Mrs. Brown has been teaching at La Honda for 12 years. She has taught 1rst, 2nd, and 5th grades. She has an elementary teaching credential and a masters degree from Chapman University.

Mrs. Brown is the upper elementary school site council represenative and is a trained High Point instructor.

Mrs. Clark is in a long term substitute position for Mrs. McMullen.

Mrs. Daniel has been teching in the Lompoc Unified School District for the past sixteen years. Early in her career she substitute taught, then aided the Migran education preschool as a classroom tutor. Her furst full-time teaching position came just a the time that class size reduction began. She started teaching in 1rst grade and worked her way up through all the grade levels to her current grade, fifth.

Mrs. Daniel is a graduate of Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo, as well as Chapman University, where she received both her teaching credential and CLAD certification.

Mrs. Fowler started teaching at La Honda in 1995. What a wonderful experience it has been! The children, families, and staff make La Honda an enriching and caring school!

Mrs. Hamner has been teaching at La Honda for 9 years. For 5 of those 9 years she had taught a 4/5 combination class. Mrs. Hamner has a Bachelor's degree in Sociology from UCSB, an elementary teaching credential and Master's degree from Chapman University, and a GATE certification from UCSB.

Mrs. Hamner is a trainer for the district's adopted Write From the Beginnning writing program. She has also participated in three years of the South Coast Science Project's summer institute and the UCSB sponsored TEAWET training program for watershed science. Mrs. Hamner also has two units of instruction online found at,

http://teachnet-lab.org/santab2003/tnetarchive/hamner/karen_hamner_body_sys/karen_body_sb_cover.htm

and

http://teachnet-lab.org/santab2003/tnetarchive/hamner/karen_hamner_science_fair/sb_karen_science_cover.htm

Mrs. Hamner is also the technology coach at La Honda and teaches all of her students how to use Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, Excel, and Publisher. Her students take quizzes and do activities at Quia.com, where you will find her classroom website listed above.

Mrs. Hornby has been teaching at La Honda for 15 years. She has taught Kindergarten, 1rst, and 2nd grades. Currently she is teaching 2nd grade.

Second graders are learning addition and subraction facts. We will move into regrouping at the end of the school year.

In reading, students are becoming fluent and working on reading comprehension.

Mrs. Kingsley has been teaching at La Honda since 1997.

She supplements the state curriculum with exciting activities that encourage highetr level thinking! She believes that children enjoy learning through movement, songs, chants, and games.

Some of the extra programs you will find in her classroom are Writer's Workshop, Reader's Theater, Sing-a-Long, and reading buddies.

Throughout the year her students go on several field trips that parents are encouraged to attend. Parent participation is always welcome!

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Mrs. Luken has been teaching fror 25 years - 17 of which have been at La Honda. She has taught 1rst, 2nd, 3rd, and 5th grdes. It is her goal to see ech ane everyone of her students have a successful and enriched 1rst grade year.

Students are working toward:

• becoming "fluent" reders and top notch spellers
• learn math facts and participate in Math Masters

All students must:

• read daily at home for 20-25 minutes
• turn in homework each morning
• turn in reading records each Friday

Mrs. McMullen is out on sick leave until January. Mrs. Clark is her long term substitute.

Mrs. Reilly currently enjoys teaching 3rd/4th grade to a diverse group of students. In the past she has taught 1rst, 3rd, and 5th grdes. In 4th grade we place a large empahsis on "the basics". This incoudes math facts (especially, but not limited to multiplication). We have math facts competitions called "Rainbow Math" that are a lot of fun and really effective. In language Arts we focus on writing and reading. In 4th grade we do a project on the California Missions that supports the language arts standards. I also incorporate science, art and poetry into the year. The students love doing "SPARK" PE, 100 minutes each week.