Intensive Learning @ MFS
The World At Your Fingertips
Today we started off with a practice of yoga for an hour. After an energetic practice of yoga, we ate breakfast. We made leftover pancakes, chia pudding, rice pudding, and eggs which came from Ms. Edmund’s chicken farm. Afterwards, we walked over to the yoga studio on Main Street to do Aerial Yoga. We...
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By Michael, Hunter, Christian, & Jordan E Today was our last day in the Big Yellow House. We packed everything up and ate breakfast around 8 a.m. We left the house at around 9:00 to head to El Yunque rainforest. On the way to the rainforest we stopped in the little town of Palmer,...
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Today was our last proper day of the England & Ireland trip, and our first full day in London. We got up, had breakfast, and the hotel, and went on our way. We first stopped outside Buckingham Palace for photos and to watch the houses guards come down the street. Right after, we hopped...
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This morning we visited the Garden of Archimedes, which is a museum for mathematics. We saw many different geometrical contraptions revolving around hyperbolas, parabolas, circles, and ellipses. It is important to note that the “garden” aspect is figurative. We learned that there are more efficient ways to transport items by knowing the properties of...
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This Wednesday for our Yoga Intensive Learning, we took a trip to Amico Island. The morning started off with our daily yoga practice, followed by breakfast. Breakfast included granola, yogurt, chia seed pudding, and banana bread. After eating breakfast, a lesson was introduced about the seven universal truths.These truths conveyed that you are exactly...
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Today, some of us started off our morning with a 550 piece puzzle which we finished in an hour. Soon after the puzzle was completed, we then began to sew intricate, simple, and beautiful quilts, burp cloths, bibs, and pants. After we took had a brief break, we then starting sewing even more things...
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Today, we went on a really big hike to Apple Pie Hill. We first went to a memorial place dedicated to Emilio Carranza. His plane crashed in the Pine Barrens when he was trying to fly from New York City to Mexico City. The memorial was really impressive and we learned it was constructed...
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When we got to Philadelphia, our first stop was at a familiar place: a Quaker Meeting House. The guide welcomed us into Arch Street Meeting House, and shared a bit of history about the meeting. After we walked to Christ Church, a pivotal historical, religious landmark in Philadelphia. Many important historical figures of the...
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Most of our work on our fifth and final day at the Bayshore Center was a continuation of tasks we’ve posted about before, like varnishing and painting, but one job was both brand new and epic. It was “all hands on deck” to carry the sails from their storage loft through the Bayshore office,...
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We started our day with a glorious bus ride to Bryn Mawr. Traffic was light, surprisingly, and we were all anxious to get working on our projects. As we arrived, we put our belongings inside the Harriton house and then went out to the forges to start the fires. Two of the fires started...
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A beautiful spring day for our visit to this amazing plant museum. There are all kinds of collectors out there. Pierre du Pont collected plants and trees. Today we learned a little something about a garden that is bigger than Harry’s home town of Wenonah. We toured the gigantic conservatory, a welcome tropical respite...
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On our last full day of Intensive Learning, we were taught gong fu fan by zhang Lao shi. It was fun to learn, but scary knowing that we will have to perform in front of all the local IL programs tomorrow. After 3 hours of practice we traveled to Yi Pan in Mt. Laurel...
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Today, we spent the day helping out at the Paws Discovery Farm. We split up into groups and did a lot of different tasks throughout the area. Some of us cleaned the play area, while others helped make Easter eggs for their egg hunt, and some of us picked up trash around the farm....
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Today’s multicultural Philadelphia experience included a tour of some of the murals that are found throughout the city of Philadelphia. We got to learn about how people use art as a way to express their beliefs, gratitude, and emotion. We had the opportunity to walk around Philly to see murals that depicted the LGBTQIA...
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We began our fifth day of Food: Cooking, Culture, and Custom’s with a game of jeopardy centered around food and culture. We learned lots of cool, random fact about cooking. For example, we learned that forcing oil and water to mix is called emulsion. We also learned that evaporating all or virtually all water...
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