2nd Grade

January 6: Student Holiday

January 7: STUDENTS BACK TO SCHOOL

January 9: Report Card Day

January 9: Science Interim Assessment

January 15: Reading Language Arts CBA #4

January 20: MLK, Jr. Day – No School

January 23: Math CBA #5

January 30: Progress Report Day

Rees families are welcomed to come and have lunch with their 2nd graders every Wednesday, only two guest at a time are allowed per week. Please sign in to the front office when you arrive.

Ms. De Los Reyes and Mr. River's class: 11:20 - 11:50

Mrs. Gomez and Mrs. Rodriguez's class: 11:25-11:55

Ms. Reyes and Ms. Valencia's class: 11:30-12:00

These dress up days are optional. Students are welcomed to wear their collared shirts with khaki or navy pants on a daily biases.

Use Metacognitive Skills

• Synthesize

• Evaluate

• Summarize

Literary Elements/Author’s Purpose and Craft

• Ideas and Support

• Figurative Language

• Characters

• Text Features

• Text Organization

• Content-Area Words

• Chronological Order

• Determine the value of a collection of coins up to one dollar
• Use the cent symbol, dollar sign, and the decimal point to name the value of a collection of coins
• Understand saving, spending, deposit and withdraw
• Understand the concept of borrowing and lending money
• Home to School Connections: Unit 5

• Model, create, and describe contextual multiplication situations in which equivalent sets of concrete objects are joined; and

• Model, create, and describe contextual division situations in which a set of concrete objects is separated into equivalent sets

• Determine whether a number up to 40 is even or odd using pairings of objects to represent the number

• Home to School Connections: Unit 6

Big Idea: Weather data can be measured and graphed and severe weather varies by region. The Sun provides light and heat and objects in the sky can be studied with special tools.

Weather Information (01/13-01/24)

• Students will measure, record and graph weather information, including temperature and precipitation.

Severe Weather (01/27-01/31)

• Students will investigate different types of severe weather events such as a hurricane, tornado or flood and explain that some events are more likely than others in a given region.

• Students will learn how to Identify physical features of Earth, such as landforms and bodies of water.

• Students will learn to describe how the location of landforms and bodies of water are shown on physical maps.

Weather and Climate

• Students will learn how weather and climate affect where and how people, plants, and animals live.

• Students will learn to recognize that areas can be divided into regions with unifying characteristics, such as climate and environment.

• Students will learn how to describe weather conditions and understand the effects of sudden weather changes.

Our Environment

• Students learn to Identify, and compare and contrast the characteristics of urban, suburban, and rural areas.

• Students will learn to recognize how geographic characteristics such as weather, climate, and location can influence people’s decisions about how and where to live.

Where People Choose to Live

• Students will how the availability of natural resources affect where people live and the activities they can do.

• Students will learn how weather and seasonal patterns affect where people choose to live.They will also learn how natural hazards affect where people live.

• Students will learn to identify different kinds of communities, including urban, rural, and suburban, and how their characteristics affect the activities people do.

• christina.delosreyes@aliefisd.net
  
• christopher.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
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