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Fellini 6th Grade Evidence Blog

“To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.”
– John Muir

Year Review

 He’s still very much into Pokemon and Minecraft but has grown a love for video games, now he plays Call of Duty, Skyrim, Flight Simulator, and Roblox. His passion for all things Greek/Roman mythology and Rick Riordan persists and he continues to listen to his audiobooks on repeat. This year we saw the Statue of Nike at the Louve in Paris! He saw the Mona Lisa, and his favorite “Le Chat”. He is now a Blue Belt in Kungfu and continues to grow. He’s not always happy to go, but always seems satisfied when he leaves. He has continued at Mathnasium for the entire year and I’ve seen improvement. I’m so proud of him and all the work he’s done. He continued to go to Take Roots every Friday but at the end of the year, he found a new home at Miami Nature School, an Acton Academy, which he will be attending full-time next year. He also took an epic trip to Alaska on top of his Christmas vacation to Paris and Germany.  This year he did so many amazing things! This kid is well-traveled.

Subjects

Here is a list of subjects we taught this school year. Click on the button to take you to the subject and the grey arrow to bring you back.

Forest School Mathematics Language Arts Science Foreign Language Extra Curricular

Forest School

Fellini attended Take Roots Forest School again! He went once a week and enjoyed the time outdoors to play and discover everything about the outdoors. They learned about different Florida ecosystems at Greynolds Park, Mizell-Johnson State Park (beachside), and Big Cypress National Preserve. They did arts and crafts projects with sustainable materials, did a beach day and although he was the oldest kid there, he always looked forward to his fridays.

Toward the end of the year we went to do a trail day at Miami Nature School. We hadn’t intended on enrolling full-time but he absolutely loved it, so we finished the entire year. He really enjoyed talking politics with his instructors and used that as his end-of-the-year showcase. He liked that he could cook/make things when he wanted, so he made everyone tea. He did lots of clay work and explored his love for Algebra with Khan Academy.

Mathematics

We continued with Mathnasium 3 times a week in addition to his regular studies. We used Right Start Math Levels F & E, Learn Math Fast, and continued to work on Reflex for his multiplication facts.

Fellini’s progress report on his multiplication facts. He started at 5.2% fluency and is now 62% fluent.

Language Arts

This year we used the Torchlight program. We didn’t use the entire curriculum but used many useful parts of it and the reading list. We used Vocabulary.com to work on his vocab and word knowledge orally. We used Torchlight for written vocab and to teach how to edit. We also used  All About Spelling Level 3 and Touch Type Read and Spell. He has progressed to level 4 in TTRS. Both programs are made specifically for Dyslexic learners. He also took an online writing class through Outschool which was fantastic. The teacher always gave back personalized feedback and I just loved it. I hope we can accommodate the same course next year while he is in Nature School.

Here is a link to all his essays:

Rhetorical Device: Atomic Bomb

Amphibians vs. Reptiles

Apollo: The Road to Awesomeness

Duck-Billed Platypus



Science

This year we learned all about dinosaurs, we learned about fossils, and the story of how the world formed with the Build Your Library Dinosaur curriculum! Fellini loves science so we did plenty of other science activities and learning experiences. He learned about bees and different types of flora and fauna at Fruit and Spice Park. He learned to suture a papaya and we talked about autopsy and incisions. He learned about Geologic history, the beginnings of Earth, and the beginnings of life up to modern-day humans. The books in BYL were some excellent resources that will be with us for a long time.  Specifically, the Usborne World History Encyclopedia, When Whales Walked, Prehistoric Life on Earth, and How Much in a Million. Such great books and we learned so much together.

Fellini also had the unique opportunity to go on a Shark Tagging expedition with UM researchers.

Like everyone, we watched the eclipse and did a little activity.

Foreign Language

Fellini has continued his studies in Latin with teacher Kristen Kanipe, MA. He has advanced past the Veni Vini Vici series and into the Audentes Fortuna Luvat: Intermediate Level Latin. He’s working on part 4. The series so far is learning through discussion with less focus on writing and memorization, to foster the love of the language.

