All under one roof
To readers of Opal School Online, it might be easy to forget that Opal School was a project of the Portland Children’s Museum. To Portland…
Tag: play
In This Tree Lives Hope
In the Magnolia Classroom community, the children have been focused on developing and learning to appreciate their connection to the natural world. They are practicing strategies…
Why we don’t do art in school (and why we should)
This post by Susan Harris MacKay first appeared on the Living in Dialogue blog. In these times, when the demolition of a place as historic…
Art & Nature
Sure, it’s been raining in Portland – but we’re still getting out, because it’s good for our health.
Learning about playing to learn
Play is a strategy for learning for which humans are hardwired. This message seems clear, both in the literature as well as Opal School’s lived…
Keeping it Lively
Getting ready for next month’s Symposium, I find myself re-reading Ann Pelo’s The Language of Art. She writes, “we begin to use the word ‘art’…
Joy!
It has been a busy and full week in Opal 2 as we have been trying to adjust to the time change, recover from all of…