Opal School Blog
Wondering about Waste
What will we do with the trash? Our intention as a staff this year was to focus on the idea of food to table –…
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Story Workshop Structures
In our second month of Story Workshop, we have introduced several structures which support the storytelling process and invite room for inspiration, reflection, exchange, and growth. …
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Math Explore
Today we began a new structure following Story Workshop called Math Explore. Math Explore will be a time for the children to explore a variety…
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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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The Story of the Story
How does a group of more than twenty 5 – 7 year old children write a story together that they all feel they proudly authored…
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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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Changing Education Paradigms
This is great support for questioning our assumptions about education, and a fun eleven minute animation:
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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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