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Summer Program: The Monarch Butterflies
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Here they are in their cage. The cage was built by kids many years ago. The kids picked them up. The cage came off the butterflies and some wouldn't leave. The kids decided to see if they would eat cantaloupe - their fruit snack for the day. The butterflies weren't interested.
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The kids felt their wings. The butterflies didn't mind.
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The butterflies that wouldn't leave were transferred onto the butterfly bush. The kids had a bus to catch.The caterpillars hanging upside down before becoming chrysalises.Mating two days after they came out of the cocoon.
The caterpillars were ordered from http://www.monarchwatch.org.
Summer program: As part of the Detroit Public Library's Reading Club, the kids got to go to the Detroit Zoo. Here a skink had stuck his tongue out at the beverage.skink
Summer program:  Detroit Zoo polar bears and Front Porch kids.polarbear polar bear
Summer program: These are the airplanes the kids built after learning about the science of how airplanes fly.airplanesairplanes
Summer Program: They are in a race/treasure hunt for books at the local library.library
Summer Program: One little group of the kids waiting for the bus. We were always waiting for the bus, just hoping it would show up. We learned to get on whatever bus would show up and find our way home.  bus waiting
This is from the 3 x 3 foot strawberry patch next to the Porch.
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P.P. harvested this bag of berries.E.S. is asking if this one is ready. She says they don't taste anything like the ones from the store. E.S. and her strawberries.
E.S. picked up a milkweed bug. We are growing milkweed for the monarch caterpillars that will arrive for the summer program. milkweed bug
Two girls suggested they roll out a long piece of paper and paint outside near The Porch. 
This is a drawing of giant corn dog and a girl by D.
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These are D's hands.
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This is a drawing by I.G. of  the earth, a heart and the brown dog is hers.
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This is a drawing of a dinosaur by A.B.dino
This is a drawing of a car by R.P. car
This is a drawing of a car and a monster truck. K.T. car
After homework is done, kids play a game of store at Homework Help at the local elementary school. store
At Homework Help, one student works with two tutors. She is learning about regrouping. homeworkhelp
Hope Community Garden - a community garden near the Front Porch.garden
T.H. plants some lettuce for her school community service at Hope Community Garden in the neighborhood.garden
R.W.  fills a raised bed with soil for her school community service at Hope Community Garden in the neighborhood.garden
Three teenage girls, TH, IG and RW dissect a frog and identify his parts on The Front Porchfrog
One youth is working on his science project  at after school homework help at the local elementary school.  The middle schooler who was helping, I.G., decided to see what lotion looked like under the microscope. microscope
T.H. made this flower bouquet from hyacinths and pear blossoms from the neighborhood.boquet
J.W. is proud of her clay pizza.pizza
J.M. worked for a long time on this necklace. necklace
J.W. made this necklace, then changed the pizza into a half-eaten pizza and made this bracelet.
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J.M. made these designs from clay.jw clay
J.D. does her science experiment to find out if foil or shortening is a better insulator in ice waterscience project
Paper doll made by T.H. at the Detroit Institute of Arts after seeing the Avedon exhibit.  paper doll
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some of the Pumpkins the kids painted on the Porchpumpkinpumpkinpumpkinpumpkin
A Play-Doh camera and a Play-Doh map of Michigan done on the Porch by JD. cameramichigan
A sidewalk drawing of a house by TH.   house chalkhouse
September garden.green tomato  sunflower
The first tomato of the year - finally - given to the grandma next door.

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August night on the Porch. Old friends returned, made friendship bracelets, and played jump rope.  JD, LH, TH,  and SD. braceletbraceletbraceletbeacelet
Their last field trip of the summer, just before they responded to the lifeguard's bullhorn telling them it was time for them to go with a group rebellion: they told us they were never going home from Stony Creek.
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Digging for fossils at the zoo's dinosaur exhibit.  zoo
The  1.5 mile walk to Heilmann, the closest recreation center.  the walk
The first potato the kids grew. Soon, it was baked and eaten. potato
A Madagascar Cockroach at the Youth Day on Belle Isle.
ES holds the cockroach herself.
 
       
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A few of the kids on their way home from Chandler Park Aquatic Center. They are starting on their 2 mile walk after swimming. walk
One of the teen volunteers, TH, helps DJ pick up the fish he just caught with her help at the Spring Valley Fish Farm in Dexter, MI.  fishing
One of the teen volunteers, TH, and her partner JD, on the DDOT bus trying to write down more street names than the other kids in a competition Ms. Karen arranged for them.
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Bowling at the Garden Bowl downtown.  bowling
Books to choose from for partner reading time. books
The first summer art project. Backpacks made from old jeans by LJ and M. backpackbackpack
LH helped to get the fabric paint ready for the summer program. She and IG made this fine piece of modern art from the goo in the dried up bottles.  fabricpaint
Summertime math: multiplication bingo with prizes and cheat sheets.  bingo
T made a sweet car from K'nex. car
While painting a picture, E.S.  got a little tempera paint on her hand. She was then inspired to paint her arms. Another kid said she looked like a superhero.
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A house built by using almost all the building blocks by JD and TD.   more legoslegos
The new raised beds. The kids chose to plant broccoli, collards, white raspberries, red raspberries, tomatoes, radishes, carrots, sunflowers, and hot  peppers.  The old strawberry bed was kept and is full of green strawberries. Photos by A.C. Age 16.
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Three of  many science projects children got help with for school: the floating egg (density) for I.G., earthquakes and buildings T.D., and fire extinguishers (acids and bases) J.D. science  sci   sci
An Afternoon on the Porch:
Three school science projects, one homework math ditto about money, learning about magnets, some community service from L.H. who is 12 years old, and bike riding on a pretend street made from chalk on the sidewalk.
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Beginning the 2009 Garden with a new raised bed covered in glitter.  garden
TD was studying fossils at school and thought that this leaf looked like it had made a fossil in the ice under the playground swings.  leaf fossil
JD made these snow hearts by pressing her feet into the snow and then spraying them with food coloring. snowhearts
JD and her sister TD made this snowman snowman
JD made this snow angel and colored it with food coloring. snowangel
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