The Center
How will you travel??
Last week, a mysterious visitor rode in on horseback offering us all a very important invitation: Greetings! I am a messenger from the Wy'am…
DETAIL
Native American Olympics
Since our return from Spring Break, Amy (our PE teacher) has been teaching us different games based on real games played by different Native American…
DETAIL
Poetry in Early K
April is National Poetry Month, and there is no time of the year more perfect to dig deeper into the world of poetry than spring!…
DETAIL
Landscapes we Love: “Waiting for something magical to happen…”
"Where else…?" Patricia McLoughlin's All the Places to Love begged of us this week the question: What makes the places we love so…
DETAIL
“Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy”
"In creating the stage for our children's stories, we make choices. We stake out the geographies of their childhoods in home landscapes, consciously or unconsciously."…
DETAIL
What happens when scientists collaborate?
You know how sometimes, when a great idea hits the air everyone in the room can feel it? Well that happened to us some time ago…
DETAIL
Finished landscapes!
Our last post described the process of creating landscapes based on Opal 3's research of five Native American tribes of Oregon. Below you will see…
DETAIL
Creating our homelands
Opal 3 is diving into its study of Oregon history by immersing themselves in the study of five tribes of Native Americans living along the…
DETAIL
Capturing the Arboretum
Lately we have been exploring the Arboretum with a different lens. We have been looking closely at it and the spaces within it and really…
DETAIL