Intensive Learning @ MFS
The World At Your Fingertips
Today we went to the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History. The floor levels correspond with the time periods of important events in Jewish history. The higher levels are farther back in time, while the lower levels are more modern. Our favorite level was the fourth level because of its interactive exhibits. Throughout...
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Our day started with breakfast at the hotel in Toledo. We enjoyed croissants, toast, scrambled eggs, ham, orange juice, and more. Then we gathered our necessities and began walking to the two museums we planned to visit today. First we visited Museo Sefarí (Sephardic Museum). The museum was opened in 1971, and explains the...
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Here’s what some of our group had to say about our third day of Folk Art & Living Simply … We used natural dyes to create imprints of flower petals and leaves. I used the red cabbage dye, hibiscus dye, and salt to create my patterns. I also used batteries to flatten some of...
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After ending our third night with heavy snowfall, we woke up to high winds and even heavier snow. With all of the roads blocked off and completely buried underneath the mountains of snow, we were stuck inside our hotel (Fosshotel Núpar). Though the sun was shining for most of the day, many people woke...
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Today we further explored the history of songwriting by watching a documentary about Abbey Road Studios. After we watched some of that, we explored the school and the lighting booth to see the sound system in our school. After that, we had a zoom call with songwriter Claire Carruthers. We asked her questions about...
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May it please the court, on Cannoli Cream Tuesday, we learned to make cannoli cream using a technique to make the cream lighter by adding homemade whipped cream to the ricotta. We made the standard cannoli filling and one with lemon zest. It was a great success. We developed steep sturdy peaks in our...
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Today we spent four hours constructing our solar ovens with cardboard, styrofoam insulation, and aluminum foil. Unfortunately there wasn’t much sun today, so we couldn’t test them. We cut pieces of plexiglass using a score knife and broke them to the proper size to put on top of our solar ovens to prevent heat...
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Today we went to the Black Run Preserve. We were lead by Mr. John Volpa, who has been working with MFS’s Pine Barren trips for 10 years and taught us a lot about the history and science behind the Pine Barrens. We hiked about four miles, stopping frequently to learn new facts about the...
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Today, we started off by heading to the playscape to do some landscaping work. We got to spend time raking leaves and pulling weeds to make the playscape cleaner. After we finished cleaning, we got to play with the preschoolers and Prekindergarten kids on our newly cleaned playscape. Lots of the kids pitched in...
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On March 28th, the Arts and Entertainment Intensive Learning went to the Cunningham Piano Factory. The factory is located in Germantown and just across the street from Germantown Friends. Cunningham Piano Factory is the only piano factory within hundreds of miles. We learned a lot about the history of the factory, the restoration process...
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Guten Tag! Today we visited the city of Bamberg. In Bamberg, we began the day in the freezing weather with a tour of the city by our group tour guide, Claus. An interesting and sad part of the city were the commemorative plaques for victims of the Holocaust in front of their local homes....
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We started our day with a 6:45 am wake up. We went down for breakfast and had our usual Italian spread. At 8 am, we hopped on the bus after loading up all our suitcases. Most people slept deeply on the journey. We stopped in Cortona, an Italian town situated on the side of...
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The day started with a two-hour drive to the cottage belonging to Shakespeare’s wife, Anne Hathaway. After exploring the cottage, we were free to wander around the town of Stratford-upon-Avon. Some of the places that we visited included a Harry Potter store, a delicious fudge store, as well as a vintage store. Next, we...
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Today breakfast was at 8:00 am. We had French toast, egg, sausage, and hydrating drinks to get us ready for our hard work. We left the house at 9 and arrived at the worksite around 9:30. At the site, we made the cement using sand, rocks, and water. We poured the cement into the...
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Today, we left Amayuelas at 8 AM to go to Toledo after promptly eating breakfast — a great assortment of breads that one of our workshops made yesterday, cereal, and coffee— at 7:30 AM. We had a long bus ride till 12 PM, filled with talking, sleeping, and doing Jayden’s makeup. After getting lost...
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