Intensive Learning @ MFS
The World At Your Fingertips
Today was the service day for our Intensive Learning at Moorestown First Baptist Church Food Pantry. At 8:30 in the morning, we had a brief meeting at the field house discussing our plan for the day with Mrs. Barna and Mrs. Pande. Our plan was to bake cookies and brownies and attach appreciative notes...
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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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Our first day of Arts and Entertainment took us to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. After an overview of the trips ahead for next week, we left school at 10:15 am and arrived at the museum shortly after. We checked in and quickly split into groups to explore all the different exhibits! The museum...
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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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Students had the choice of volunteering at the United Methodist Community of Collingswood, or helping St. Mary’s Episcopal Church of Haddon Heights prepare for the local March of Our Lives, which it is co-sponsoring tomorrow. Student bloggers weigh in on each activity. United Methodist Community of Collingswood Today we went to the UM...
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We started off our day with making a stop at Wawa to fuel for the adventure ahead. We met Chelsea Jackson from the Interfaith Center of Philadelphia for our service component with CosaCosa at the Alexander K. McClure Elementary School. We looked at the beautiful murals that the graduating fifth grade class has made...
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Today our group got to know each other through community building games. We had fun working on non-verbal communication skills such as eye contact and sharing stories from our lives. Then the students broke into their assigned groups and did research on the various communities we will be visiting in Philadelphia next week. After...
Continue readingMarch 31, 2017 On our last day in Cuba, we visited a beautiful farm in the small town of Alcalá, about an hour and a half away from Holguín. Getting to this farm was probably the most challenging part of the day as our tour bus could not drive through a patch of fertilizer...
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This Intensive Learning taught me a lot about the Camden community. Moving forward with my volunteer time going back to Camden is a good possibility. I really enjoyed volunteering at the soup kitchen and seeing all the grateful people and how happy someone can be, despite being in the position they are. I would...
Continue readingThis week we went to a lot of places where people were really in need and we helped them by donating food and clothes, serving them breakfast and lunch and simply giving them someone to talk to. The two places that impacted me the most were the Cathedral Food Pantry, which we went to one...
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Today we woke up early to practice an energizing vinyasa flow. As part of the last practice we were encouraged for one song to let go of everything and to be free as we danced around the room. Afterwards we headed to breakfast to enjoy our last meal together, homemade yogurt and grains and...
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Today we started with an intense vinyasa class that had a lot of ab work in it. After breakfast, we made mala necklaces/bracelets with the full 108 beads (one = wholeness, zero = emptiness, eight = infinity, plus a lot of other reasons for the number 108) to use as a meditation tool. Then we...
Continue readingExcursión MFS filled the hallways with the wonderful smells of homemade tamales, flan cake, guacamole, and churros cookies today. We cooked a feast! After a wonderful week with an enthusiastic group of students, we sat and enjoyed one another over a delicious meal....
Continue readingWe made sandwiches for distribution at Cathedral Food Pantry on Market Street. We ate lunch at CK Cafe, a social enterprise project through Cathedral Kitchen, where MFSers frequently help out. We also did some work at the Anna Sample House through Volunteers of America....
Continue readingToday we started off with a vinyasa practice with awesome music to wake everyone up. After breakfast, we worked on making some yoga-inspired jewelry. Then, we had a lecture on the levels of listening (ignoring, pretending, selective, attentive, and empathic), which we followed by empathically listening to each other in small groups. To connect...
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