Opal School Blog
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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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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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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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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What happens when scientists collaborate?
You know how sometimes, when a great idea hits the air everyone in the room can feel it? Well that happened to us some time ago…
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