It is no small task keeping 5th Graders occupied, engaged, and productive during the last few weeks before Winter Break! You have to dig deep into the bag of tricks! So excited to able to join in with Focused on Fifth to get some ideas to help save my sanity:)! So being an out-of-the-box history nerd, I came up with a way to mix in Holiday traditions with Social Studies! I have learned tons of new strategies during my gifted endorsement class and I had a brainstorm on the way home last night! Today I used a Task Rotation based on learning styles (Mastery, Understanding, Inter-Personal, and Self-Expressive). I have been using this strategy often this year with note-taking and it was fun to put a twist on it with stations. I plan to go more in depth with these in future posts. Students were given this Task List which they started today and will finish Monday. Task Rotations Mastery Task (FACTS): Students analyzed primary source documents involving Christmas during the Civil War time period. I found a wonderful resource on Teachers Pay Teachers from Bring Lit On. This was my sneaky, fun way of fitting in test review! Since … Continue reading Holiday History Hop Task Rotations