A few weeks ago, during explore we offered spending time with the baby dragon-unicorn as an option. A group of girls chose this – L.B., V. D.-B., S.M. and J.L.. L.B. was very much in the lead, but they were all sitting around the baby with her holding it. They were feeding it with the …
As the weather turns colder, our bellies and hearts remind us that we’ve got to work together to stay warm and loved inside and out! Small groups of children have been scurrying around our beloved play spaces, preparing recipes of mud soups for our community. They’ve been collecting and gathering bits and pieces of natural …
Camp Collins. Thirty hours of being together, facing new challenges and getting to know ourselves and each other in very new ways. On Friday morning, the students were asked what mental images from the previous day’s experiences were standing out in their minds, they wrote the following: The Giant’s Swing It felt like freefall… …
So much of this time of year is devoted, implicitly and explicitly, to community building. Following are some photos of what community building looks like in Opal 4. This week, Opal 4 will travel to Camp Collins, a YMCA camp outside of Gresham, to immerse ourselves in a different kind of community building. We …