Talk About It! Answer these questions with your reading partner.
Did you like the video? What did you like?
What did the hot air balloon pilot, Tom, say about a rooster, a duck and a sheep?
Explain what all three animals have to do with hot air ballooning.
What year did hot air ballooning ‘launch’?
Miss Ostrich hopes you liked the video and explained what you liked!
The rooster, duck and sheep were the first living creatures to fly.
These animals were used to test the safety of flying. No one knew if there was air to breathe, but there was. All of the animals survived the test flight.
Ballooning began in 1783.
