Teaching and Learning
Expecting the magical
This post was written by teacher, Avery Hill, and is a window into our Opal 3 classroom, serving children ages 8 – 10 years :…
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Good guys vs. Bad guys
Giving the children more time to play and imagine together around the imaginary seeds they had created did just what we hoped it would do.…
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How can the tree not know?
The following post is from our Early Kindergarten, serving children ages 4 – 6 years: I have always had tempera paints in my classroom from…
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The We That I Am
The final goal and expecation that we have for Opal School students is this: Develop strategies that contribute to the quality of the community by…
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Seeing through someone else’s eyes
On April 6, 2012, I gathered the class on the stage to follow up from our previous work. Levia: Do you know this book? SBM: …
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What happens when 4th and 5th graders experience cultures in conflict in history?
At Opal School, one of our goals for our students is for them to Develop an understanding and curiosity about multiple points of view. Have…
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Nature Play
In the Fall 2011 issue of The American Journal of Play, there is an interview with Richard Louv (author of Last Child in the Woods)…
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Accuracy, Elegant Design and Efficiency
Here is another goal for Opal Students: Develop an appreciation of and capacity for accuracy, elegant design and efficiency. This is the stuff that makes…
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The Languages of the Arts and Sciences
The child is made of one hundred. The child hasa hundred languagesa hundred handsa hundred thoughtsa hundred ways of thinkingof playing, of speaking. A hundred.…
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The World of Words
Opal School's goals and expectations for developing readers and writers are stated: Reads the world: explores, ideas and relationships; makes connections between new and known…
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