Exploring Animation With the MFS Preschool

Today we enjoyed our last day with the preschoolers during Intensive Learning. Today we started by meeting in Ms. Tate’s room like usual and re-capped the week. The Upper Schoolers even decorated some windows adding to Ms. Tate’s collection of past students and advisees. Then some students enjoyed a bagel with the other local IL...

Students worked on finalizing their stop motion movies with the preschoolers. This included recording voiceovers, taking pictures, and taking breaks to play. This Thursday, upper schoolers started their day by going to the preschool classrooms to begin their planning for the day. Preschoolers were happy to see us! We played and worked on our...

This Wednesday that we spent with the pre-school at MFS was full of emotions and learning experiences, as well as moments that helped to spark creativity in both divisions. One group spent a lot of time discussing boundaries along with working on our stop motion movies, making sure everyone felt comfortable and safe in...

Today, for our third day, our group started with a short Meeting for Worship with the preschoolers. We stayed for around 20 minutes, then split off to go work on our videos. While the high schoolers began working on the stop motion, the preschoolers began to play and build more connections with other highschoolers....

Unlike the Upper Schoolers, this was the preschoolers’ first time in the dining hall. They were very excited to sit in the big chairs and enjoyed sitting with the “big kids.” It was fun to hear them point out details that they thought were cool because it made us realize and appreciate little details...

We all were so excited to get to know the preschoolers, and we can’t wait to continue working on our movie in the subsequent days! Today marked our first day of IL! We kicked off the morning by gathering in the classroom to revisit our norms and prepare for the days ahead. Our first...