Welcome to 3rd Grade!

Mondays

• Wear gold for Childhood Cancer Awareness
• Bedtime stories with Mrs. Owens @ 7:00 pm

• #AliefProud: wear your Alief or Rees t-shirt

• Wear your College / military t-shirt

• Wear orange for RESPECT
• 3rd grade parent lunch (beginning on 9/17)

• Wear your Rees t-shirt
• September 15-October 15: HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH (We invite everyone to wear traditional Hispanic Heritage attire on Fridays (9/18, 9/25, and 10/2)

September 10: teal & purple for Suicide Prevention Awareness Day
September 11: Patriotic attire for Texas First Responders Day
September 11: 3rd grade Math CBA #1

September 14-18 CELEBRATE FREEDOM WEEK

• Monday: FREEDOM to choose to live in Houston – Houston attire
• Tuesday: FREEDOM to choose Alief I.S.D. -- #AliefProud attire
• Wednesday: FREEDOM to choose after graduation from Alief I.S.D. – college, career or military
• Thursday: FREEDOM to choose to live in Texas – Texas attire
• Friday: FREEDOM to choose Rees PVAA – Rees PVAA attire

September 24: 3rd Grade Science CBA
September 25: 8:30 Coffee with the Principal
September 28: Rees PVAA clubs begin

September 29: 3rd Grade Field Trip to the Zoo
September 30: Gifted / Talented referral window closes

Dear Parents,

Our 3rd Graders will be attending a field trip to the Houston Zoo on Tuesday, September 29 , 2026! The cost of the field trip is free!

It is important that you send your child wearing a blue or Rees Elementary Spirit Shirt (if possible), and comfortable shoes since we will be doing a lot of walking that day. Students will eat lunch once we return to school. Any water bottles need to be disposable, since everything will need to be disposed of before returning to Rees.

• September 10: Social Studies CBA
• September 11: Math CBA
• September 24: Science CBA

• making inferences
• point of view
• text/graphic features
• theme
• retelling
• literary elements
• elements of poetry
• figurative language

During the month of September students will finish working on addition and subtraction of whole numbers by:

• using estimation and compatible numbers
• using diagrams, number lines, and equations

Please take the time to look over the information included in the September Math Home-to-School Connections below, to discover ways in which you can support your child at home.

Starting September 14, students will begin working on:

• exploring multiplication models
• exploring division models

Please take the time to look over the information included in the September Math Home-to-School Connections below, to discover ways in which you can support your child at home.

Your third grader will be having lots of fun in Science this month! We will be learning all about matter and its properties. We will be learning how to classify matter and how to read the temperature on a thermometer. We will learn about the different states of matter and their attributes. Later in the month, we will be begin learning about the forces of push and pull. We will have lots of fun with hands on investigations and reading in our brand new Science books.

For Social Studies students started the school year by learning about our communities, what makes a good community, where communities are located (maps), and the three types of communities (urban, suburban, and rural).

By the end of the unit, students will be able to answer questions such as:

• What makes a good community?
• How have communities changed over time?
• What are the characteristics and purposes of different types of maps?
• What are the characteristics of rural, suburban, and urban communities?

Our conference time is from 1:05 - 1:50 pm

If you want to schedule a conference, please contact your child's teacher ahead of time.

Please contact us via email, Parent Square, or leave a message in the front office.

Ms. Reyes:

angie.reyes@aliefisd.net

Mrs. Carbajal:

Gabriela.CarbajalLopez@aliefisd.net

Mrs. Stevens:

Raquel.StevensJimenez@aliefisd.net

Ms. Beavers:

koya.beavers@aliefisd.net

Mrs. Clomasn:

tarvia.cloman@aliefisd.net

Mrs. Castillo:

patricia.castillo@aliefisd.net

Mrs. Hemmer:

Amy.Hemmer@aliefisd.net