Category: Paper
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PAPER INVESTIGATIONS – Exploring our senses
Katlyn Bullis The many properties of paper invite children to explore using all their senses. It provides opportunities for children to build skills in all areas of development as they manipulate and explore the paper. Sound – Ripping, crinkling, and waving large pieces of paper empowers children to become scientists. Paper can make amazing loud,…
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Shadow Box Stories
At the beginning of the year, we began an exploration of light in all its forms. As we moved through the discovery of transparent, translucent, and opaque materials, experimenting with flashlights and overhead projectors, it wasn’t long before students were working with shadows. To deepen their understanding of shadows and provide more rich material for…
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Raw material, mature material.
How do infants use paper as a raw material? They use it for play, for tactile experience, for making sound, for hiding, for hugging, for sharing, for large movements and small ones too. Infants enjoy exploring paper’s relationship to motion, to wind, and to other people. The Burlington Children’s Space Infant Room has partnered with…