Thursday, March 21, 2013

Comparing Airports

Each year we visit our airport and each year we create our own
airport at school.
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 This is the check in counter where we show our tickets and
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have our luggage weighed and tagged.  When it is ready it disappears
on a conveyor belt into the Baggage Security area.  We can't take picutres
in there but the suitcases go through a big xray machine then out to
the cargo area.
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At school we sell tickets and get the baggage ready to put on the plane.
We don't have a conveyor belt but we started thinking of what we could
use to make one.  One child suggested rubber bands and tubes.

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We learned the signals that the marshal uses to park the plane.
Outside we saw a yellow “T” on the ground where the plane needs to stop.
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Back at school we practiced the signals for turning and stopping a plane.

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We added a runway with lights then after visiting the airport we added the “T”.
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Ready to fly?
Some of our destinations were to Hawaii, Mexico, Toronto,
Vancouver and the most popular Disneyland.

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At the airport we were able to watch a plane land, taxi in, marshal to a stop,
unload and reload.  It’s ready to head to Vancouver.
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We saw where the pets are kept while waiting for their plane.
And what happens to the luggage after they are unloaded from the plane.

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Back at school the flight attendants were busy taking snack orders
and providing reading materials for the long trips.

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Thank you to Alex and Lesley for taking the time to show us
around the airport.  And letting us pretend to be planes on the
tarmac.
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