Here was another sensory manipulative adventure in the classroom. Shredded paper! Bringing in a new material like this big tub of shredded paper presents new questions to our kids. What looks like a big mess on the outside (many of you asked us how excited we were to clean this one up!), is also an opportunity for our children to pose and explore questions about something they've never used before. What are the properties of this material? What does it do when I clump it together? How easily does it separate? Does it stick to the wall? Does it stick in my hair? How does it fly? How does it fall? How do we gather it all together? And where do we put it when we're done? The newness of the material kept our children busy all week, testing and questioning with the attentiveness and joy of scientific minds.
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