2nd Grade
May Newsletter 2025
Important Dates
May 1: School Principals’ Day (dress like Mrs. Lara and/or wear purple!)
May 1: 5:00 - 6:30 Family Library Night and Puppet show
May 2: International Harry Potter Day
May 2: Career Day
May 5-9: Teacher Appreciation Week
May 6: Math AIA
May 9: Science CBA #4 (Organisms and Environment)
May 12-16: BOOK FAIR and last week for parent lunch days
May 22: Math Unit 11 CBA- Length
May 29: LAST DAY OF SCHOOL - 2 p.m. early dismissal
June 3: Summer School begins
School Wide Dress Code
Monday
Purple shirt with jeans for courage.
Tuesday
#AliefProud shirt with jeans.
Wednesday
College / Military shirt with jeans.
Thursday
Green shirt with jeans for Mental Health Awareness month.
Friday
Rees Spirit shirt with jeans.
Dress- up days
These dress up days are optional. Students are welcomed to wear their collared shirts with khaki or navy pants on a daily biases.
Reading
Module 8
It’s time to grow! 😊 2nd graders are kicking off Module 8, with an inquiry project. We will use a variety of research sources, to create a brochure, after researching natural disasters.
Furthermore, we will be reviewing text features, determining importance while evaluating the most important details of a story, and identifying cause & effect. We will revisit internal and external character traits, and retell the events in a story, We will also revisit story structure, plot elements, beginning, middle and end. Metacognition will take us through making connections to our personal experiences, other texts, and to the world.
Writing
Procedural Text
Children will engage in the full writing process to produce a procedural text during this three-week module. The Writing Workshop Teacher’s Guide provides explicit instruction and ample opportunity for children to write daily.
Math
Unit 10: Length (CBA on May 22)
In this unit, your child will measure length. Skills your child will practice include:
• estimating and measuring length, width, and height in meters
• measuring length, width, and height in centimeters
• estimating and measuring length in feet
• measuring length in inches
• drawing lines of given length
• comparing and ordering metric and customary lengths
• using bar models to solve up to two-step problems involving lengths
STEM activities for 05/27-05/29
Science
Unit 4: Organisms and Environments (Science test- May 9)
- 05/05-05/08
STEM and PBL Connections - 5/12-5/29
Activities to come!
Social Studies
Unit 5
5/5-5/9: Technology Then and Now
- Students will learn to compare life in the past to life today, and understand that some things change while others stay the same
- Students will learn to describe how science and technology change communication, transportation, recreation, and the ways in which people meet basic needs.
5/12-5/23: American Heroes
- Students will learn to identify the contributions of historical figures who influenced our nation's history.
- Students will learn to identify the historical figures who exhibited individualism, inventiveness, and good citizenship.
How to contact your child's teacher
Ms. De Los Reyes and Mr. Rivers - via ParentSquare
christina.delosreyes@aliefisd.netchristopher.riversjr@aliefisd.net
Mrs. Rodriguez and Mrs. Gomez - via ParentSquare
deyanira.rodriguezojeda@aliefisd.net
enyi.rosagomez@aliefisd.net
Ms. Reyes - via Class Dojo
Ms. Valencia - via Whatsapp
angie.reyes@aliefisd.net
irma.hornung@aliefisd.net
Website: https://www.aliefisd.net/Rees
Location: 16305 Kensley Drive, Houston, TX, USA
Phone: (281) 531-1444
Twitter: @ReesStars