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The Front Porch Photos
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Featured Photos
 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 |    |
| A Play-Doh camera and a Play-Doh map of Michigan done on the Porch by JD. |   |
| A sidewalk drawing of a house by TH. |   |
| September garden. |   |
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 Aqautic 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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