Any QUESTIONS may be directed to the teacher, Ms Tetley at any time 307-5400 x 41706.

Best time to phone are from 8 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. daily. Most IEP meetings will be scheduled during the school day during the teacher's prep period, which rotates through the school day.

Expect a phone call from me approximately once a month, whether your child is behaving perfectly or not. If you change your home phone (or cell) number be sure to notify the office so in case of an emergency, they may be able to contact you.

Ms Tetley
Ms Sierra

Ms. Tetley is the editor and advisor to the The Viking Vessel, the school newspaper, which is published monthly. It is sold for 25 cents at lunch during the week it is published each month by the members of the newspaer staff.


Ms. Tetley is a published author. She was the featured subject of a front page November 28th, 2005 Redlands Daily Facts newspaper article. It was about her newest book titled "Images of America-Crestline" published by Arcadia Publishing. The article also noted her other book "Images of America-Lake Arrowhead" is now available at Barnes and Noble in Redlands. She does frequent book signings at various bookstores throught the region.

Ms Tetley also writes a weeekly newspaper history column in The Alpenhorn News located in Lake Arrowhead/Crestline. She has been a professional reporter for newspapers for the past 10 years and previously did free-lance newspaper work for 20 years. Prior to that she worked in radio. She also writes for magazines and does public speaking.

We are currently writing good quality five sentence paragraphs on a variety of subjects. If they need something to do they may practice creating good sentences or writing a paragrah on some subject in which they have interest.
Working on reading Comprehension
Reading logs are due every Wednesday with a parent's signature. Each quarter they will do a book report will be done on what they've read. On the Reading logs I expect 30 mins of reading four times a week for a total of two hours a week, signed by parents.
Practive cursive whenever you have nothing else to do, either reading it or writing it.

We are working on the biome unit in science. Each student has chosen a biome and will be following the question worksheet and create a poster or diorama on their biome. They will then teach the other students about their biome.

They are working on Ancient civilizations, right we are woking on Mesoamerica, focusing on the Mayas

Reading Comprehension, as students do reading logs and have them tell someone orally about what they have read.
Big word homework. Each week a large word is sent home with the expectation that parents will use the word at least daily with the kids and then they make smaller words from those letters, and return on Friday. This is a family homework assignment for the development of comprehension and expanding vocabulary.

doing daily lessons in class. It becomes Homework when not completed in class. Practice multiplication facts, skip counting, counting by fractions of 1/2 and 1/4 and whatever we are working on when you do not have math homework