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APRIL NEWS 2025

Read about all the learning we are doing this month!

APRIL NEWS2025Read about all the learning we are doing this month!

HOW TO CONTACT US:

HOW TO CONTACT US:




Communication is key to your child's success. Please contact your child's homeroom teacher.


Conferences by appointment: 9:25a.m.-10:00a.m.

Rees Elementary phone number: 281-531-1444



  • Mrs. Hurtado (Dual Language Teacher)

    • monica.hurtado@aliefisd.net

    Ms. Flores (Dual Language Teacher)

    • isauradiana.flores@aliefisd.net

    Mrs. Hina (Monolingual Teacher)

    • fnu.hinagulzar@aliefisd.net

    Mrs. Duran (Monolingual Teacher)

    • Leslie.Duran@aliefisd.net

    Mrs. Gomez (Bilingual Teacher)

    • jennifer.Cubelli-Gomez@aliefisd.net

    Mrs. Castillo (Bilingual Teacher)

    • patricia.castillo@aliefisd.net

Parent Lunch Days /Almuerzo con los padres Parent Lunch Days /Almuerzo con los padres

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      • Parent Lunch Day for 1st Grade are on Tuesdays. Please read below to see your child's specific lunchtime.


        Lunch times for First Grade range from 11:05 - 11:45, depending on the class:



        • Duran & Hina: 11:05-11:35
        • Castillo & Gomez: 11:10-11:40
        • Hurtado & Flores: 11:15-11:45


  • College or Military Shirt on Wednesdays.
  • Rees Spirit Shirt on Fridays.

Student and Staff Holidays Student and Staff Holidays

Reminder No school April April 18 and 21
  • Monday: blue for Perseverance, bedtime stories with Mrs. Owens
  • Tuesday: #AliefProud, 1st grade parent lunch day
  • Wednesday: college / military,
  • Thursday: blue for Autism Awareness,
  • Friday: Rees Spirit Day,

    o April 2: World Autism Day
    International Children’s Book Day
    1st IA #2

    Space Cowboy Reading Program tracker due

    • April 5: 9:00-1:00 PreK Registration (@ Rees)

    Alief Girl’s Conference

    • April 7 – 11: CLOSED CAMPUS
    • April 8: 3rd and 4th grade STAAR READING
    • April 9: National Unicorn Day
    • April 10: Progress Report Day
      5:00-6:30 Family Library Night
    • April 11: 1st grade Reading CBA
    • April 14: 1st grade Math CBA (shapes and money)

    o April 16: National Wear Your Pajamas to Work Day
    5:00-6:00 Rees PVAA Dance Parent information meeting (current 2nd and 3rd grade students interested in trying out for Dance Club)

    • April 17: National Crawfish Day
    • April 18: No School
    • April 21: No School
    • April 22 – 25: CLOSED CAMPUS
    • April 22: Earth Day, National Shrek Day and National Baseball Day
    • April 23: Happy Administrative Professionals Day
    • April 25: Arbor Day and World Penguin Day


    • April 28 – May 2: Alief I.S.D. Volunteer Appreciation Week
    • April 28: National Superhero Day
    • April 30: National Bugs Bunny Day
    Bedtime Stories
    Rees Bedtime Story Zoom @ 7 p.m. on Monday nights!
    Meeting ID: 834 6744 5976
    Password: rees123
    Family library nights/Noches de biblioteca
    Once a month from 5p.m.-7p.m.

    Reading & Writing Reading & Writing

    Reading & Writing

    We follow the HMH curriculum. Each module lasts 15 days. Day 1 is an introduction to the module, and day 15 is a day to review, wrap up, and assess students.


    Module 8: What Story Teach Us?

    Module 9: What do plants need to live and grow?
    Essential Question What do plants need to live and grow?
    Pregunata escencial: ¿Qué necesitan las plantas para crecer y vivir?

    Vocabulary: absorbe, vegetation, sprout
    Vocabulario: absorver, vegetacion, brotar
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    Characters

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    Conexiones

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    Make Connections

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    Make Inferences

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    Inferencias

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    Qué historias nos enseñan

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    What Stories Teach Us

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    Mensaje

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    Personajes

    Math- Unit 11: Money & Personal Finance

    We follow the Math in Focus curriculum.


    This month, we will start working with on Money

    • Students will be taught to count the value of coins by applying the strategies of skip-counting and counting on from the coin of the greatest value by first sorting and then arranging the coins in order. Knowing that the same amount of money can be represented in different combinations of coins and that pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters can be used in different combinations to buy things is also a focus of this unit.
    • 1.4(A) identify U.S. coins, including pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters, by value and describe the relationships among them;

      1.4(B) write a number with the cent symbol to describe the value of a coin.

