Jewel L. Hopkins
jewel.hopkins@kcsdschools.net
Hopkins’s
Herald
]-October 21, 2015
Issue 1.9
Soaring Through The
DI
RWeek
eading: ”How Chipmunk Got
His Stripes”, pp. 259-278
Vocabulary – tunnel, curled,
height, direction, toward,
healed, brag, tease
Skills- understanding characters,
Writing/English:
verbs;
summarizing, synonyms
Journal writing-narratives,
informational paragraphs
Math: Chapter 5 – Place Value to
1,000
Lessons – hundreds; hundreds,
tens, and ones; Place value to
1,000; Problem solving-Using
logical reasoning; read and write
Skillstext
and graphic
numbers to
1,000;
Counting by 5s,
features,
10s, and 100s; Comparing numbers
final
blends,
prefixesdigit,
(un-, re-)
Vocabulary
– compare,
place value equal to, greater
Science/Social
than, less than, expanded form,
Studies/Health
-Communities
ones, tens, hundreds,
thousands (
ten thousands, hundred thousands,
Happy Birthday to You!!
millions)
T
Lugoff Elementary
School
438.8000 ext. 5224
Be Wise – Mark Your Calendars!
Wednesday – Field Trip to Super Scientific Circus in
Sumter, SC.; Swan Lake suffering from flood
damage. READ some fun books!!!
Thursday –Math4Today and DOL tests; READ!
Friday – Math Assessment; End of Nine Weeks; last
day for AR points to count for fifteen for the first
nine weeks!
Monday – All Pro Breakfast; Please return the
Friday Folder signed; Mystery Mansion
(Fiction…does NOT have to be seasonal; ANY fiction
will do) Book Report due today. Must be able to
hang up reasonably. 
Tuesday – Spelling test and homework due; reading
test on “How Chipmunk Got His Stripes”
Dates to Remember…
October 28 – Ident-A-Kid
October 29 – Dental Screenings
October 30 – Report Cards Distributed!
Say BOO! To Drugs – Dress up for $1.00. Proceeds
to benefit PBIS! (See costume
expectations/limitations)
November 1 – Fall back one hour. Time changes!
November 2 - Second Installment Payment of
$20.00 due
November 4-10 – COGAT/ITBS Testing
November 4 – Fall MAKE UP PICTURE DAY
November 5 – Hopkins’s Friends and Family to
Lunch; LES Cici’s Spirit Night – 5:00 – 7:00.
Proceeds to benefit Tech Lilac
Second Grade Awards Day -1:15 p.m.
November 11 – Veterans’ Day Program
Dear Parents,
NEWS!***Be
CHAMPION!
READ!
Get 15 AR
The class and I would like to thank Colemann and the
Gross familya for
donating the
novel Believe
it points
with
80%
or
better
accuracy!
Get
4
passing
Or Not, my Brother has a Monster to our class library as it is the perfect addition. I’d also like to scores
of 80 orand
better
and
move up
the next
level!!
thank Valentino, Keith, and Kennedie for being so generous
giving
“pennies
for to
change”.
In fact,
Remember
to
turn
in
your
“Read
Your
Way
one of our friends, Valentino, gave a dollar and change! Hooray for our chaperones who were luckyto the
enough to be the chosen ones – Mrs. Jutuan Robinson
(Keshaunna’s
and Mrs.to
Tabitha
Big Game”
sheet mom)
for a chance
win 4Staples
tickets,
(Laken’s mom)! Thank you so much for helping to keep
all ofpasses,
our friends
safe,activities
and sound!
sideline
andhappy,
pregame
for the
PLEASE give generously to JumpRope For Heart!
First
place
fundraising–
ice
cream
party,
Palmetto Bowl. *****
class treats, and extra PE. Second and Third place – class treats and extra PE. Teacher also to
receive incentives.
Weekly Spelling pattern –words with –ed, -ing
liked, using, riding, chased, spilled, making, closed, hoping, baked, hiding, standing,
asked, mixed, sleeping, teasing, knocking, tunnel, curled, healed, topping, going,
direction