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What are your hopes and dreams?
This post was written by Carole Burton, visual arts specialist: The students in Opal 3 began the year with this question. In small groups they…
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Story Workshop
Story Workshop is a classroom structure we are developing at the Portland Children's Museum to support language and literacy. We are finding that the use…
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Group Dynamics
The Social / Emotional Curriculum in Opal 3 Over the course of the last month, Opal 3 has been fortunate to have Judy Graves come…
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Thinking like mathematicians
This post was written by Mary Gage Davis, Opal School Curriculum Specialist Our work at Opal School is driven by the desire to support children…
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The Strategy Fairy
This post will offer a small window into what it looks like and sounds like in the preschool classroom with children ages 3.5 to 5…
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Getting to Calm
Earlier this week, NPR did a story that centered on the work of Laura Kastner and her book, Getting to Calm: Cool-Headed Strategies for Parenting…
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