This Week in Kindergarten!

Another short and busy week in kindergarten!  We are almost finished our letter printing booklets for the year.  Next step, we will continue to practice forming lower-case letters correctly.

Filling in the missing numbers from 1 to 20.

We have started to learn about different kinds of paper and how paper is made.

We are also learning different words to describe paper.

The boys and girls explored different types of paper.

We were touching the paper to see if it was thick (épais) or thin (mince).

Smooth (lisse) or rough (rugueux).

We will be experimenting with paper throughout the next few weeks and practicing our new vocabulary.

We will learn more about absorbent (absorbant) paper.

As well as transparent (transparent) paper.

Mme Godin read a story called "l'Histoire de Papillotte".  The book is about a little piece of paper who wants to know how she was made.  We also watched a short video about paper.  The boys and girls sorted paper products according to "rigide" (strong) and "souple" (flexible).

We further explored the strength of different types of paper.  We made bridges and discovered that some papers were not strong at all and fell after we placed 2 or 4 pennies on them.  Then Mme Godin folded the paper like a fan and placed it on top of the blocks to make a bridge.  We placed a whole container of pennies on top of the paper and it did not fall.

 We passed around some cardboard and looked at it very closely, only to discover that cardboard has many fan like folds in it as well.  We came to the conclusion that we use cardboard and thicker, stronger paper to make cereal boxes, crayon boxes, etc.