The Best Of PA

 Elly has been blessed with a beautiful voice.  And seriously people, it's not just me with all my motherly admiration.  I have had people approach me and tell me she has such a clear beautiful voice. She has a natural gift my almost 8 year old.  And so we know another young lady in our church who is equally as blessed start giving Elly voice lessons a few weeks ago.  She loves it!  And look what her teacher Mrs. Cecliy made!! Awesome!! Sent from my LG G3, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone

Our acting crew In the middle of a scene Today was our last day of camp.  I am so happy with how everything turned out. And can now take a sigh of relief.  Tomorrow we all meet up for "Shakespeare For Kids" play.  But this is what we did for our last day: Day 4 of camp: Human Tic Tac Toe 1) Play Human Tic Tac Toe.  It was a review game of all we learned the previous days before Goofy picture 2) Set Up our Stage Props and have a Dress Rehearsal.  The kids acted out the scenes where King Oberon puts the love potion in Queen Titiana's eyes and Puck puts the love potion in Lysanders' eyes.  Then we see Hermia wake up asking where Lysander went, Lysander waking up and seeing Helena, tells her he loves her.  Puck turns Nick Bottom into a donkey. Queen Titiana also awakes and beholds Nick Bottom the donkey and proclaims her love.  The kids REALLY enjoyed the acting!!  What a great way to end camp!! More Human Tic Tac Toe: With Shakespeare Triv

Out curtain backdrop Well if Shakespeare Camp wasn't fun enough already, my friend Anna take Wednesday and really piled on the fun!  This is what we did day 3: The Book Anna used 1) Went over all of lines again in song form with hand motions (Skip to my Lou) "I know a bank, Where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips, And the nodding violet grows, Quite overcanopied, With luscious woodbine, With sweet muskroses, And with Eglantine" Hayzel really tried to help out! 2) Anna gave us a lesson on the Theater and how Will Shakespeare got into writing and acting and creating a theater with friends.  She showed us pictures and quizzed us. 3) Craft Time: Then we set to it and got to creating props: Cardboard Trees and curtain backdrop to paint!  It was a blast and impressive!  The kids also colored woodland animals and cut them out to go on our backdrop and trees. finished product 4) Snack Time: We had apples, dip and nuts.  In honor of th

Elly making her fairy wings For our second day of Shakespeare Camp we did the following: These kiddos are ready for anything! 1) Review our Shakespeare lines in song form (Skip to My Lou), but also added these lines: "Quite overcanopied,  with luscious woodbine, With Sweet Muskroses, And with Eglantine" 2) Then we sat down on blankets by a nearby tree (me on a chair) and I read to them the kids version of "A Midsummer Nights Dream."  It was the Shakespeare Can be Fun version by Louis Burdett.  It is great!  I read in funny voices, act it out and ask questions every 2 pages.  They were all very engaged!  And I take a break half way through to play a game. 3) We played Shakespeare Jeporady: Combined the kids into 2 groups  Wing Making Table 4) Craft Time and Face Painting!  We made leaf crowns, paper plate wings and decorated water gun swords.  Did more face painting. 5) Break!  Let the kids play tag and run around for 15 minutes

  Hayzel and friend This week is Shakespeare Camp!  I have been hosting and organizing Summer Camps for five years now.  Since basically my kids were so young they could not truly appreciate it.  But that is alright because I love doing it and learn how to throw a camp together a little better each year.    In the past we have done different themes: Native Americans, Little House on the Prairie, Around the World, Science Experiments and this year Shakespeare.  The camp lasts four days and on the fifth day this year we will attend a local university to watch a kids version of Mid Summer Nights Dream.  I will tell you the day by day version of our camp in individual posts.  Today we will go over Monday.    Creating our Medival Poems Monday:   Review Our Lines in Song Form.  We are memorizing some lines from Mid Summer Nights Dream.  I set it to song (Skip to my Lou) and hand motions.   "I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding vi

Went to the carnival tonight.  The girls went on a few rides and we got ice cream.  We went with our friends the Boswells. Then we saw the most AMAZING fireworks.  They were set to music and they were INTENSE!!!  Seriously very Cool. Sent from my LG G3, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone

We are prepping for a canoeing, camping trip this August.  Little Hayzel is too small to truly enjoy it so grandparents will watch her.  This evening we went with Elly and Brinley for an hour and a half.  The Allreds helped us on our first family canoe trip ever. It was fun. Brinley was pretty scared but it was our first time so I suppose that could be expected.  All in all it was good fun!   Sent from my LG G3, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone

Well our picnic went out with a BANG!!  Family and friends came for food and games....games such as.... -Seed spitting Contest (Cherries) -Pie eating Contest -Revolutionary War Trivia -Folding a Flag Correctly (without letting it tough the ground) we had 3 military veterans there -Face Painting -Horse Shoes -Ping Pong -Croquet -Sparklers -Prizes I LOVE to plan a party and get in some learning at the same time!! more pictures to come.... Sent from my LG G3, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone

Well in June we managed to: 1) see a Rapunzel play 2) go on a pontoon boat ride 3)visit a lavender farm 4) participate in a one day science camp 5) have a poetry tea party with frienda 6) have a Fathers Day meal with Lawracys 7) visit Grandma Cooper and cousins at Cabelas and Cracker Barrel 8) have pioneer planning meeting with friends and girls got to make fruit loop necklaces there. Elly and Danny joined the church choir. Elly has a beautiful voice and we are trying to share her strenghthen and share her talent.  None of that hiding it in the ground.☺