About Virginia
Virginia is nicknamed "The Old Dominion" and was home to Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in America, founded in 1607. Virginia Beach, its largest city, sits along the Atlantic coast and has the longest pleasure beach in the world according to the Guinness World Records.
This state's featured city
Virginia Beach is the city featured for Virginia on this site. Trace the worksheet below, or use the interactive tool to make one for any other Virginia city or town.
Using an "I Live in Virginia Beach" worksheet
Print the worksheet at full size and have the child say "I live in Virginia Beach" aloud before and after tracing it — pairing the spoken phrase with the written word helps the city name feel like a real, personally meaningful fact rather than an arbitrary word to copy.
Other states on this site
Virginia Beach is one of fifty featured cities covered here, one per state — see the full city tracing overview to browse every state's featured city, or jump directly to a neighboring state.
Pairing Virginia's city with a child's own name
Practicing Virginia Beach alongside a child's own name tracing worksheet builds a small set of personal facts a child can write confidently — their name, and where they live — well before they're writing full sentences.