Science Talk – Decomposing Pumpkins
Halloween came and went, as it always does, and with it so did the lovely pumpkins and jack-o-lanterns that help define and symbolize this exciting…
Tag: curriculum
Playful Literacy
At Opal School, we have spent years asking ourselves– What is the relationship between play and language? In Reggio Emilia a decade ago I heard…
What does a Genre-Based Writing Study look like in Opal 4?
As we discussed on Literacy Night at Opal School last week, the writing component of Literacy Studio in the upper grades at Opal School is…
Literacy Studio
What is Literacy Studio? Literacy Studio is an approach to developing increasingly sophisticated reading and writing skills and attitudes through the application of the arts, lived experience,…
Inspiration
With all of our talk with Opal 2 students in this first month of school about intentions, some questions have come up about the process of being…
The role of questions
Unanswerable questions should be a source of comfort. They ensure that you will always have something to think about! But why do puzzlements provide satisfaction?…
A Study of Bugs
In second and third grade this year, the “big idea” we are studying is the concept of interdependence. This idea of each living thing having its…