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.

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.

• Mrs. Castillo from 10:50 am to 11:20 am
• Mrs. Martinez and Mrs. Hina from 10:55 am to 11:25 am
• Mrs Alvarez and Mrs. Velasquez from 11:00 am to 11:30 am.

The last group leaves at 11:30 for 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.

Module 7 "Zoom in! - Miremos de cerca"

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).

This month we will be working on our grammar, learning about sustantives and verbs as parts of a sentence.

We will also begin our end of the school year testing.

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 sounds: -ck (back, track) -ss (class, grass) -ff (stuff, bluff) -ll (ball, hall) and -z (blitz, buzz)
• Identifying digraphs: /sh/ (fish, shoe) and /ch/ (chain, chip)
• 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 numbers 50 to 100. Students must be able to count, identify and form any given number up to 100.

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.

Also, we will work on classifying, sorting and graphing using different attributes like shape, color, and size.

• Plant's life cycles: Identifying the stages and correct sequence in the plant's life cycle.
• Plant parents and young plants: Understand that young plants have the same physical characteristics and traits than their parents.
• Animal needs: Understand that animals need water, food, shelter and air to survive.

• My personal story. Understand that we all have a story to tell and that each of us has our own experiences that make us who we are.
• Talk about time. Understand that all events have a sequence and how we have activities to do that follow a particular order in time.
• Measure time. Understand the clock and how we read it.

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

• Monday: blue for perseverance, PreK and Kinder parent lunch day, bedtime stories with Mrs. Owens
• Tuesday: #AliefProud, 1st grade parent lunch day
• Wednesday: college / military / career, 2nd grade parent lunch day
• Thursday: blue for Autism Awareness, 3rd grade parent lunch day
• Friday: Rees Spirit Day, 4th grade parent lunch day

• April 1 Kinder – 2nd grade Science IA
  Paraprofessional Appreciation Day (Rees PVAA has absolutely the B*E*S*T paras!!)
• April 2: World Autism Day (wear blue)
  International Children’s Book Day

1st grade Math CBA (shapes and money)
2nd grade Math test (fractions)
3rd and 4th grade Math CBA (measurement)

PreK – 4th grade GROWTH PARTIES

• April 3: No School
• April 6: No School
• April 7 – 10: CLOSED CAMPUS, due to STAAR testing (no parent lunches)
• April 7: 6:30 Alief I.S.D. School Board Meeting
• April 9: 3rd and 4th grade STAAR READING

National Unicorn Day

• April 16: Progress Report Day
• April 15: Kinder Math CBA (measurement)
• April 11: 9:00-12:00 PreK Registration (@ Rees PVAA)

• April 16: National Wear Your Pajamas to Work Day
  2nd grade field trip to Health Museum (REACH ?)

7:00 p.m. Teacher of the Year @ Taylor High School

• Celebrating our Teacher of the Year: Mrs. Dolores Arias
• April 17: National Crawfish Day
  Kinder field trip to Aquarium (REACH ?)

• April 18: Alief Girls’ Conference @ Cummings

• April 20 – 24: CLOSED CAMPUS, due to STAAR testing (no parent lunches)
• April 22: Earth Day, National Shrek Day and National Baseball Day
• April 23: Happy Administrative Professionals Day
• April 22 3rd and 4th grade STAAR MATH
• April 24: Arbor Day
  9:30 PreK ABC Fashion Show - Cafeteria
  2nd grade Math CBA (shapes and area)

May Smore goes out to families

• April 27 – May 1: Alief I.S.D. Volunteer Appreciation Week
• April 28: National Superhero Day
• April 29: 1st grade Math CBA (Numbers to 120)
  Rees PVAA Shooting Stars (Dance) Try-outs (current 2nd and 3rd grade students interested in trying out for Dance Team)
• April 30: National Bugs Bunny Day

5:00-6:30 Family Library Night

• May 1: School Principal’s Day (dress like Mrs. Lara!!) – We Love you Mrs. Lara!

1. Keep a change of clothes in your child's backpack including underwear, socks, pants, and a shirt. Remember that accidents can happen any time. Please update as the weather changes or your child grows.
2. Have your child bring a bottle of water daily.
3. Students who ride the bus must wear their Student ID daily. Morning and afternoon. If your child lost their ID at school - please make sure to pay for a replacement. School IDs must be worn at all times for safety.
4. Behavior folders must be signed daily. Please keep it inside the backpack.
5. Clean the folder and backpack on Fridays.
6. Library day is on Mondays - make sure to have the library book inside your child's backpack.

Mrs. Velasquez and Mrs. Alvarez

• flor.alvarez@aliefisd.net
• rosario.velasqueznavarro@aliefisd.net

Mrs. Castillo

• Patricia.Castillo@aliefisd.net

Mrs. Martinez and Mrs. Hina

• elizabeth.martinez@aliefisd.net
Friu.HinaGulzar@aliefisd.net

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