"This falls out better than I could have devised..."

...says King Oberon to Puck in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. I could not agree more when I think of how the children performed last week in their production. They had their parents rolling in the aisles and performed with such confidence it was amazing. Most importantly, they had a ball together - makes me remember why a play is named as such.

After all was said and done, we asked them why we study Shakespeare in fifth grade. Here is some of their thinking: "to give us self confidence," "so we can learn lessons to life because that's what all his messages were," "we can learn writing skills from him," "to expand our learning," " he wrote so cool and you really need to know that type of writing," and "so we can experience the greatness of William Shakespeare."

One of them said, "Shakespeare is the best thing that happened to me." LOVE IT.

Thanks to Carolyn, Chuck, and Dave for cheering them on and for my colleague Steve for the pictures in the album below.

Shakespeare 2009

Finally, thanks to Carolyn for her pics - they are equally as precious, but I couldn't figure out how to steal them from your site to get them on the blog!!!