Shakespeare Week

This week is all about Shakespeare (and a bit of maths and sounds thrown in)! So far we have learnt a great deal about the man himself and some of his famous plays. Ask us to finish the title of this famous tragedy; Romeo and...
What is the famous theatre called that Shakespeares plays were (and are now today, in a rebuilt version) performed in? what is his first name?

Our focus play is A Midsummer Night's Dream. It is full of funny and mischievous characters, fairies, magic spells, weddings and actors. 

We watched parts of a BBC production of the play and Miss Aitken read us part of the book (abridged for children). Mr Brown and Ms Vost the Art teachers also helped us create beautiful bunting and tissue paper flowers ready for our display all about the weddings in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Ms Vost had a box of beautiful clothes  which Miss Tranham helped us get dressed up in and pretend to be performers in a Shakespearean play. We learnt that in Shakespearean plays, boys usually played the girls parts because girls weren't allowed to be actors in those days!

Even though the language Shakespeare used is English, it is an old version that is tricky for us to understand. Nevertheless we had a good go and were able to translate some of the words and phrases in the play in to modern English. Do you know how many words Shakespeare created and are now part of the English language?