Travel by Air

The children talked about their green
elastic band-propelled aeroplane.

Perfect take-off!

          We had a busy week exploring how people travel by air. The children tried to work out how a plane takes off, glides through the air and lands in a landing strip. It was discussed that a typical aeroplane has to have important parts such as the wings, engine and tail to fly as well as wheels to land. A couple of children were telling their friends that the wheels actually go INSIDE the aeroplane when it is on the air!

A crash into the "forest" of giant fennel flowers!

      A lot of our little ones said that when they grow up -- and if they wanted -- they can become drivers of these planes called "pilots". Helicopter drivers are also called "pilots", too. All they have to do is go to flying school.

Everybody's safe...
We had parachutes on!

          On long trips on the aeroplane, there is a person going around giving drinks and snacks to the passengers and checks that the seatbelts are clicked on.

The children studied the mechanism
of a simple glider plane.

Our aeroplane preparing for take-off.

Get ready for my red
helicopter balloon!

The air in this balloon
propels the rotors.

Our Stickle-Bricks air transport vehicles
designed by our future pilots!

Let's skip all the aeroplane and
helicopter adventure and go 
straight for the rocket ship!
10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1... BLAST OFF!!!!!

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