• • 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)

    • @aliefisd.neleslie.durant

    Mrs. Gomez (Bilingual Teacher)

    • jennifer.Cubelli-Gomez@aliefisd.net

    Mrs. Castillo (Bilingual Teacher)

    • patricia.castillo@aliefisd.net

• ParentLunchDays/AlmuerzoconlospadresParentLunch

  • • 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

  
  

  
  

Mondays: , 7:00 bedtime stories
Tuesdays: #AliefProud, 1st grade parent lunch day
Wednesdays: college / military
Thursdays:
Friday: Rees spirit day

Student/Staff Holiday

Homework is sent home on Mondays and due every Friday.

• March 1: 8:00-3:00 Family U Conference @ CTD

  March 3: Dr. Suess Week: Grinch or Green Eggs and Ham

  March 4: Dr. Suess Week: The Lorax
  Mardi Gras

  March 5: Dr. Seuss Week: Wacky Wednesday

  March 6: Dr. Seuss Week: “Thing Thursday” / Cat in the Hat

  5:00-6:30 Family Library Night

  Big Art Day (during block)

  1st grade RLA CBA

  March 7: Field Day (no short-shorts and no tank tops)

  • 8:05 - 10:05 1st and 2nd grade

  March 6: 1st grade Math CBA #9 (+/- to 40)

  March 10-14: SPRING BREAK

  March 17: Student Holiday

  March 18: 6:30 School Board Meeting (6:00 Rees Choir performing)

  March 19: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Day

  March 20: REPORT CARD DAY

  Very Hungry Caterpillar Day

  World Frog Day

  March 21: World Down Syndrome Day

  Every year on March 21, people all around the world come together to celebrate World Down Syndrome Day by wearing brightly colored, mismatched socks. March 21 is symbolic because people with Down syndrome have 3 copies of their 21st chromosome (chromosomes are shaped like socks).

  March 22: 10:00-1:00 Alief I.S.D. Job Fair

  10:00-12:00 Alief ISD Transition Fair @ Marshall Center for Advanced Careers (free event for families of children with disabilities (age 3-22) to meet with agencies and organizations that can meet their needs while in school and transitioning to adulthood)

  9:00-2:00 Alief Cheer Competition @ Taylor High School

  March 26: National Science Appreciation Day

  March 27: Astros attire for Opening Day

  March 28: National Mermaid Day (actually 3/29)

  
  

  April Smore goes out

  March 29: 10:00-1:00 TASTE OF Alief ISD @ Crump

  10:00 Stuff a Bus (school supply and uniform drive) @ Crump

  8:30 Alief International Parade (starts at Alief Middle School and concludes at Alief Auxiliary Field Parking Lot on Dairy Ashford)

  March 31: National Crayon Day

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 stories teach us - We will be working on 8 through the month of March. For writing we will go back to personal narratives.

We will conclude Addition and Subtraction to 40 the first week of March. Students will take the CBA on Addition and Subtraction to 40 on March 6.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JBmi-_-t3XIs96gNCAT8p8xGNSGuKnlp/view?usp=sharing

We follow the Math in Focus curriculum.

This month, students will learn about 2D and 3D shapes. Students will learn to do the following:

• Identify, classify, and describe flat shapes

• Identify, classify, and sort solid shapes

• Compose new shapes and models

• Use shapes to identify, extend, and create patterns

• Students are expected to classify and sort two-dimensional shapes, including rectangles, squares as special rectangles, rhombuses, regular and irregular hexagons, and regular and irregular triangles.

• Shapes may include figures with curved edges and hexagons other than regular hexagons. The language of the SE does not exclude these figures.

The video below reviews the addition and subtraction symbols.

We will be learning

1. Parts of a Plant

• We will identify and compare the parts of a plant

vocabulary: English: leaves, root, flower, stem, plant
Spanish: hojas, raíz, flor, tallo, planta

2. 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

Women's History month celebrates the history and contributions to America by women. We will talk about Eleanor Roosevelt, Sacagawea, Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, and Ruby Bridges.

We will talk about how we measure time using calendars. We will talk about past and present.

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.