Friday, January 16th

Paper?!? We're making paper!?!

My first day in with the kindergarteners for second semester was the day we began the long process of making our own paper!

For the past few months, we've been speaking to the kindergartners about the glories of recycling, and the amazing things one can do to help recycle things around the house. Friday was the culmination of this venture, and an exciting process it has been!

Using old rapping paper from the Christmas Season, we stuffed that paper into a blender, added water and a little bit of stabilizer, and then shredded it all down into gooey, sticky, (lovely) pulp which we then dried out, and set on a piece of wax paper to dry over the MLK weekend.

Our hopes are to return to class on Tuesday (or, in my case, Wednesday) and find our newly made (roughly clean) paper waiting there for us when we return.

Stay tuned for our later advancement...

Wait...won't we need pens? OOH! ARE WE GONNA MAKE THOSE TOO!?!

Till then, this is Etienne Porras; see ya Wednesday.

P.S. Sorry for the delay, would you want these too be done the day of? If so, please tell me. Thanks!