I felt alive today, truly happy teaching my kids and their friends and helping them discover and create and keep trying, even when it’s hard. I was born to teach and love kids. Today was the second meeting of the Sonoran Shakespeare Players and we worked on three big projects on three big tables in our house.
Station 1: Try writing with a quill pen and create an illuminated manuscript letter.
She loved it.
So did she.
This little boy will have done it all by the time he begins school. I love the “…and why not?” look on his face.
Station 2: Using an oatmeal container, popsicle sticks and tooth picks, construct a Globe Theater.
Paige and Emma re-created the balconies, stage, partial roof and entry with the Latin phrase meaning, “All the World’s a Playhouse” and drew Hercules carrying a globe on his shoulders.
Station 3: “Translate” and rewrite a speech from Hamlet from one of your favorite characters. Then draw your favorite scene.
This one took the most brain power and time. Wow, the kids did a great job, once they realized they didn’t have to understand every word, just the main ideas.
For our next meeting, we’ll have our two missing Players back from vacation and we’ll be able to finish reading the play aloud. The costumes are accumulating; we’re focused and oh, so dramatic.