Syllabus
Mrs. Parris’ Syllabus 2022-2023
Welcome to 4th grade! We are looking forward to an exciting and productive year with your child. It is important that we all work together to ensure your child’s educational growth. Therefore, we must keep an open line of communication to discuss the accomplishments and concerns of all our students. Please feel free to contact me at the following:
rmparris@greenville.k12.sc.us
355-6843
I will be sending home a weekly newsletter through your child’s daily folder on Mondays, announcing upcoming events, tests, projects, etc. I will send home graded paper assessments through your child’s daily folder. However, most assessments are completed on Chromebooks; therefore, most online assessments can be accessed through your child’s Google Classroom on his/her Chromebook.
Homework policy:
Homework assignments are an extension and reinforcement of classroom instruction. Classwork that is not completed during the day will automatically become homework, in addition to any regular homework assigned.
Students are expected to write their daily homework assignments in their planner. The teacher will also update the “planner” tab with the same information on the classroom website should your child be absent or come in late.
A spelling choice board will be placed in your child’s daily folder. This is a way for your child to study his/her spelling words but will NOT be collected.
South Carolina College and Career Ready Standards:
A complete listing of standards can be accessed through the Greenville County School District web-site and the South Carolina State Department web-site. www.greenville.k12.sc.us http://ed.sc.gov/visitors/parents
Procedures for non-instructional routines:
When students arrive in the mornings, they will unpack, sharpen pencils and collect materials for the day.
During bathroom breaks, we go to the restroom as a class. If a student has an emergency and has to use the restroom at a time other than the classroom visits, he/she will be allowed to go as needed.
If you feel that your child needs to have a cell phone at school, the expectation is that it will remain in their backpack and be turned off throughout the school day. The school is not liable for the loss or damage of the phone when at school. If the phone is out during the school day it will be confiscated and returned at the end of the day.
Birthday Invitations: In accordance with Greenville County Schools, invitations may be passed out to the entire class by the student ONLY!
Classroom Management Plan:
1 Classroom Rule: If what you are doing interferes with someone’s learning, hurts someone’s heart, or prevents you from being your best self, you shouldn’t be doing it!
Chromebook Usage
To ensure the privacy and safety of our students, and to protect data and our resources, we ask parents and students to become familiar with policies and regulations that have been established for technology use in the district. The district’s Acceptable Use Policy (Board Policy and Administrative Rule EFE) is available on the district web site,
https//:www.greenville.k12.sc.us/departments/main.asp?titleid=etsaup
Mountain View also has their own technology handbook that will be sent home, signed and returned. There is
also a copy on my website.
Students should come to school with their Chromebook fully charged and bring their charger in their backpack, we do not have extra chargers in the classroom.
Units of Instruction
Science
Unit 1: Energy Resources
Unit 2: Changes in the Geosphere
Unit 3: Waves in Action
Unit 4: Energy in Motion and Collision
Unit 5: Senses and Survival
Writing Reading
Unit 1: Narrative Unit 1: Interpreting Characters
Unit 2: Informational Unit 2: Main Ideas and Text Structures
Unit 3: Literary Essay Unit 3: Close Reading of Fiction
Unit 4: Personal/Persuasive Unit 4: Reading the Weather, Reading the World
Unit 5: Historical Fiction Unit 5: Historical Fiction Clubs
Unit 6: Testing as a Genre Unit 6: Testing as a Genre (Reading)
Unit 7: Notebooks to Projects Unit 7: Reading History (The American Revolution)
Math
Unit 1: Place Value, Addition, and Subtraction to One Million
Unit 2: Explore Factors and Multiples
Unit 3: Using multiplication and division strategies
Unit 4: Composing and Decomposing Fractions to for Adding and Subtracting
Unit 5: Recognizing and Analyzing Attributes of 2-D Shapes
Unit 6: Understanding Fraction Equivalence and Comparison
Unit 7: Angle Measurement
Unit 8: Introducing Measurement Conversions
Unit 9: Solving Problems using Multiplicative Comparisons
Unit 10: Solving Measurement Problems using Operations
Unit 11: Solving Addition and Subtraction Problems with Fractions
Unit 12: Multiplying Fractions by Whole Number
Unit 13: Comparing Decimal Fractions
Unit 14: Problem Solving with Whole Numbers
Social Studies Units
Unit 1: Settlement of the United States
Unit 2: Colonies Unite
Unit 3: A Nation Emerges
Unit 4: Motivations to Expand
Unit 5: Effects of Expansion
Unit 6: A Nation Divided
Unit 7: Rebuilding a Nation
Calculation of grades:The grading scale utilized follows the standardized grading scale used throughout the school district.
A 100-90 C 79-70 F 59-50
B 89-80 D 69-60