Intensive Learning @ MFS
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On day three of Songwriting IL we continued on our songs made with the refrains and started to add a melody behind them. Some people left the classroom to work in different rooms and hallways to record, and others stayed in the band room and worked with headphones on. After we did our melodies...
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Today we started the morning off with sharing our songs that we wrote yesterday, as well as giving critics and suggestions. Throughout the day, we worked on composing and matching instrumentals to our lyrics. For my music, I used Band Lab with the alternative pop genre as my inspiration. Later in the day, we...
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Creating the lyrics for my song enhanced my ability to completely understand how to make a “part” of a song and how much creativity and work goes into a small part. Overall, I felt as if today, we made a lot of progress toward creating our song. Today, we continued progressing through learning how...
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For our second day of IL we learned about refrains and how to use them in a song. With our new-found knowledge of refrains we began to create our own short “songs” using refrains within them. Everyone was working diligently on their songs, and we were told to think of a melody we wanted...
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During our first full day we got a basic understanding of Ohm’s Law and the relationship between voltage, current, and resistance. We built and explored wired breadboards and series and parallel circuits with resistors and light emitting diodes (LEDs). We learned how to solder wired circuits together as well as PCBs (printed circuit boards)....
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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 readingExploration: something that everyone desires, but only a few get to grasp. So many people aspire to spend even a fraction of their lives exploring places, ideas, memories, yet barely a handful of them find the lucky key that unlocks the time for exploration. Today, the key was handed to us, as well as...
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Wednesday, March 29 Today we woke up at 8:30 to eat breakfast and get started on the exciting day we had planned. After breakfast, we split into two groups. Most of our group went outside to the street in front of the church to unload a bus carrying 312 cases of Bibles for the...
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After yesterday’s trip to New York’s famous Chinatown, the Asian Cultures Intensive Learning group journeyed just across the river to Philadelphia’s own Chinatown to continue our study of East Asian culture. Since Philadelphia is so much of a closer trip than New York, we had time to begin our day with an in-class discussion...
Continue readingOn this last day of Quilting, we spent the day cleaning up and finishing up some projects. We saw a 7th grade Intensive Learning play. Afterwards, we went home with our mini individual projects, such as: pin cushions, pillows, etc. Our long week of hard work has finally come to a close....
Continue readingToday we switched groups. Half of us stayed back and repeated yesterday’s dog friendliness assessment of Moorestown and then kept working on their projects. The other half of the group went back to the Animal Adoption Center, but this time we went much earlier so we’d be able to help clean the kennels. We...
Continue readingTuesday, March 28 We started the day with breakfast as usual, which consisted of scrambled eggs, ham, guava juice, freshly brewed Cuban coffee, bread, butter, and peanut butter. They also provided a native fruit spread that included juicy mango, succulent pineapple, and tangy guava. As usual, they set out pots of hot milk and...
Continue readingWe spent most of our day using our sewing machines or hand stitching the binding onto our quilts. The pressing of fabrics and cutting of cotton also occurred at various points during our day. We were rewarded in the end with pretzels and Starbucks from Main Street....
Continue readingToday was our third day of quilting. We spent most of the time working on our fidget quilts. Using our newfound knowledge of sewing, we were able to finish most of our projects. Some people even started new quilts for themselves! Unfortunately, it was raining the majority of the day. Let’s just say, walking...
Continue readingToday at Bayshore was extremely productive. Upon our arrival we proceeded to remove the winter cover from the Meerwald. We removed the cover and took away the pipes holding it up. We then proceeded to paint a glossy white coat on the Meerwald’s cabin and rails. It was absolutely beautiful later in the...
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