5 x 5 for 5th Grade
5 Vocabulary
1. Deciduous: Latin "to fall", trees that lose their leaves every fall (maple, birch, oak)
2. Coniferous or "evergreen": cone-bearing tree (pine, fir)
3. Tannenbaum: German word for Christmas tree
4. Saint Nicholas Tag: A Dutch holiday celebrated on December 5th and 6th, where young children put their shoes (clogs) out for St. Nicholas to come put candy in them
5. Saint Nicholas/Santa Claus/Kris Kringle: Santa Claus is Dutch for Saint Nicholas and Kris Kringle is German for Santa Claus
5 Details/Facts
1. Romans celebrated winter solstice with a feast called Saturnus.
2. Saturnus was the god of agriculture.
3. One of the presents the Romans gave each other for Solstice were lamps to light the houses.
4. The puritans band Christmas in New England.
5. The Christmas tree market was "born" in 1851.
5 Sentences
1. A german Christmas Song is like we have O' Christmas Tree they have O' Tannenbaum
2. Christmas trees don't loose their leaves which makes them Coniferous but trees that do loose their leaves make them Deciduous.
3. Mom thought deciduous described trees that do loose their leaves.
4. My friend from school, Tiffany, celebrates Saint Nicholas Tag.
5. Saint Nicholas is what Franz calls Santa Claus, I call him Santa, and in the play we call him Kris Kringle.
5 Questions
1. What is the German translation for "Silent Night"? A: "Stille Nacht" is the correct translation.
2. What do German children leave out on St. Nicholas Tag? A: SHOES!
3. Is December 21st or the Winter Solstice the longest or shortest day of the year? A: Shortest Day longest night
4. What starts happening in Maine to the planet Earth and our days on the day after the Winter Solstice? A: We get closer to the sun and start gaining daylight
5. Why do people bring evergreens indoors at Christmas time? A: As a reminder that spring will be coming again.
5 Math
1. Write out the forms for the fraction ¼: percent, whole number, decimal in tenths: 25% 25 .25
2. If I say "a quarter to noon," what time am I referring to? A: time "15 minutes till noon"
3. You want to buy a shirt that costs $20.00 and is on sale for 25% off. How much is the shirt on sale? A: 5 dollars off price: 15 dollars
4. 873 x 6 = 5,238
5. Pull up the calculator on the computer. What is 100 / 3? A: 33.333…
Bonus Question: How do you write that in %? A: 33 %
Activities
Music lesson—worked on Annie audition
Art Lesson—painted glass for present
Crafts—painted ornaments and science project
Christmas Stories & Traditions: The Christmas Tree
German Christmas Carols
O Christmas Tree - O Tannenbaum
Two English Versions
There are many different English versions of the German "Tannenbaum" song. Here are two poetic English translations, both by authors unknown. See more about the history of this German Christmas carol below.
O Christmas Tree | O Christmas Tree | |
Follow Link and Listen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LcKKZucaig
Origins of Christmas Tree
The Egyptians were part of a long line of cultures that treasured and worshipped evergreens. When the winter solstice arrive, they brought green date palm leaves into their homes to symbolize life's triumph over death.
The Romans celebrated the winter solstice with a fest called Saturnalia in honor of Saturnus, the god of agriculture. They decorated their houses with greens and lights and exchanged gifts. They gave coins for prosperity, pastries for happiness, and lamps to light one's journey through life.
Centuries ago in Great Britain, woods priests called Druids used evergreens during mysterious winter solstice rituals. The Druids used holly and mistletoe as symbols of eternal life, and place evergreen branches over doors to keep away evil spirits.
Late in the Middle Ages, Germans and Scandinavians placed evergreen trees inside their homes or just outside their doors to show their hope in the forthcoming spring. Our modern Christmas tree evolved from these early traditions.
Legend has it that Martin Luther began the tradition of decorating trees to celebrate Christmas. One crisp Christmas Eve, about the year 1500, he was walking through snow-covered woods and was struck by the beauty of a group of small evergreens. Their branches, dusted with snow, shimmered in the moonlight. When he got home, he set up a little fir tree indoors so he could share this story with his children. He decorated it with candles, which he lighted in honor of Christ's birth.
The Christmas tree tradition most likely came to the United States with Hessian troops during the American Revolution, or with German immigrants to Pennsylvania and Ohio, adds Robson.
But the custom spread slowly. The Puritans banned Christmas in New England. Even as late as 1851, a Cleveland minister nearly lost his job because he allowed a tree in his church. Schools in Boston stayed open on Christmas Day through 1870, and sometimes expelled students who stayed home.
The Christmas tree market was born in 1851 when Catskill farmer Mark Carr hauled two ox sleds of evergreens into New York City and sold them all. By 1900, one in five American families had a Christmas tree, and 20 years later, the custom was nearly universal.
Christmas tree farms sprang up during the depression. Nurserymen couldn't sell their evergreens for landscaping, so they cut them for Christmas trees. Cultivated trees were preferred because they have a more symmetrical shape then wild ones.
Six species account for about 90 percent of the nation's Christmas tree trade. Scotch pine ranks first, comprising about 40 percent of the market, followed by Douglas fir which accounts for about 35 percent. The other big sellers are noble fir, white pine, balsam fir and white spruce.
St. Nicholas Tag December 6th
Saint Nicholas
Early in the Advent season celebrate a feast that has been popular for centuries in Christian countries, especially in Northern Europe. In our over-commercialized society, this holiday gives us a good "teaching moment" to remind children that Jolly Santa Claus, is, in fact, Saint Nicholas, a fourth century bishop of the city of Myra in what is now Turkey.
Saint Nicholas was renowned for his great kindness and his generous aid to those in distress. Among the kind and miraculous acts attributed to him are saving three young girls from prostitution by secretly providing them with dowries, raising three murdered boys from the dead, and saving sailors caught in stormy seas. For these reasons, he is considered the patron saint of children, unmarried girls, and sailors, among others.
Traditional celebrations of Saint Nicholas Day in Northern Europe included gifts left in children's shoes (the origin of our American Christmas stockings). Good children receive treats - candies, cookies, apples and nuts, while naughty children receive switches or lumps of coal. Sometimes coins were left in the shoes, reminiscent of the the life-saving doweries the saint provided. Today - especially in families of German extraction - children still put a shoe outside their bedroom doors on the eve of Saint Nicholas Day, and expect to find candy and coins or small gifts in their shoe on December 6th.
In some households the father of the family may dress up as Saint Nicholas on the eve of his feast. He comes in, sometimes with his sidekick, Krampus or Black Peter, and helps each child examine his conscience. He admonishes the bad and rewards the good. If your family enjoys theatrics, this is a wonderful opportunity early in Advent to inspire children to amend their ways in preparation for the coming King. (Your family might get together with other families with young children and celebrate together.)
Cookies: We've done a basic math lesson in baking cookies and a general lesson on how baking uses chemistry. Today we will talk about budgeting & baking by calculating the cost per cookie of baking at home vs. purchasing packaged cookies.
After working through all of our math we calculated that it cost us approximately $0.14 a cookie to bake 2 dozen.
Rehearsal (every night this week until almost 10 pm) & skating
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