Here is what his teacher writes of him:

” Fellini is doing exceedingly well with his Latin studies. I truly could not be prouder of him. It’s not only that his understanding of the language is deepening with each class, but that he’s increasing in his confidence. Fellini has always been an engaging, imaginative, and curious learner, and he’s always been quite enthusiastic and participative in our class meetings, but I do know that there have been times when he’s felt a bit self-conscious or intimidated, and this has sometimes impacted his willingness to translate certain passages or to answer certain questions. I’ve been extremely pleased to see him feeling increasingly excited to translate even more challenging passages, and I have been impressed by how well he’s understanding the grammar. We recently spent quite a bit of time reviewing noun endings and discussing the dative case (I believe I mentioned in my previous message that Fellini demonstrated an understanding of how an indirect object (this is what we use the dative case for) functions by coming up with several sentences involving a senator harming the emperor), but in our most recent meeting, we shifted our focus back to verbs. Sometimes when we make a transition after focusing so intently on another area, things can feel a bit fuzzy, particularly when a learner has also been away from class (as Fellini was during his recent trip). Yet Fellini remembered quite a bit from our previous discussions of verbs. I get the sense that the language is coming together for him more easily; while it still requires effort (and Fellini always gives his best effort!), I think he feels increasingly comfortable with it, and this is evident in his growing excitement around translation and grammatical exercises. He’s even been keen to translate an entire story on his own! Because he is putting himself out there so much, he’s ensuring that he’s working with the language on a more intense level, and this has benefited him tremendously: I see a big difference in not only the accuracy of his translation work, but in the ease with which he seems to put the pieces together. I’ve also been incredibly impressed with the amount of vocabulary he’s been retaining. Overall, I really cannot say enough good things about his work, his attitude, and his progress, and I am so pleased to be able to offer such a stellar progress report.

Fellini is a unique and creative learner with a great sense of humor. In our last class, as we were beginning our discussion of the second person plural for verbs, I asked him if “y’all” is used much in Florida. He said it wasn’t (and that it was more of an Alabama thing!), and then he proceeded to say that many southerners say, “yeehaw, y’all!” I don’t know that this is necessarily true, but I appreciated his linking of the two sounds; he’s very clever and quick witted. Fellini makes me laugh at least once (and generally much more) in every class, and I am pleased that he seems to find the classroom such a comfortable environment.”


Extra Curricular Activities

He is still in Black Belt Club for Kungfu. He goes to Kungfu for 2 hours every Monday and Wednesday. He went to Paris in winter and visited the Louve. He saw the Mona Lisa, The Statue of Nike (which he was sure to take a picture with), and many other notable works of art. It was his second time in Paris.

He also took the most amazing vacation with his father to Oregon & Alaska! Perfect for my little scientist. He panned for Gold in Oregon, visited a dog sled team, went on a glacier (drank the water) and went on a whale watching expedition. He also visited a wild life refuge and saw many animals. Most notable and his favorite was a Moose. They also stayed in a Yurt and did some hiking up a mountain.

This year, we joined a local Wednesday Homeschool meetup group and did lots of activities. He also did Skate Science.

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Fellini 4th Grade Evidence Blog

“Nothing like ADHD and a good fight to the death to make time fly.”
Rick Riordan



Year Review

What an absolutely glorious year! Fellini had an eventful 4th-grade year, to say the least. He started the year with a European vacation to his favorite places from mythology. The Parthenon and Pompeii in Greece and the Coliseum in Rome! He also visited the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, visited London to see some of the Harry Potter filming locations in real life, and went to the Effiel Tower in Paris, France. He’s become quite the little traveler.  He ended the year with his first promotion in KungFu, following in the footsteps of his father. He also had a long-needed and essential psychoeducational evaluation. This year he was finally, officially, diagnosed with Dyslexia and ADHD.


Subjects

Here is a list of subjects we taught this school year. Click on the button to take you to the subject and the grey arrow to bring you back.


Mathematics Language Arts History Geography

Foreign Language Science Music Art



Mathematics


Fellini is using Teaching Textbooks Math 3 this year. We also supplemented Multiplication practice throughout the year with the help of Multiplication in 7 days, Mr. DeMaio multiplication songs, and right start multiplication games. Per the recommendation of his evaluating Psychologist, we also jumped back into Xtra Math for repetition. Because of his working memory issues, we need to make repetition an essential element of his learning pathway.


We also did a really rad geometry project-based learning assignment.






