Intensive Learning @ MFS
The World At Your Fingertips
By Yilin “We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.”— John Hope Franklin This morning, we had a very very early start at 5:45 a.m. to head to the airport, leaving the beautiful...
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3/27/24 By Reese & Meena For our second day in Washington, D.C., we traveled to the Smithsonian’s National Zoo with the goal of connecting the animals inside the zoo with this year’s theme of Intensive Learning, art and environment. There’s no way to really learn about art and the environment without knowing the true...
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Sky is clear! Range clear! Launch in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1! Upper School math teacher Larry Ottman leads the young rocketeers. When it’s a student’s turn to launch, they set up the rocket on the launcher and take the controls. Then, the safety protocols. They crane their necks to scan the sky, one...
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This morning the Upper School launched “June Week,” the much-anticipated adaptation of Moorestown Friends’ beloved Intensive Learning program, which was cancelled two years in a row due to the lengthy COVID-19 pandemic. Although the program will be a short version of IL, it promises to be no less sweet as MFS teachers share their...
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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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By Micaela, Julianna, & Kendall Today we started our last day of service in the town of Vega Alta. We quickly ate breakfast, which included french toast, eggs, and fresh fruit, and in high spirits headed to the work site. Today, we would be working on Ángel and Maria’s house. Ángel has been helping...
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By Courtney, Safia, & Jordan B Today we went to Villa Del Río in Vega Alta again, but this time we worked on Bolo’s home. We continued to make concrete and learned how to make columns. We had a group shoveling materials to make the concrete, a group shoveling the concrete into buckets, “cubos”...
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By Rebecca, Sam, & Kat Today we started our day with a lovely breakfast at Big Yellow House. Afterwards, we loaded up the bus and headed for the worksite in Villa Del Rio. There, we met Noel, Angel and William, who led the project. Sonia (and Calvin) did an excellent job translating for us...
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By Will, Jack, & Calvin This morning our excited group of 19 seniors, juniors, and sophomores ventured off to take on Puerto Rico. We all arrived at school around 5:30 a.m. and boarded our American Airlines flight at 8:40 a.m. The four hour flight was a breeze and we finally arrived in Puerto Rico...
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By Mya, Sonia, & Arianna Today, we learned all about each other and Puerto Rico before starting our trip tomorrow. We began the day by making some blueberry pancakes along with drinking some orange juice. After we ate, we researched different parts of Puerto Rico such as their history, fun facts, common language/phrases, the...
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Saturday, March 25 Today was our first official, full day in Cuba! During our first day here we worked in the church, doing different jobs. Some of us helped clean up by sweeping, cutting vegetables for dinner, and also doing construction. For the construction, we used a pulley system to hoist sand up...
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” … my recent experience with ProNica in Nicaragua had helped me to understand the concept of solidarity.” MFS teacher and Nicaragua trip leader Andrea Robinson blogged about her Intensive Learning experience on the ProNica blog: Moorestown Friends School Students and Casa del Niño...
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Today we visited a school in Chengdu called Dujiangyan yucai high school. We were welcomed by a banner hanging outside of their school and some students who were eagerly awaiting our arrival. The students we met were all juniors because the seniors had to study for their upcoming college entrance exams. After a tour...
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Today we woke up in the village to a nice breakfast. After breakfast, some of us played majhong while the others went on a hike and shopped in the streets. We had lunch at our hotel, and we discussed our plans for the school we will be visiting tomorrow. We practiced the songs and...
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