    • 1.4(C) use relationships to count by twos, fives, and tens to determine the value of a collection of pennies, nickels, and/or dimes.
    • 1.9(A) define money earned as income;
    • 1.9(B) identify income as a means of obtaining goods and services, oftentimes making choices between wants and needs;
    • 1.9(C) distinguish between spending and saving; and
    • 1.9(D) consider charitable giving.

    Tang Math

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    "Coins!" by ABCmouse.com
    HMH Learn: Counting to Find the Total Value of a Collection of Coins

    HMH Learn: Counting to Find the Total Value of a Collection of Coins

    HMH Learn: Counting to Find the Total Value of a Collection of Coins

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    Learn the Coins | Kid's Classroom Learning Video
    Money Song
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    Personal Finance

    All About Money

    On PebbleGo, review and read about:


    • What is Money?
    • Earning Money
    • Saving Money
    • Making Choices
    • Needs & Wants
    • Goods & Services
    ABCya! * Break the Bank - Sorting

    ABCya! * Break the Bank - Sorting

    Break the Bank and learn how to sort money! In this game, kids get to break open fun piggy banks to reveal coins and dollars. Sort and organize the money correctly in order to get to a fun bonus game!

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    Math-Unit 12: Numbers to 120

    After studying the concept of Money, we will focus on Unit 12: Numbers to 120.

    For Unit 12, students will focus on counting, comparing, and ordering numbers to 120, as well as read and write numbers to 120.

    Students will use place-value charts to show numbers to 120. They will also learn to compare and order numbers to 120 by classifying them into categories. When students are familiar with counting, comparing, and ordering numbers, it helps them identify the pattern within a number pattern.


    Students need to master the following skills:

    1.2 (B) use concrete and pictorial models to compose and decompose numbers up to 120 in more than one way as so many hundreds, so many tens, and so many ones.

    (C) use objects, pictures, and expanded and standard forms to represent numbers up to 120

    (D) generate a number that is greater than or less than a given whole number up to 120

    (E) use place value to compare whole numbers up to 120 using comparative language

    (F) order whole numbers up to 120 using place value and open number lines

    (G) represent the comparison of two numbers to 100 using the symbols >, <, or =

    1.3 (A) use concrete and pictorial models to determine the sum of a multiple of 10 and a one-digit number in problems up to 99.

    1.5 (A) recite numbers forward and backward from any given number between 1 and 120

    (B) skip count by twos, fives, and tens to determine the total number of objects up to 120 in a set

    (C) use relationships to determine the number that is 10 more and 10 less than a given number, up to 120

    Count to 120 with DJ Count | Jack Hartmann
    Place Value Song For Kids | Ones, Tens, & Hundreds | 1st - 3rd Grade
    Free Math apps/Apps gratis de Matemáticas
    ABCYA Math Game
    MOLLY ADDS & SUBTRACTS FROM 20

    Science/Ciencias Science/Ciencias

    Animal Characteristics


    We will be learning

    Animal Characteristics

    • We will investigate how the external characteristics of an animal are related to where it lives, how it moves, and what it eats


    Vocabulary: English: fins, gills, related, characteristics, breathe, diet, external

    Spanish: aletas, agallas, emparentado, características, respirar, dieta, externas
    1st grade Science and Social Studies: Animal characteristics
    Wild Kratts - Amazing Animals With Special Features | Kids Videos

    Social Studies/Estudios Sociales Social Studies/Estudios Sociales

    Then and Now

    Talking About Time- Past and Present

    • Use a calendar to describe and measure time in days, weeks, months, and years
    • use a simple timeline to distinguish among past, present, and future

    How do we learn about history?

    Earth day

    American Inventors and Heroes


    • identify contributions of historical figures who have influenced the nation.

    • identify contributions of scientists and inventors such as Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, and Garrett Morgan

    Spanish Earth Day. "Día de la Tierra"
    Earth Day Songs for Children - Protect Our Planet | Song for Kids

    Pebble Go App

    Pebble Go is a resource you can use to support your child at home with the Social Studies topics for this month. Simply have your child sign into the AliefHub. Pebble Go provides information both in English and Spanish. / PebbleGo es una fuente que puede usar para apoyar el aprendizaje de su hijo sobre los temas de Estudios Sociales de este mes. Simplemente haga que su hijo inicie sesión en AliefHub. PebbleGo proporciona información tanto en inglés como en español.
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