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Outside Stories and Inside Stories
All year long the children in Opal 1 have been enthralled with the idea of a magic crystal. It has been an idea that has…
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What’s happening at the Creek?
May 3, 2012 We went back to the creek today, our creek, that we have visited often and developed a relationship with this year. Click…
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What happens when 4th and 5th graders are invited to read critically?
April 19, 2012 We finished our read aloud book, A Perfect Place. This is how the book ended: At sunset tonight, Pa was standing on…
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Creating Characters
“Play is our brain's favorite way of learning.” ~Diane Ackerman In response to what we were seeing with the garden work, we wanted to give…
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Natural Materials Dialogue
"But too often and too quickly the leaves become leaf corpses far removed from the 'pulse of life' which ought not to be lost during…
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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!…
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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…
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“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."…
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Discovering Heritage
Your children are not your children They are the sons and daughters of life longing for itself and though they are with you they belong…
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