November 5th-10th is a week that brings us tons of Election Day historical happenings! This week I didn’t do an IGTV episode but I am bringing you events for each day of the week! How am I using these in my 5th grade classroom you ask? Well each day after morning work, our routine is to do 2 GoNoodle clips and then watch a Flocabulary.com unit before our read aloud. If possible, I try to pick one related to an event in history that happened on that day. I literally take 5 minutes to tell what events happened on that day and I have a bulletin board in the corner where I write the events with a dry erase marker. If I can tie in an event with our social studies lesson later I do! You can find all previous IGTV episodes in my Instagram profile and a link to all of the blog posts at the bottom of this post.  And also some of my links below are to history.com. I love this site. Mostly. What I don’t love is that the videos auto-play. Right click on the browser tab and opt to “mute site” or “mute tab.” That … Continue reading Historical Happenings for the Week of November 5th-10th