Presentation Night!

This week school ended for the year.

Yay!

So our school had a presentation night, with skits 

and performances.

Here Autumn is teaching all us dumb clucks

what a logical fallacy is.

Aiden is reading a paragraph of a story he wrote.

His teacher had her students work on 

looking up with facial expressions while 

they read and Aiden was hilarious!

Aiden was also in a musical story, playing 

a percussion instrument while the teacher read aloud

and was "Little John" in a Robin Hood play. 

Since I was directing the Robin Hood play, I couldn't 

really take pictures because most of the kids forgot 

their lines and where they were supposed to stand!

I have now directed 5 children's plays and sadly, 

the Robin Hood play was the first one to tank.

I guess the Lord needed to teach me some humility!!! 

This play below: "A British Parse Farce"

was a great success, however!

It was a combined British Literature (which I taught) 

and Grammar skit, wherein the teens had to be their 

favorite Brit Lit character while attempting to diagram 

the first sentence of the Declaration of Independence!

I'm sure the audience had no idea what they 

were talking about, but the kids were hilarious in their roles.

Asher was the Artful Dodger from Oliver Twist, Autumn 

was Bertie Wooster (see Jeeves behind in the back) from Jeeves and Wooster, 

and the other lad in the picture was Professor Higgins 

from Pygmalion.

We also had Peter Pan, Beowulf, Sherlock Holmes,

and the Mad Hatter! It was a hoot :) 

There was also a small performance of "The Three Little

Pigs" in Shakespearean language. (they copied it 

from the youtube video...look it up if you haven't seen it)

Asher was pig two. 

Lastly, (you can see why I'm so glad it's over)

each student made a display of all their 

school work, prizes being given to the best 

displays. I had thought my children did great on their 

displays until I got there and the competition blew them 

out of the water!!! Other people completely painted 

their boards, made themes, added scrapbook paper, etc. 

We'll work harder next year....maybe.