trying something new – Page 7 – Intensive Learning @ MFS

Costa Rica: Planting trees with local children

March 22, 2014October 13, 2015Blog Editor

Day Two After breakfast at 7:30, we headed to the school to work with the children. When we got there, we were each assigned a child and we planted trees with them. We then helped the students to paint signs with the name of the tree and their name to place in front of...

Blacksmithing Day One: Getting the fires going

March 22, 2014October 13, 2015Blog Editor

Today we learned about the history and mission of the Harriton House and then got right to work getting the fires going and trying our hands at making hooks. All of the students jumped right in. On Monday, we will learn a few new techniques. Students have already started thinking about individual projects they...

Exploring Art: Enlivening the ruins

March 21, 2014October 13, 2015Blog Editor

Day One Today in our Exploring Art intensive learning trip we traveled to Fairmount Park in order to address the remains of a former home as a location for site-specific art. The structure was a mere ruin with visible entrances, however there were no doors or windows. Many street artists have taken advantage of...

Appalachian Trail: Spring butterfly

March 21, 2014March 9, 2016Blog Editor

Well, today was glamorous. The day started off with everyone filling up their reusable water bottles. We left in awesome SUVs for the Camden Children’s Garden and I, David, DJed the heck out of the ride. I accidentally changed songs when everyone got really into the music and after that almost had to walk...

First Day of Quilting!

March 21, 2014October 13, 2015Quilting

For the first day of quilting we mostly learned how to work the sewing machine and sew pieces of cloth together. We first learned to sew small scrap pieces of cloth together to understand how the machine worked. We all then attempted to sew a pillow. This took up the majority of our day....

Pine Barrens: Pines and old train lines

March 21, 2014October 13, 2015Pine Barrens

Day One Today the trip started off with a discussion of John McPhee’s Pine Barrens, where we all shared a chapter. We posed some questions about what our week might be like based on the information in the book. We then took a bus out to Carranza Memorial, observing the effects of controlled burns, which...

Habitat for Humanity: Twelve attempts to roll up a carpet, or, the value of a hard day’s work

March 21, 2014October 13, 2015Blog Editor

Day One For day one of our Habitat for Humanity Intensive Learning we traveled to the Burlington County Habitat for Humanity Restore. They were moving their offices to a new store on Rt. 38 and needed our help packing and loading their old office. We filled boxes and stacked them onto pallets to be...

Blacksmithing

March 10, 2014October 13, 2015Blog Editor

We will be learning the basics of coal forge blacksmithing. Pictures of the students work and the students working will be posted here along with descriptions of what we have done each day. ...