Caroline Wolfe
The Secrets of Wire: Play, Reflection and Relationships with Risk
As my colleagues and I continued to think together about our big idea of transformation and some of our research questions, we wondered what materials…
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Learning to Walk and Talk (and Write)
When I first began as an assistant teacher long ago, I attended a parent meeting at the school on the topic of young children and…
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What lives inside of joy?
In the days before the children arrived at school, my colleagues and I considered how to prepare the classroom environments and we developed our intentions for…
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Partnering with Families – Sharing resources for shared meaning-making
What is possible when we invite parents and teachers together to create shared meaning of our goals and expectations for children? What connections, stories and…
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A Community in the Making
For many young children, preschool is their first experience in being a part of a community outside of their family community. In bringing a group of…
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The Wonder of a Seed
In the last few weeks, children in Preschool have discovered, encountered and collected many different types of seeds: within beans pods brought from a child's…
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The Running Space – a collaborative experience and poem
The Running Space Running up hill and then down, and then up hill, and then down the hill, and then up . . . Picking…
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Simple Materials Can Hold Complex Ideas
As educators we believe that young children have the right to use a variety of materials that facilitate opportunities for exploration, experimentation, discovery and creation.…
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Our first days together
The intention of our blog posts is to build connections between Opal School's pedagogy and what this actually looks like and sounds like in the…
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Natural Materials Dialogue
"But too often and too quickly the leaves become leaf corpses far removed from the 'pulse of life' which ought not to be lost during…
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