Here’s a great website for you to take practice released SOL tests!  Enjoy!!

http://www.iq.poquoson.org/

1. What was the Reconstruction Time Period?
2. Why did Virginia need to “rebuild?”
3. What was “sharecropping?”

Click link below to take review quiz by Friday, January 20th.
http://www.quia.com/quiz/3464494.html

Our next unit of Virginia History is the American Revolution. Here are some great videos that will take you through the American Revolution. Look for more to come!
School House Rocks – No More King! Learn why the colonists wanted their freedom from the King.

Here are two videos that help build our understanding of why things happened they way they did. You can also do some exploring on this website: www.libertyskids.com/.

We just kicked off our new unit of Social Studies.  We will be talking about the end of the 1600′s and making our way towards the Revolutionary War.  Here’s a video we put together to help understand what life was like then:

Learn the planet order by singing!  Sing it to me by Friday and earn 1 dollar!  The Planets Song

Can YOU order these planets from nearest to farthest?  Click here to play the Quia Game.

You have a 3 gallon bucket, a 5 gallon bucket, and an unlimited supply of water.  How can you get exactly 4 gallons without using any other containers?
Use this game to help you with the answer:
http://www.netrover.com/~kingskid/jugs/jugs.html

Use your interactive notebook pgs. 30-31 and what you learned from the Keynote to help you answer the questions.  Click on the link below.
http://www.quia.com/quiz/3344191.html