Shakespeare Fair-again!

Here are the pictures from the Shakespeare Fair I mentioned in in a post a couple weeks ago.

The royal goblets on the royal table.

Getting ready to have two of the students coronations. From the left: My teacher Sister H, Rachel (who is about to become Queen), me, Emma, and Dante (who is about to become King)

Rachel and me.

Thank you Marianne for letting me use some of her pictures!

Baby Birds

This picture is from a couple of years ago, but I saw a Gold Finch (maybe it was one of these baby's!) this morning and it reminded me of this picture. I have a lot more good pictures of Gold Finch's, maybe later I'll post them.

OK, here's another picture:


Can you see the baby bird's beak? The mother is feeding him.

Books, Books Books!

I love to read! My favorite kind of books are Fantasy, but I love any kind of book. History, Non-fiction, Science fiction... I love books!

Last Saturday I finished reading the Harry Potter books, and I loved them. My favorite was the last one, but I liked all of them. If you saw one of my previous post on Shakespeare, you'll have noticed that last month I read A LOT of Shakespeare plays. I enjoy reading Shakespeare, and now that I've read so much of it (but not nearly as much as my Shakespeare teachers) I understand it pretty well. Another book that I listened to last month was Uncle Toms Cabin. I had to read or listen to it for a Civil war class I'm taking through my home-school group. I really liked Uncle Toms Cabin, and I thought it was a very good clasical book. It took me about three weeks to listen to it on and off.

Here is a list of [some] of my favorite books. They're not really in order, just as I think of them:)

The Book of Mormon

The Lord of the Rings (all of them)

The Hobbit

Narnia (all of them)

Harry Potter (all of them)

The Dark is Rising (Series, all of them)

Fablehaven (all of them)

The Mysterious Benedict Society (all of them)

Tresure Island

Watership Down

The Lost World

Eight Cousins

Macbeth

The Wizard of OZ

Half Magic

Magic by the Lake

Knights Castle

The Thyme Garden

A Wrinkle in Time

A Wind in the Door

A Swiftly Tilting Planet

Uncle Toms Cabin

The Freedom Factor

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Peter and the Starcatchers

Under the Lilacs

Journey to the Center of the Earth

School Stuff

I decided that for a Personal Progress Project I would do a project involving schoolish things. (Personal Progress is a program for girls at my church ages 12-18. It a program that has different "values" such as Faith, Knowledge, and Virtue. Each value has a set of projects you can do, and you can also make up some of your own if you want to.) I thought for a project I would would blog about different home-school classes I have taken in the past year or to. I think I'll put it under the value Knowledge. I will have specific label for all of the post about school and classes, but I don't know what it will be yet. I hope you enjoy them!

Queen Me

I'm a Queen!
A Shakespeare Queen to be exact. Once a week, I have a home-school school that I go to. It is normal school hours, and I get home work every week. One of the classes is a Shakespeare class, where we read, study, and learn about Shakespeare's plays. One thing that is optional, is to read, watch or listen to 17 unabridged plays by Shakespeare. I finished all 17 last week! After we read, watch or listen to 17 plays we have a "coronation" and become come a King or Queen. In February, we have a Shakespeare Fair, where we have a performance from the older home school acting class. We also have a modernised Shakespearean diner, and all of the Kings and Queens sit at a special table and get served by the two Shakespeare teachers and all the kids who did not do 17 plays. I think that this year, every one of our 20 Shakespeare class students finished 17 plays, or will have finished them by the Fair which is this Saturday. I'm exited for it! I'll post pictures wen I get them.

Here is the list of all the plays I have watched, read or listened to from September 2009 to February this year:

1. A Midsummer Nights Dream- Watched(BBC)
2. A Midsummer Nights Dream- Read
3. The Taming of the Shrew- Watched(BBC)
4. The Taming of the Shrew- Read
5. The Tempest- Watched(BBC)
6. As You Like It- Watched(BBC)
7. The Merchant of Venice- Read
8. As You Like It- Listened
9. Romeo and Juliet-Read
10. Romeo and Juliet-Listened
11. Romeo and Juliet-Watched(BBC)
12. A Midsummer Nights Dream-Listened
13. Macbeth-Read
14. Macbeth-Listened
15. As You Like It-Read
16. Twelfth Night-Read
17. Twelfth Night-Listened

Did I mention I have a sister?

This afternoon after church, I was in the kitchen cleaning off the table when my sister M-7 called from the Family Room "Hey Larkin, come here and watch me do something not very amazing! Come any way" I said ok and walked in. She was standing in front of our Wii Fit board holding an empty wrapping paper tube. (She was wearing an old tee shirt that says "Ireland" that used to be mine and is much to big for her, Shorts, white tights, and her ballet church shoes) She then slowly walked across the Wii board. (If you have ever used one of these, you'll know that they are about 1' by 1 1/2' large. Not exactly the hardest thing to walk across:) When she was done (it took her about 15 seconds by the way) she said "look, I just walked across a type rope!"

My Crazy Brothers

Unless you know me well in real life, probably all you know about my brothers is that I have two, they are younger then me, and that they like discovering big weird bugs. Well, I thought I would tell a little more about them and tell about something funny one of them said this morning. My mom doesn’t like to give real names on Internet, so I'll call them C.12 and P.10, because those are they're initials and there ages. Well anyway, here is the funny story. It has been raining a lot here for San Diego area, and it has been really windy. My brothers were sitting on one of the couches in our living room with there faces up against the window watching the rain. I was sitting on the couch right next to the one they were doing school work. P.10 was eating something white from a spoon, but both C.12 and I couldn't tell what he was eating. C.12 asked him what he was eating, and he said… mayonnaise. I looked up and barely was able to say mayonnaise!?! On a spoon!!! We were both staring at him horrified when my mom called from the kitchen "He is not, its rice pudding." which luckily, it was. P.10 had been hiding the plate with the pudding on it so we couldn't see it, and I think he thought of saying it was mayonnaise when we asked. I think that the thing scarier then him saying he was eating mayonnaise off a spoon, was that I believed him. Which also proves he might be the kind of person who might do something like that. After all, he does love lots and lots of mayonnaise on his sandwiches.
After the above conversation, we all had som rice pudding. In this picture C.12 is holding his own plate of rice pudding.