Of course there is the Archduke Ferdinand moment, but that was but one part. We spend the first day learning about the events leading up to the war.The week before Christmas is when I whip out one of my favorite history lessons–World War I and the Christmas Truce. I wanted learning history to be fun…and hopefully memorable. We filled in our worksheets from the bleachers, chasing after them (reluctantly) from time to time when the wind blew them away! When I started teaching American history to my 5th graders, I wanted things to be different. All I really remember is my 7th grade teacher giving us a packet of worksheets to fill in as we read a chapter in the book or my high school US history teacher holding classes in the bleachers so that he could practice with his baseball team on the field during the spring season.
