Welcome to Mr. Matlock’s Class 2012-2013 Colonial Days Performance April 4 at 9 am or April 5 at 1:45. We won! $701 raised to defeat childhood cancers! First place in the school! We have 28 students. Field Trips 4/19/13 Day Trip Star of India

Welcome to Mr. Matlock’s Class

2012-2013

Colonial Days Performance

April 4 at 9 am or

April 5 at 1:45.

We won! $701 raised to defeat childhood cancers! First place in the school!

We have 28 students.

Field Trips

4/19/13 Day Trip Star of India

Dear Parents,

The entire fifth grade will be having a musical performance reflecting music of the time from the early colonial period through the Revolutionary War. The length of the performance is about 60 minutes. The performance times for our class are:

1. Thursday, APRIL 4 from 9-10

2. Friday, APRIL 5 from 1:45 TO 2:45

COSTUMES: The students should wear colonial attire for BOTH PERFORMANCES and ALL DAY ON FRIDAY. Here are a few suggestions of basic costumes:

For girls: A dark colored long skirt, white blouse, white apron and if possible a white bonnet.

For boys: Dark colored knickers (rolled up pants with long e.g. soccer socks), white shirt, vest, and if possible a hat.

Costumes can be simple, or you can be as creative as you want.

On Friday, April 8, all classes will be participating in a half-day of colonial crafts representative of the pre-revolutionary war period. The students will rotate to various fifth grade classrooms throughout the morning.

In the afternoon, all students will have a colonial picnic. Each student should bring a “bucket lunch” which could be in a tin bucket or basket filled with foods that would be eaten in colonial times. Please don’t include any prepared or packaged foods and don’t use any baggies, tin foil, etc. Food was probably wrapped in cloth. People in colonial times ate a lot of meat, rolls, biscuits, muffins, pancakes, cream, and butter. They rarely ate raw vegetables and few people ate fruit. Sweet foods were made from maple sugar, maple syrup, or dried fruit. They also served jellies, jams, or sweet fruit sauces with their meat. For dessert, they at pies, puddings, tarts, and sometimes ice cream. A sample lunch might include meat, a roll or biscuit, and dried fruit wrapped in a cloth and put in a basket or bucket.

We’re looking forward to our colonial celebrations and hope to see you at the musical program.

Mr. Matlock

Web page for Women’s History http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0768442.html

Directions- http://www.ccps.org/chms/research/women/question.html

Web page for National Gallery of Art Faces and Places

http://www.nga.gov/kids/zone/facesplaces.htm

Books are online except Language Arts.

Science book is on the web- http://activities.macmillanmh.com/science/ca/index.html ,pick edition, scroll down to ose, put in username: casci05 , password: redwood

Social studies book is on the web- http://www.eharcourtschool.com/ need password student ID -first 13 letters of first and last name and last 2 digits of ID, password is last 5 digits of student ID.

Math book is online:

https://www-k6.thinkcentral.com/ePC/start.do

Username is first and last name followed by last 2 digits of ID number. Password is all digits of ID.

Explorer Game

http://ageofex.marinersmuseum.org/games/merchants/

Colonial assignments: click here

http://www.scholastic.com/teachdearamerica/design_colonial.htm

http://www.history.org/History/teaching/dayInTheLife/webactivities/dress/dress.cfm

With parent permission = http://www.history.org/history/teaching/dayinthelife/interact_role.cfm download necessary

Hubble building hand held model:

http://hubblesite.org/the_telescope/hand-held_hubble/

Useful student websites: