Kindergarten Explores Paper!

Kindergarten has finished exploring the properties of wood and has begun to learn about paper!  We all think it's funny that paper actually comes from wood, so we haven't really finished investigating wood yet!

We are looking at 8 different types of paper: wax paper, paper towel, tagboard, chipboard, newsprint, craft paper, cardboard and corrugated cardboard.

First we are exploring what it's like to draw on the different papers with a pencil, crayon and marker.  We wondered if all papers were good to write or draw on.

The corrugated cardboard is so hard to write on!  I can't make
a circle on it!

Two piles of papers.  One pile has paper that is easy to write on,
the other pile has papers that is hard to write on.

We discovered that it was easier to draw and write on the tagboard, craft paper and newsprint.  It was harder to write on the wax paper, corrugated cardboard and paper towel. 

The pencil on the wax paper leaves marks.

Next we folded the papers.  We started with the craft paper. It was pretty easy to fold it in half....5 times!  Then we tried to fold the cardboard in half.  That was really hard!  We could only fold it one or two times.  We noticed that thick papers were hard to fold and thin papers were easy.

The corrugated cardboard was easier to fold than the cardboard.
It was not as thick.