Tom Sawyer

Last Saturday our home school co-op put on a little production of "Tom Sawyer". It was just a couple of simplified scenes, but the kids had worked on all aspects of producing a theater production to do it, so it was a great experience. Madelyn had the role of Becky Thatcher, Tom's friend. Here she has just finished telling Tom that his Aunt Polly was looking for him and he'd better get home, even though Huck is encouraging Tom to come fish with him.

All the scenery was painted by the kids, with a little adult help. Here Becky and Tom search in the cave for the treasure that they had overheard thieves discussing. Note the flying bat! The thieves are captured!
The whole cast, which was made up of all the eleven older kids in the co-op, along with Miss Kathy, the mom who hosted the co-op in her home and also directed the production of Tom Sawyer.