Last Post of the Year

Hello Dear All-Star, 

This is the last post on the blog for this year. 

Please follow each direction carefully! 

1- Use these links to practice skills with weather! 
You may go to any weather related activity on these sites!  

Weather Wiz Kids

Learn About Clouds

Predict the Weather

2- Click this link and answer the questions. MAKE SURE YOU CLICK SUBMIT AFTER FINISHING!

Weather Check Up

3- Click on this link to share your ideas and feelings about Fourth Grade with Mrs. Lane. MAKE SURE YOU CLICK SUBMIT AFTER FINISHING!

4th Grade

4. If you finish all of these things then you may play this Practice US Game... Enjoy! Quiz after PE.

Let's Learn About the USA

Reading SOL Practices

Click here for more: Reading SOL Practices

VA Studies Practice SOL

SOL Practice click this link to practice for the Social Studies SOL. Be careful!

Click here for another practice! Another practice

Reading Practice

Do this on-line reading assessment to help prepare!
On-line Reading Practice

Reading Review Station

Here are the activities for review:

Do 1 per visit to the computer station. 
You may play each game 2 or 3 times and record your BEST score on your checklist. 

1- Context Clue Quiz  http://www.softschools.com/quizzes/language_arts/using_context_clues/quiz1280.html

2- Toon University http://www.toonuniversity.com/flash.asp?err=191

3- Cows Context Clues http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/5_6/cows/cows.htm

4- Inference Battlefield http://www.quia.com/ba/41785.html

Three Branches of VA Government

Explore the links below to find interesting facts about Virginia's State Government. Spend a lot of time with the links.
Virtual Tours of Virginia State Capitol

Bill to Law

Capitol Classroom

Diary of a Slave

Today you will pretending to be a slave during the time of the Underground Railroad.
1- First watch the video that shows an old slave song that would actually give directions to slaves that were trying to escape slavery by moving North on the Underground Railroad.

2- Open Google Drive a document. Then write a diary entry pretending you are a slave escaping on the Underground Railroad. You must include some fact about Harriet Tubman, some fact about the Underground Railroad, as well as your feelings as a runaway slave. You need to tell whether you are with your family or alone. You need to give your age and your plan to get to the north. This must be written with correct spelling, grammar, and writing mechanics such as capitals and punctuation.
Start it as:
Dear Diary,
____
____
____
(Then signed with your "slave" name).
3- REMEMBER TO SHARE IT WITH ME... dlane@rcps.org
Enjoy!