Opal School Blog
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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Collaboration
Our next newly revised goal for Opal School students is this: Collaborate with others to construct ideas and create new knowledge. It looks like this:…
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Capturing the Arboretum
Lately we have been exploring the Arboretum with a different lens. We have been looking closely at it and the spaces within it and really…
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Perspective
The widespread failure to recognize the insights that can be found in all different perspectives may itself constitute a disability. -Ellen Langer Several…
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The TWELVE Good Things About Our Tree
Our tree, after a few weeks, is still missing. We are reminded of this when we strain our eyes to see if we can see…
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What is happening to the bulbs?
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all…
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2 events this month
Monday, March 5, Please join Portland City Club for an important discussion: Our feature film will be Robert Compton's "The Finland Phenomenon: Inside the World's…
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How can primary sources inform our understanding of the stories of history?
The students in Opal 4 have spent some time “stalled” on the Oregon Trail. They have used this time to deepen their understanding of where…
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Research Homework #2
Opal 3 Research Homework Week Two - Due Monday, February 27 One of the intentions of our Social Studies work in Opal 3 this year is…
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A peek at the week (plus some…)
We are fascinated with what makes us the same and different in Opal 2. In fact, we are deep into investigating many of the essentials that…
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