Kindergarten Newsletter

Please make sure your child's jacket has his or her name written on the tag. We will go outside for recess everyday unless it is raining. if your child lost his/her jacket, you are welcome to come anytime by the school and check the lost and found area by the cafeteria.

Please send a bottle with water (preferably in a thermos) daily. Make sure it has your child's name written on it. Drinking from the water fountain is not healthy for our little kindergarteners when unsupervised. We have had several students getting sick.

Lunch time is from 10:50 am to 11:30 am. Please join us on Mondays only to eat lunch with your child. Remember to take pictures only of your child. The last class leaves at 11:30 to class, please plan accordingly and get on time. Students can not take food with them.

Make sure you check the lunch menu daily, many students are not eating enough because they don't like the school's lunch. Please talk to your child about their food preferences. Do not send snacks in lunch boxes. If you do, make sure your child is aware. Some students are not lining up for a tray, and end up eating only snacks for lunch.

Theme: Module 8 'From plant to plate', Mother's day, and summer fun!

We continue working on fiction stories focusing on the characters and the setting, and the plot of the story (identifying the beginning, middle and end).

We will identify the main idea and the details that support it when reading informational texts (non-fiction stories).

Please see a detailed description of the activities in this module.

This month we will develop our research writing by writing about our favorite animals. Also, we will continue working on personal narratives by telling stories about ourselves focusing on small moments and how we felt.

We will also begin our end of the school year activities, we will write about our school year and all we have learned.

Please make sure your child practices handwriting, and stretching sounds as they write. Practice sight words daily to facilitate their writing and reading fluency.

Have your child work with playdough to strengthen his/her hands' muscles and improve fine motor skills. He or she can also practice cutting magazines or old coloring books.

• Identifying digraphs: long vowels, blends such as -th (bath, teeth) -sh (shell, shout) -ch (peach, reach) -wh (what, when) and silent -e (like, bike)
• Isolate sounds in a given word. For example: mat. This word has the sounds /m/ /a/ /t/. Give your child different words and have them recognize the sounds they hear.
• Blending phonemes into words. Blending means to combine 2 or more sounds to form a word. In this case, you might give your child the sounds /b/ /o/ /x/ to form the word box.
• Please continue to work with letter names and sounds. Use flash cards to assist with learning letters, making sure the cards are not in ABC order.

• Identificar y leer sílabas trabadas: Las silabas trabadas se forma al juntar dos consonantes. Por ejemplo con la R: cr- pr- fr- br- dr- o con la L: cl- pl- bl- fl-
• Identificar los sonidos en una palabra. Por ejemplo en la palabra sopa, los sonidos son /s/ /o/ /p/ /a/. Trabaje palabras de 2 a 4 sonidos.
• Combinar sonidos para formar palabras. Por ejemplo si le dice a su hijo/a los sonidos /s/ /a/ /l/ él o ella debe de poder decirle la palabra completa sal.
• Formar palabras nuevas al cambiar un sonido: Dele a su hijo/a sonidos para formar palabras y luego pídale que cambie un sonido para formar una palabra nueva. Por ejemplo: los sonidos /m/ /a/ /s/ /a/ forman la palabra masa, cambie la /a/ de la sílaba -ma y coloque una /e/ ¿Qué palabra se forma? mesa. Otro ejemplos son: sol->sal. mes->más. pesa->mesa. foca->foco
• Identificar y hacer rimas. Diga a su hijo/a dos palabras y permita que el/ella le diga si riman o no. Por ejemplo: pato/gato si riman, luna/casa no riman. Mas adelante, diga usted una palabra y que su hijo/a le diga una palabra que rime con la que usted le dijo. Por ejemplo: "Dime una palabra que rima con masa". Su hijo/a puede decir casa, tasa, pasa.

Our main focus this month is classifying, sorting and graphing. Students must be able to count, sort by attributes ( like shape, color, and size), and register in a graph.

We will work on identifying coins and personal finance (discuss saving and borrowing)

Please keep practicing basic concepts such as counting forwards and backwards, and identifying numbers up to 50, move to 100 if your child is ready.

• Plant's life cycles: Identifying the stages and correct sequence in the plant's life cycle.
• STREAM Activities: We will begin fun activities that integrate Science, Technology, Reading, Engineering, Arts and Math. In this lessons your child will review and practice all the skills they have learned during the school year.

• Now and then - Learn about how technology has improve our lives by discussing how things were in the past and how they are now. We will be looking at schools, cars, phones, and clothing.

*****all “dress” days are always optional – school uniform is perfect on all school days****

Tuesdays: Wear #AliefProud shirt

Wednesdays: wear college or military shirt

Thursdays: wear purple for courage

Fridays: Rees spirit

May 1: Batman Day!!

May 2: International Harry Potter Day

May 3: National Two Different Colored Shoes Day and Career Day.

May 6 to 10: Teacher Appreciation Week - Show your teachers some love

May 8: National School Nurse Day #NurseWASHINGTON #ClinicAidGUILLORY

May 16: National Wear Purple For Peace Day

May 17: Kindergarten Graduation at 9:30 am

May 20: International Red Sneakers Day and World Bee Day

May 23: LAST DAY OF SCHOOL. - 2:00 pm early dismissal and Report Card Day

May 27: district closed for Memorial Day

June 3: Summer School begins

1. Keep a change of clothes in your child's backpack including underwear, socks, pants, and a shirt. Please update as the weather changes or your child grows.
2. Have your child bring a bottle of water daily.
3. All students must wear their School ID daily. Students who ride the bus must take their School ID home daily.
4. Behavior folders must be signed daily. Please keep it inside the backpack. (Replacements $0.50)
5. Clean the folder and backpack on Fridays - Please check communication daily.

Mrs. Velasquez and Mrs. Manuel - Can be contacted via Remind

• claudia.manuel@aliefisd.net
• rosario.velasqueznavarro@aliefisd.net

Ms. Alvarez and Ms. Orta - Can be contacted via Remind

• flor.alvarez@aliefisd.net
• america.orta@aliefisd.net

Mrs. Martinez and Ms. Kaiser - Can be contacted via Remind

• elizabeth.martinez@aliefisd.net
• kaylee.kaiser@aliefisd.net

Website: https://www.aliefisd.net/Rees
Location: 16305 Kensley Dr, Houston, TX 77082
Phone: (281) 531-1444
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