fly, which we have studied some. The next day they were able to tell Grandma the 4 things as well as talk about the pilot for their planes. It was so cute when Isaak was trying to say pilot it came out pirate and Jim and I laughed hysterically.