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The Front Porch Photos
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Handmade Crafts
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|  |  | | Handmade earrings by TD, age 12. | The first crocheted purse by JD, age 11. | The second crocheted purse by JD, age 11, made the next day!!
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| Camping |  |  |  | | The campsite at Stony Creek. | It was home for one night. | Sandcastle by D. She made a pyramid and some houses along a river. |
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| Making dill pickles with cucumbers from Eastern Market |   |
| Potatoes the kids grew and ate. |  |
| KF uses his artistic expertise to make a henna tattoo. |  |
| A photo of clouds JD thought were pretty. |  |
| A
Detroit Firefighter and his wife, a long time Front Porch supporter,
came by to share his Monopoly love. BB looks forward to the rematch. |  |
| Honey from the bees. | |
| Fishing at Lake Pontiac State Park on the Detroit Public Library's field trip. | |
| A sand flower made by TG. Swimming at the beach at Stony Creek. | |
| PlayDoh Cake by JD and TD. | |
| Reading race prizes for the top three winners. | |
| The sandcastle building contest on the last day of the summer program. |    |
| The kids painted T-shirts. |    |
| Making stop action movies with Lego |  |
| This is the swarm of their bees. It is the dark circular blob in the middle of the photo. |  |
| A rainbow over the The Porch. |  |
| The first two are clay "cakes" in a "Cake Boss" competition. The third photo is a play-doh man. |    |
| A house. |  |
| At the Franklin Branch of the Detroit Public Library for the Exotic Zoo presentation. |  |
| The
duck mom and babies at the Riverwalk. The kids were very interested.
The print is of one of the kids who laid on the warm pavement at the
bus stop after going in the fountain at the renaissance center. She was
excited that the tshirt design showed up. |   |
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conversation about the blood on the sidewalk and the police led the
kids to a discussion of DNA. So they got some DNA from an onion and put
it on slide and looked at it under a microscope. |   |
| The kids made pillows. |    |
| The kids painted boats. |   |
| Some of the bikes parked at a playground during a break on an 8 mile ride. |   |
Spring 2011
Doll making |  |  | | Monkey wearing a bikini by DG | Doll by IG |
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| Nature Activities On the Porch |  |  |  | Learning to be a beekeeper. JD bravely touches the bees.
Photo by TD | JD holds the bees who are making a honeycomb in the frame.
Photo by TD | The
expanded strawberry patch built by three girls who are longtime experts
at painting, hammering planting and using the drill. |
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| Tutoring at Wayne
Elementary School |  |  |  | | With homework time behind them, the first graders play chess... | and make bracelets at the afterschool program. | Proud of finished homework. |
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| At the
Winterblast, two sisters ice skated and snowshoed for the first time |    |
Tutoring at Wayne
Elementary School
After homework time was over, the first
graders learned to draw. | |
| Time
on the Porch |  |  |  |  | | Snowman | Ice
castle | After
one of a billion games of Life and playing the stock market in it, one
girl picks out her real stock hoping it will go up next week. She hopes
to win our little stock market game. | Pretend
birthday cake by JD and TD made of Play-doh, pipe cleaners and a paper
plate. |
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| Fall
2010 on the Porch |
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| Dress
up on the Porch. |
Shrinky
Dink necklace made by RW |
Shrinky
Dink necklace made by IG. She explained that Kitty got in a fight and
is blue like a Smurf. |
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| This is the
Front Porch's computer lab. The laptop and one child are under the
covered table. We can't have it out in the open because negative people
walking by may see it as an opportunity. Many teachers require kids to
type up their homework on the computer & do web research but
the
kids do not have one & they do not have transportation to the
library to use a computer. We used to have a computer lab at
the
now closed community center. We would like to have one again.
Please let us know if you can help us with this. |
A puzzle made on the Porch by JD. |
The
kids have started to learn about honey. They got a tour of the Front
Porch's hive. It is from the Sweet on Detroit Program from the Detroit
Agriculture Network. Then
they went to Earthworks
Urban Farm to help harvest the honey. Here JD scrapes the honey coming
off the pressed beeswax. They learned a lot from their volunteer time
there. |
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| 2010 Summer Program:
Raising the Monarch Butterflies and letting them go. |
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. |
Kids feeling the
butterfly 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Summer
program: Detroit Zoo polar bears and Front Porch kids. |
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| Summer
program: These are the airplanes the kids built after learning about
the science of how airplanes fly. |
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| One of the
kids taking with a Tuskegee Airman at Detroit City Airport. |
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| Summer
Program: They are in a race/treasure hunt for books at the local
library. |
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| Summer
Program: learning to sketch, reading and bike riding on the
Riverwalk. |
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| E.S. picked
up a milkweed bug. We are growing milkweed for the monarch caterpillars
that will arrive for the summer program. |
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| 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. |
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| This is a drawing of a car by
R.P. |
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| This is a drawing of a car and a
monster truck. K.T. |
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| After homework is done, kids play
a game of store at Homework Help at the local elementary school.
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| At Homework Help, one student
works with two tutors. She is learning about regrouping. |
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| Hope Community Garden - a
community garden near the Front Porch. |
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| T.H. plants some lettuce for her
school community service at Hope Community Garden in the neighborhood. |
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| R.W. fills a raised bed
with soil for her school community service at Hope Community Garden in
the neighborhood. |
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| Three
teenage girls, TH, IG and RW dissect a frog and identify his parts on
The Front Porch |
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| 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. |
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| T.H.
made this flower bouquet from hyacinths and pear blossoms from the
neighborhood. |
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| J.W.
is proud of her clay pizza. |
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| J.M. worked
for a long time on this necklace. |
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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. |
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| J.D. does her
science experiment to find out if foil or shortening is a better
insulator in ice water |
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| Paper doll made by T.H. at the
Detroit Institute of Arts after seeing the Avedon exhibit. |
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| some
of the Pumpkins the kids painted
on the Porch |
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| A Play-Doh camera and a Play-Doh
map of Michigan done on the Porch by JD. |
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| A
sidewalk drawing of a house by TH. |
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| September garden. |
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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. |
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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. |
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| The 1.5 mile walk to
Heilmann, the closest recreation center. |
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| The first potato the kids grew.
Soon, it was baked and eaten. |
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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. |
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| 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. |
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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. |
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| Books to choose from for partner
reading time. |
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| The first summer art project.
Backpacks made from old jeans by LJ and M.
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| 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. |
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| Summertime math:
multiplication bingo with prizes and cheat sheets. |
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| T made a sweet car from
K'nex. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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| 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. |
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| JD made
these snow hearts by pressing her feet into the snow and then spraying
them with food coloring. |
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| JD and her
sister TD made this snowman |
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| JD made
this snow angel and colored it with food coloring. |
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