Exploring Animation With the MFS Preschool

Final Day Of Exploring Animation

March 28, 2026March 28, 2026Exploring Animation With the MFS PreschoolLeave a comment

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Final day making movies with the squad!

March 26, 2026March 26, 2026Exploring Animation With the MFS PreschoolLeave a comment

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Bonding With Our New Friends In Lower School

March 26, 2026March 26, 2026Exploring Animation With the MFS PreschoolLeave a comment

The Upper Schoolers bonding and playing with the Preschoolers in Anastasia’s class. We worked on drawing title cards for the stop-motion credits. They helped to design the title card of the movie as well as the name cards for the Upper Schoolers. The Upper Schoolers and Preschoolers sitting and listening to a story that...

Making Progress on Our Animations

March 24, 2026March 24, 2026Exploring Animation With the MFS Preschool

We started our second day of Exploring Animation in Garrett’s group by finishing up our background and creating more characters for our store, like mermaids, pirates, and sharks. For Anastasia’s Group we spent our second day by finishing up characters, the background, and starting our short film movie. The Pre-K helped us with smiles...

Getting to Know Our Groups!

March 23, 2026March 23, 2026Exploring Animation With the MFS Preschool

Exploring Animation, Day One For the first day of Exploring Animation 2026, we spent the morning brainstorming ideas for the animation the groups are going to create, getting to know each other with play, and creating the beginnings of our project sets....

Exploring Animation: Final Day!

March 28, 2025April 28, 2025Exploring 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...

Exploring Animation, Day Five: Almost Done With Our Movies!

March 27, 2025March 27, 2025Exploring Animation With the MFS Preschool

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...

Exploring Animation, Day Three

March 27, 2025March 27, 2025Exploring Animation With the MFS Preschool

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...

Exploring Animation, Day Three

March 25, 2025March 25, 2025Exploring Animation With the MFS Preschool

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....

Exploring Animation, Day Two: Building Connections

March 24, 2025March 24, 2025Exploring Animation With the MFS Preschool

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...

New Beginnings, Otherworld, and Snow White!

March 21, 2025March 21, 2025Exploring Animation With the MFS Preschool

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...