Welcome Back!

I hope everyone had the BEST THANKSGIVING EVER! I know I did. It was a much needed break and time with family. Anyways, now we are all coming back to school and we have the final push before we go out for Christmas Break. Its hard to believe that its only 3 weeks away. 

So, I wanted to take this time to lay out the "game plan" for these last few weeks of the 1st semester. 

Coming back on Monday, we will finish up the Rock Cycle and take a quiz on Tuesday, so, be ready for that and make sure your child is studying! After that we will talk briefly about fossils and where they are found. Once we finish that, we will begin preparing for our SOL 5.7 unit test. This test will be pretty big as we have covered a lot of material to this SOL. Don't worry, you can find the study guide here to get a jump start on studying! 

Our next science unit will be on Oceans. We will talk about the profile of the ocean floor, properties and characteristics of the ocean and oceanic food chains. There are a lot of cool labs and projects we do with the ocean! Yeah, labs! :) We should get though the fist part of this SOL before we go out for Christmas break! Here is one of the Brain Pop videos I use in class to teach the ocean floor. Feel free to view it with your child and discuss. It never hurts for them to be ahead!

As for Virginia Studies, we will start setting the stage for the Revolutionary War. This is somethings students learned in 4th grade so we will briefly review this before we leave because once we come back, we jump right into the Civil War!

WOW, we are moving on! Hard to believe we are almost at the half way point. As always, if you have any concerns or questions, feel free to email me or fill out the google doc that was posted in my first blog!