Opal School Blog
Week in Pictures – October 24-28
Here is our week in pictures: Monday: Download 10-24-11 Tuesday: Download 10-25-11 Wednesday: Download 10-26-11 Thursday : Download 10-27-11 Friday: Download…
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Crafting an Understanding of Poetry through Feedback
How do children learn the craft of great writing? What are the experiences in the life of a writer that lead them to clearly communicate with…
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Genre Study: Slice of Life, Part One
Opal 3 recently launched our first genre study of the year. For the past and next weeks, we are focusing our writing studies on what…
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A Week in Photos – October 24 – 28
Sorting the Fall leaf collections What happens when friend red meets friend yellow and friend white? A quiet moment in the Upper Meadow Capturing collage…
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Opal 1 Schedule
All of a sudden it seems that fall is really here and so is the end of October! The children in Opal 1 are becoming…
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Week In Pictures – October 17-21
Playing with our Dinosaur Garden – Early K playfully explores a garden of the imagination October 17, 2011 Getting to Know Our Faces October 18,…
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Why are the children so muddy?
We have a place. We have a place in the Arboretum that is already ours. We call it The Creek. We know how to get…
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Sharing Expertise
"In their five years on this planet, these children have all become experts in parts of their lives." -Andi Cunnignham from Starting with Comprehension …
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Math Curriculum Night
Last Tuesday night the Center for Children's Learning hosted the second of three curriculum nights for the Charter School, this time focused on math. Mary…
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What does taste look like?
"At the center of our work, the atelier (studio) is at once the physical hub and the conceptual space that is catalyst and container for…
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