Fourth Grade News

Math Reminder:

Our Mastery Connect Math Benchmark is on Monday . We kindly ask that you make every effort to have your child at CCE on time and ready to learn.

Please help your child feel prepared by making sure they:

• Get a good night’s sleep
• Eat a good breakfast
• Bring a fully charged Chromebook
• Arrive at school on time and ready to do their best

We believe in each of our students and know they will work hard, stay focused, and show what they know!

Reading:

Changes in the Geosphere

Social Studies:

Math:

Numbers and Number Patterns *Please practice multiplication facts at home each day*

Dear CCE Fourth Grade Families,

A little practice each night can make a BIG difference! Use these helpful tips to review our current learning goals and help your child feel confident and prepared for upcoming assessments.

Reading: Authors’ Word Choice

Learning Goal: I can determine an author’s use of words and phrases in grade-level texts.

How to Practice at Home:

• Read for at least 15–20 minutes each night.
• Look for interesting, descriptive, or repeated words and phrases.
• Ask, “Why did the author choose this word instead of another word?”
• Discuss how words help the reader picture a scene, understand a character’s feelings, or create a certain mood.
• Practice using context clues to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words.

Ask Your Child:

• What does this word or phrase mean?
• Why do you think the author chose these words?
• How do these words help you understand the text?

Writing: Opinion Writing

Learning Goal: I can write an opinion piece about a topic with reasons supported by facts.

How to Practice at Home:

• Choose a fun topic, such as “Should students have extra recess?”
• State a clear opinion.
• Give at least two or three reasons that support the opinion.
• Include facts or examples that support each reason.
• Finish with a conclusion that restates the opinion.

Remember the Opinion Writing Formula:

Opinion + Reasons + Facts/Evidence + Conclusion

Ask Your Child:

• What is your opinion?
• What reasons support your opinion?
• What facts or examples can you use as evidence?

Science: Changes in the Geosphere

Learning Goal: Understand how Earth's solid materials and landforms change over time.

How to Practice at Home:

• Review the meanings of geosphere, weathering, erosion, and deposition.
• Discuss how wind, water, ice, and gravity can change Earth's surface.
• Look at pictures of mountains, rivers, beaches, or canyons and discuss how they may have changed.
• Compare slow changes, such as weathering, with sudden changes, such as landslides or earthquakes.
• Explain how moving water can carry sediment from one location to another.

Ask Your Child:

• What is the difference between weathering and erosion?
• How can water change Earth's surface?
• What happens when sediment is deposited in a new location?

🇺🇸 Social Studies: Events Leading to the American Revolution

Learning Goal: I can explain how specific events led up to the American Revolution.

Focus Topic: The French and Indian War

How to Practice at Home:

• Review why Great Britain and France fought over land in North America.
• Remember that many Native American nations had their own interests and alliances during the conflict.
• Discuss how the war left Great Britain with significant debt.
• Review how Great Britain began taxing the American colonists to help pay its expenses.
• Explain why colonists became upset about taxes and their lack of representation in Parliament.

Remember This Cause-and-Effect Chain:

French and Indian War → British Debt → New Taxes and Policies → Colonial Protests → Growing Tensions → American Revolution

Ask Your Child:

• Why did the French and Indian War happen?
• How did the war affect Great Britain financially?
• Why did British taxes increase tensions between Great Britain and the colonists?

Math: Numbers and Number Patterns

Learning Goal: I can identify, describe, and extend number patterns and explain the rules that connect numbers.

How to Practice at Home:

• Practice multiplication facts every day for 5–10 minutes.
• Review multiplication facts through 12 × 12.
• Identify the rule in a number pattern.
• Extend a pattern by finding the next three numbers.
• Explain how the numbers change from one term to the next.
• Practice skip-counting and connecting multiplication facts to number patterns.

Try These!

1. 4, 8, 12, 16, ___, ___
2. 7, 14, 21, 28, ___, ___
3. 3, 6, 12, 24, ___
4. What is the rule for this pattern: 100, 90, 80, 70, ___?

Ask Your Child:

• What is the pattern rule?
• How do you know what number comes next?
• Can you explain the pattern in your own words?

All Chromebooks and chargers will be were sent home on Tuesday, September 8, 2026. Chromebooks and chargers need to be brought back to school each day. Please make sure your Chromebook is charged before coming to school. Thank you.

