Time Stowaways - Lesson 05

Chapter Five — Extra Innings
THEME: The Finer Things

⏰ Time: 75-90 minutes (depending on your activities of choice) 
Add 15-30 minutes to the end for Omnopoly Quiz Game & Travelogue  

NOTE: WE DID NOT INCLUDE ON THIS LESSON PAGE ALL THE SECONDARY RESEARCH & DISCUSSION NOTATIONS LISTED IN THE TEACHIZZ™ EDITION, BECAUSE WE SUSPECT YOU WILL BE TOO BUSY PLANNING A MULTI-COURSE MENU, LEARNING HOW TO TIE A BOW TIE, SETTING A FORMAL DINING TABLE, AND ENJOYING YOUR CAPTAIN'S DINNER 🚢 💖

🎁 Experience Enhancers: a fancy 3-course meal, Ultra Lounge music to cruise by (130+song playlist)
🎁 Click here to hear the dinner bells (Note: there may be a couple-second delay after you hit play)

👀 AT-A-GLANCE options 
  1. ⏪ Recap previous chapter
  2. 🤔 Deduction
  3. 🔍 Research
  4. 📝🦄 Plan
  5. 🎭 Re-enact
  6. 💬 Discuss
Meanwhile...

At the end of (or after) the lesson
  • ♟️Omnopoly Quiz Game
  • ✍️Travelogue Writing Prompt
  • ⛺️🗓️ Today's Story Advent{ure} Calendar action (if applicable)
  • ☎️ 🌊 This week's FATHOMS group call (optional)
📏 Scroll to bottom for Skills, DISCIPLINES, and Ages breakdown for this lesson 📐 


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1. ⏪ RECAP previous chapter - As you recall ... The Robinson kids were wheeled out of the stateroom, hidden beneath the cloth covering the room-service cart. Fortunately, the cruise constable did not find them ... not yet, anyway 


2. 🤔 DEDUCE

  • Why/how would an admiral staying on the ship affect the Robinson children? What is Frankie’s thought process here? 

3. 🔍RESEARCH & CAPTAIN'S DINNER PREP 

  • Learn how to set a formal table. This video should help (Note: The ‘oyster’ fork is actually for any ‘seafood’. Also, the video is not entirely correct, which we can explain if you ever take an etiquette class with us)
  • 🍽️ Then have the kids actually set the table. 🍎 Thereafter, students can teach the rest of the family how to set the table. 📸 Make sure to take photos of the place settings, food, and everyone dressed up. Later, these can be printed and pasted in the Travelogue
  • Practice tying a bow tie (using any strip of fabric that’s 14-18 inches in length and 2-3 inches in width. Click here for a how-to video that’s under 1 minute). 🍎 Even better, have your students learn how, then teach you! 


4. 📝🦄 PLAN

  • Use whatever resources you like to come up with a 12-course meal. (Note: When it’s time to dine, you need only serve the first 3 courses, so if planning 12 courses is too challenging, just go with 3)


5. 🎭 RE-ENACT 

  • Note: If you're re-enacting the Captain's Dinner, feel free to omit Finn talking to the crewman on guard duty or to the chief purser. That includes procuring a lock of hair 
  • 🎨 Make directional signs to post 🎭 Then re-enact transporting the stowaways through the corridors. A wagon or cart may work best for this. Make sure to conceal the children for maximum effect (and plan for potential giggling as they speed along)
  • 🎭 Re-enact dining at the captain’s table. Students and family can cosplay being the captain as well as Frankie & Finn, their fictional tablemates or waiters. Have everyone dress fancy for the occasion. (And don't forget to play the dinner bells before being seated!) 


6. 💬 DISCUSS (at the Captain's Table)

  • Do you think Frankie's plan to merely take Finn's mind off the situation (with pineapple) was a good solution? What do you think they should do to help the Robinson kids?
  • Do you know anyone who has a “gruff exterior” but (like Frankie) deep down is actually a “softy”?
  • If you had a “regular” skeleton key that could unlock all the doors in a single building, what building would you want it to be and what rooms would you want to enter?
  • Why is it important to adhere to rules, especially at home?
  • Why do you think this chapter was titled Extra Innings?


🌤️ Click here for MEANWHILE... 🖨️ Printables

👶 WEE ONES OPTION 🔑 ➪

Design a skeleton key (using the shapes in the Printables packet)

Let them color in the Directional Signs posted around the ship.

✂︎ It might also be charming to take a lock of your little one's hair and label it with today's date and a description of the lesson

🤪 ZOOMIES OPTION 🙃
Incentivize them to see how quickly (& safely) they can help clean up the kitchen after the Captain's Dinner 
~OR~
Zoom the kids around in their "covered" wagon again. That never gets old


🔠 Optional VOCAB Flashcards


♟️Omnopoly Quiz Game 5 (includes puzzle)
🔐 Click here for ANSWER KEY


✍️Travelogue Writing Prompt: 
How do you envision the experience of dining at the captain’s table? What do you think you'd enjoy about it most? Do you think you'd be nervous at all? 


📐SKILLS (dependent on age): This lesson is packed with life skills and social skills! By the end of it, your learners will know how to set a table, tie a bow tie, and how (to a degree) to plan a meal. Time allowing, you can also show them how to use utensils properly and conduct themselves at a formal dinner. Dining skills are what we are asked about most by adults when it comes to etiquette training (which we've been doing for decades).

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