Share it! Joe-Joe's First Flight

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Share Joe-Joe’s First Flight with your older child (ages 5-9)

1. Before reading the story, look at the cover illustration with your child. Ask her to predict what might happen in the story.

2. Help your child look up the world "aviation" in the dictionary.

3. Ask your child to think of differences between aviation in the 1920s and today.

4. Discuss the Tuskegee Airmen and their contributions. To learn more about the Tuskegee airmen, watch the video, The Tuskegee Airmen (Rated PG-13).

5. Tell your child about Bessie Coleman and share Fly, Bessie, Fly, by Lynn Joseph (ages 4-8).

6. Ask your child about his or her dreams. Does she dream about flying? About becoming a firefighter? About becoming a doctor? Talk about some of the steps that it will take to fulfill her dreams.

7. Discuss a recent trip in which you took an airplane. What do you have to do to prepare for a trip on an airplane? What do you have to do once you get to the airport?

8. Discuss the differences between what pilots do who fly commercial airplanes and what military pilots do.

9. Pull out a map and give your child a geography lesson. Find on the map different places where he has flown—e.g. grandparent’s home. Or point out places where you have to fly for business trips.

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Share Joe-Joe’s First Flight with your younger child (ages 2-4).
(Note: The recommended age group for Joe-Joe is 4-8. Joe-Joe has a lot of text that may challenge a younger child's attention. However, you can share the illustrations with your younger child as you tell Joe-Joe's story in an abbreviated way.)

1. Ask your child to pretend she’s an airplane.

2. Look at each illustration and discuss it. For example, there are several illustrations of Joe-Joe and his father together. Talk about things that you like to do together with your child.

3. Explain what a pilot does.

4. Write the words AIRPLANE and PILOT. Ask your child to identify the letters and try to write them.

5. Print coloring pages for letters A and P.

6. Discuss other words that begin with the letter A or the letter P.

7. Discuss other forms of transportation

8. Discuss other things that fly.