The Center
Putting it all in perspective
Someone walks in the classroom, looks out the window, comes to sit at the risers and says to someone: "I've never seen anything like that…
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Telling our favorite family stories
As many folks at Opal School know by now, one of my passions is telling stories. I love telling any story, really, but my favorite…
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“How do we become friends with a tree?”
One day you will find a tree standing tall in the sun hiding secrets in its branches and feel that this tree is special. to…
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Beginning to think like historians
Shortly before Winter Break, Opal 3 began to dive into the questions of studying history: What was life like in the past? What was here…
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The Other Way to Listen
"When you know the "other way to listen," you can hear wildflower seeds burst open, you can hear the rocks murmuring, and the hills singing,…
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Just look at us now!
Our "community colors" mural thus far: Beautiful. Although we are still wondering together about our eventual center "bloom," there is one thing Opal 2 knows for…
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Out with “Agreements”, in with “Guiding Pillars”
Opal 3's work to compose and adopt agreements for our community has continued these past weeks. After brainstorming and refining, the children came to agreement…
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What can you learn from loving the trees?
In Opal 2 we LOVE our trees. Watching the trees through young eyes renewed my own sense of wonder and majesty. Intrigued by the power of the…
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The Little Moments
As teachers in the Early Kindergarten classroom, we spend most of our days observing, noticing and paying attention to the little moments that occur in…
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