October 2026:

• 10/5 ~ Good News Club begins
• October 5th - November 6th Fall Conference Window
• 10/9 ~ Kona Ice ($3)
• 10/12 ~ MVPA Science - Fall Benchmark
• 10/14 ~ MVPA Reading - Fall Benchmark
• 10/16~No School - Teacher Workday!
• 10/22~ BOO Night at CCE

The 2026-2027 4th Grade Syllabus has fantastic information. It has the following:

• Contact information for each teacher
• 4th Grade Long Range Plans for ELA, MATH, SOCIAL STUDIES, SCIENCE
• Parent/Teacher communication information
• Grading guidelines
• Homework information
• Classroom Expectations
• School Supply List
• Inclement weather/e-Learning information

Missing Assignments & NHI: A Quick Guide for Parents

• What does NHI mean? NHI stands for "Not Handed In." This means your child has not turned in a required assignment.

• How to determine what is missing: You can log into parent backpack to see which assignments are marked NHI. The assignment name, due date, and any related details will be listed there.

• What happens if the assignment isn’t turned in: An NHI counts as a 50 in the gradebook until the work is submitted. Once your child completes and turns in the missing assignment, the grade will be updated. If the assignment is never turned in, the NHI will remain a 50, which may significantly impact your child’s overall grade.

• Submissions to clear an NHI must be turned in to the teacher within 2 weeks of the original assignment date.

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Reassessment Policy:

After a minor assignment is given, students who have not mastered the material will be offered the opportunity to analyze and reflect on their learning, and may request a reassessment. Chandler Creek teachers will reteach concepts students haven’t mastered, then reassess relevant parts of the assignment to promote a mastery of learning concepts prior to a major assessment. Requests for reassessment must be submitted within one week of the minor grade being posted.

GCS has a new eLearning website on the GCS parent page for your reference. It includes authentication, power washing and other support resources for students and parents.

VISITORS AT LUNCH

We are excited to welcome parents to join their student for lunch in the cafeteria after Labor Day. The cost of an adult lunch for the 2026-2027 school year is $5.55. Visiting adults can pay by cash or check - or by depositing money into your child's lunch account using MySchoolBucks (ahead of time). Unfortunately, our cafeteria is not able to accept Apple Pay or credit/debit cards.

As a reminder, district policy prohibits restaurant / fast food being brought into the cafeteria.

Please be sure to contact your child’s teacher if you wish to join us for lunch.

Students at Chandler Creek should ONLY be bringing water in water bottles. Thank you for your help with this at school.

1. Cell Phone Policy:

2. Student Personal Electronic Device Policy

• The South Carolina Legislature enacted a requirement that school districts adopt a policy that prohibits access to personal electronic devices by students during the school day.

• Students cell phones are prohibited between 7:15 and 2:45pm

• Student personal electronic devices must be turned off during the school day and must be stored in student bookbags.

• Smart watches are considered a “personal electronic device” therefore are not permitted

• Student consequences

• Step 1: teacher warning

• Step 2: parent phone call

• Step 3: admin support

• Updated Attendance Policy:

  • Students are now permitted ten absences for the year, regardless of reason or classification, to remain in compliance with SC Attendance regulations.

  • Parents are to send in a note within 3 days of an absence stating the reason for and date of the absence. Submit these notes to the office when you receive them from students.

Backpack for Parents

A backpack for parents account provides parents, guardians, or contacts with a central place to sign in to do the following:

• View their student's information including demographics, attendance, classes, grades, lunch balances, and test scores
• Apply or register their student to Special Focus schools and programs (Fine Arts Center, Career Centers, etc.)
• Receive alerts and notifications regarding their students
• View their student's school and contact information
• Manage parent and contact information for their students

Having a Parent Backpack account gives you access to your child’s grades and attendance, as well as information from teachers, your principal, and the district.

For more information on how to sign up, go to https://tinyurl.com/28fh7deb

School Visitor and Volunteer Guidelines

Greenville County Schools (GCS), in an effort to ensure the safety of all of our students, has implemented additional security checks for school volunteers. All volunteers must submit an online application to the district and receive clearance from the district before volunteering at any school/center or chaperoning any school field trip.

Volunteers are now identified by two different categories ~ Level I or Level II. The application is the same for level I and level II (you must be 18 or older to become a volunteer). Volunteer Application Form

LEVEL I - This level requires the presence and supervision of a GCS employee at all times. Level I volunteers must have a National Sex Offender Registry check conducted every time they volunteer at the school (this is the current process each time you check into a school and/or district office). Level I volunteers may volunteer in classrooms, work in the Media Center, and participate in school activities on campus as long as staff members are present. Level I volunteers must sign in each time they volunteer. Photo identification must be presented each time for verification.

LEVEL II –This level allows interaction with students without a GCS employee present. Level II volunteers must have a National Sex Offender Registry check conducted every time they volunteer at the school as well as a criminal background check good for three years. Chaperones for field trips are required to be a Level II volunteer, regardless of the destination (YOU MUST BE 21 or older TO BE A FIELD TRIP CHAPERONE) .

Additional information can be found at https://www.greenville.k12.sc.us/Parents/main.asp?titleid=volunteers