Excursión MFS – Intensive Learning @ MFS

Fiesta con Tamales!

April 2, 2017April 2, 2017Blog Editor

Excursión MFS filled the hallways with the wonderful smells of homemade tamales, flan cake, guacamole, and churros cookies today. We cooked a feast! After a wonderful week with an enthusiastic group of students, we sat and enjoyed one another over a delicious meal....

Cousin’s Grocery Store and Cooking

March 31, 2017March 31, 2017Blog Editor

Cousin’s Grocery Store Today we created a grocery shopping list for our fiesta tomorrow. We divided the list into different groups and had a competition to see who would find all of their items first. Michél and Assata won. We headed back to school and had lunch and began prepping the food. Julianna, Kendall,...

Excursión MFS — Dance Lessons

March 29, 2017March 29, 2017Blog Editor

Before the day started, we stopped at Wawa to get some energy for our two-hour dance lesson. We went to Estilo Dance Studio to learn about and try some traditional Latino dances. We learned to dance the salsa, meringue, and bachata. After each session we learned about the origin of each dance. For example,...

Southwark Bilingual Elementary School

March 29, 2017March 29, 2017Blog Editor

Our day started off with a fun bus ride to South Philly. We spent our second day at Southwark Elementary Bilingual School. We were split up into different kindergarten and first grade classes. We helped the teacher out with her work and then we spent time...

New Friends at Southwark Elementary

March 27, 2017March 27, 2017Blog Editor

“Celebrando a los mujeres en su mes” Today we traveled to Southwark Elementary, a bilingual school located in South Philadelphia. When we arrived to Southwark, we split into groups that each worked with students in grades Kindergarten, first, and second. The day was spent reading books and playing games with our new...

A Visit to Taller Puertorriqueño

March 24, 2017March 30, 2017Blog Editor

First we went to Taller Puertorriqueño, where we were shown their art gallery with Puerto Rican art. We were interested in the art because it was modern art; they were old paintings with holograms over them to make them modern. Afterward we made t-shirts and we painted them with Puerto Rican themed stencils....