The Center
Stone Soup
"Oh bring what you’ve got and put it in the pot. We’re making Stone Soup." –Stone Soup, retold by Heather Forest Every Friday this…
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Our Community
The (almost) unfamiliar rains have sprinkled the ground and the leaves are begining to turn. September is most certainly upon us. I can hardly believe we have…
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The Beginnings of a Strong Learning Community
In the Early Kindergarten, our main focus in the beginning of the year is community building, which is central to all other curriculum work. As…
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So many words for happiness
Once, there was an emperor who was struggling with his people. They were so mean to each other! No matter how many rules he tried…
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We Want to Give It to the Whole Wide World
One of the values we place a lot of emphasis on in the Early K, is the children’s previous relationships to the natural world. We begin…
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We are Our Stories
We bring our schemas through the classroom door every day. What we know, what we have experienced and who we are is always present as…
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Creating Mental Images of Colorland
In Reader's Workshop, we are talking about the reading strategy of creating mental images. Mental images are the pictures that we paint in or mind. …
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Our Story is Coming Alive
Our class story, Winter's Night Hibernation, is finished! The children worked together all winter to craft a collaborative story about a group of animals who are…
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Collaborative Learning
One of the guiding principles for teaching and learning at the Opal Museum School is the belief that children are collaborators. No child lives or…
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