Day Five We spent our last day at the Harriton House completing projects. Some students finished turning wooden handles for their work while others finished bracelets, canes, etc. Justin Brandon joined us for part of the morning and tried his hand at making a hook. When we returned to MFS for sports, we helped...
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Exploring Art: Barren Reflections
Today our Exploring Art group spent our time in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey. After we arrived in the Pine Barrens and had a quick tour of the lake, students began working on their individual or group projects. Regardless of the 30 degree weather, we were able to get a lot of unique...
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Exploring Art: Synergies
Today everyone worked on completing a project for tomorrow’s trip to the Pine Barrens. These projects consisted of creating either an abstract or realism sculpture. Some people worked together, others chose to work alone. The students were offered various options on the type of sculpture they could create, or there was the option to...
Continue readingOur Final Day in Paris: Au Revoir!
On our sixth and final day, we started off by going to a science museum. Our favorite exhibits were the planetarium and the optical illusions. After that, we traveled by Metro to the Montmartre. After walking up a copious amount of steps, we made it to the top. We were given time to explore...
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La Mesquita de Córdoba o La Catedral de Córdoba
Today we traveled to Cordoba. After we unpacked at the hotel, we began to explore the city. We then went to eat tapas. Tapas are a family styled way of eating meals, where everyone shares the food given to each other. We enjoyed a variety of different Spanish dishes, some with seafood and others...
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Scottsdale: Goodyear Ballpark and Old Town
After a spirited game last night against the top-rated lacrosse team in Arizona, the team worked out this morning for a few hours at the hotel fitness center, then … We all headed out to Goodyear Ballpark to watch the Texas Rangers take on Mr. Hager’s beloved Cleveland Indians. Too bad for Mr. Hager,...
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Exploring Art: Lines and Tides
Today we spent the day at Ocean City, NJ. The weather was not ideal; however, we prepared and had back up clothing thanks to Mrs. Edmund’s winter clothes container. Originally, we planned to install our artwork and create projects for 4 hours but the weather cut that number in half. While baring the cold,...
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Exploring Art: Paper People
Today, the focus was on preparing for our adventures to Ocean City that awaits us tomorrow. We began with a slideshow, and after that started construction of our sculptures we will install on the beach. Some people built sculptures and some people built tools with which to create sand drawings. After that, we headed...
Continue readingBlacksmithing: Start the fires, make a fork
Day Two We returned to the Harriton House today. Our first task was to help clean up the grounds a little due to all of the branches that came down over the winter. Then we set to work getting the fires started. The groups had more success getting the coal burning today. Our...
Continue readingBye London, Bonjour Paris!
We had an early start this morning. We had to be out of the hotel by 5:00 am (1 am at home!) to catch our 7:30 train to Paris! The train was about 2 hours long and 30 of those minutes we were under water crossing the channel. The train reached 186 kph! Once...
Continue readingMulticultural Philadelphia: African-American history
Day Two We began the day with a riveting talk about the African-American history of Philly thanks to our entertaining tour guide Ernest. He talked about how African-American women and children were significant to the history of Philadelphia, how Quakers came about, and how Pennsylvania came about. He talked about William Penn, and his...
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New Mexico: Getting to know Santa Fe
Day One Arrival 8 pm: view of the farms and desert on the way west, took a really cute bus for an hour heading to Santa Fee from the airport. Everybody went to bed really soon after the long plane and bus rides. After everybody had breakfast by 8 am before we walked into...
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Exploring Art: Enlivening the ruins
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...
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Exploring Art
This Intensive Learning year our group will be traveling to local destinations to create ephemeral art that relates to the environment in which we are standing–from improv and street art to using trees to draw. Our three trips will include Philadelphia, Pakum Pond in the Pine Barrens and the beaches in Ocean City, NJ....
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