The Center
It Starts with a Seed
As teacher-researchers, we feel strongly about nurturing children’s connection to nature through playing, making, and sharing. Stories are one way we play and share with…
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Write of Way
The late-season heirloom tomatoes were stunning in their gowns of scarlet red and golden yellow. The last of the summer raspberries rested quietly alongside mounds…
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Taking Care and Nurturing
This last month has been a busy one in the Early K classroom. We were in charge of taking care of many things from…
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Farewell and Anticipation
There are exciting things happening at the Portland Children's Museum and the Opal School this spring. The Museum will begin to break ground on their new…
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From imaginative play to scientific investigations
Several months ago we started to read Colin Meloy's novel Wildwood in Opal 3. This story, which uses the backdrop of Portland and its famed…
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What Literacy Looks Like in Early K
As early childhood educators, we are asked a lot about what literacy looks like in our classroom. To begin, we would like to define literacy.…
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Something is Happening
We have been taking care of our "Thunder Egg" since it appeared into our classroom. We built it a nice, cozy and safe nest, but…
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A Mysterious Delivery
In our previous post (Learning to Nurture), we expressed that we are paying attention to the caring and nurturing ways we observe within this new…
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Science Talk – Decomposing Pumpkins
Halloween came and went, as it always does, and with it so did the lovely pumpkins and jack-o-lanterns that help define and symbolize this exciting…
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