Language Arts


It was an FLVS type of year for us. I needed a curriculum that was challenging and kept us on a schedule. FLVS is perfect for this. I saw his writing ability (essay, idea formation, transition words, etc) improve vastly! Instead of having him hand write or type everything, we used an iPad with text-to-speech so he could get his ideas out without the handicap he faces in physical writing. His essays from the start of the year vs his essays at the end of the year show stellar progress. He learned opinion, research, and main idea essay writing. He also had the added benefit of taking weekly quizzes and test. I personally believe test-taking is a skill and welcome it to extent.  He has working memory issues so the exams were definitely tough for him. It’s a skill we’re going to continue working on. Especially studying and note-taking but that will come in time.  I’m very proud of his progress so far.


We took a break from spelling during the school year in order to concentrate on the FLVS curriculum but jumped back into spelling and handwriting this summer. He went back to All About Spelling an Orton-Gillingham Method that’s helpful for dyslexic students. He also has daily writing prompts. He can write about anything as long as it’s three sentences, handwritten, and has some level of complexity.

His reading this year was through FLVS and audiobooks. We are also working on reading his DnD books as a way to incorporate interesting reading. So far he’s more engaged than when we read Wings of Fire, The Horse and His Boy, or Rick Riordan books. Especially the Monster DnD guide! He’s usually pretty excited to read it.  He gets fatigued but he works through those big complex words with lots of success. I keep telling him that the more he reads, the better he’ll get and the less fatigued he’ll be…but you know, he’s ten and doesn’t believe me. One day, you will see little boy!




History


Finished STOW Vol. 3 this year. Here is an example of him creating in Minecraft. It was a fun time for him. He’d listen to the audiobook and work on creating the assignment. Later I would give him oral quizzes.


A HUGE part of his history lessons this year was all the traveling he did. One specific place of mention was the Anne Frank house in Amsterdam. We went and traveled back in time to war-torn Amsterdam and spent some time inside the hidden annex. What a tragic tale but what an important part of history. He also made it to The Globe Theater in London, the Coliseum in Rome, the old senate (where Julius Caeser died!), the ancient town of Pompeii, Mt. Vesuvius, and the Parthenon in Athens.
his constant reading of The Percy Jackson series and traveling to Greece and Rome. More pics in the geography section.




Geography


Geography/History this year was literally traveling the world! He went to France, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, and Greece. He’s turned into quite the little traveler.  Here are some of the pictures from our adventures around the world.



Foreign Language


Fellini started off this year with sign language then switched back to Japanese. It’s through the same teacher as Yesenia. Mayuko Guidi. She is a native Japanese speaker and has a BA in linguistics from Japan.




Science


Deering Estate Ecoexplorers Academy was again part of our science curriculum this year. We incorporated some experimentation and engineering in little projects throughout the year.


We went back to Surf Science again for some fun marine-movement-based science class.




Music


We went for drumming lessons at Wynwood School of Music and then switched to drums at home.



Art


Fellini took art on FLVS for the first part of the year before deciding he wasn’t into it anymore. He made some cool little projects though!

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]]> Fellini Fifth Grade https://leogonacademy.com/fellini-fifth-grade/ Mon, 10 Jul 2023 14:51:36 +0000 https://leogonacademy.com/?p=2401 The post Fellini Fifth Grade appeared first on Leogon Academy of Arts & Science.

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Fellini 4th Grade Evidence Blog

“Nothing like ADHD and a good fight to the death to make time fly.”
Rick Riordan



Year Review

What an absolutely glorious year! Fellini had an eventful 4th-grade year, to say the least. He started the year with a European vacation to his favorite places from mythology. The Parthenon and Pompeii in Greece and the Coliseum in Rome! He also visited the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, visited London to see some of the Harry Potter filming locations in real life, and went to the Effiel Tower in Paris, France. He’s become quite the little traveler.  He ended the year with his first promotion in KungFu, following in the footsteps of his father. He also had a long-needed and essential psychoeducational evaluation. This year he was finally, officially, diagnosed with Dyslexia and ADHD.


Subjects

Here is a list of subjects we taught this school year. Click on the button to take you to the subject and the grey arrow to bring you back.


Mathematics Language Arts History Geography

Foreign Language Science Music Art



Mathematics


Fellini is using Teaching Textbooks Math 3 this year. We also supplemented Multiplication practice throughout the year with the help of Multiplication in 7 days, Mr. DeMaio multiplication songs, and right start multiplication games. Per the recommendation of his evaluating Psychologist, we also jumped back into Xtra Math for repetition. Because of his working memory issues, we need to make repetition an essential element of his learning pathway.


We also did a really rad geometry project-based learning assignment.






Language Arts


It was an FLVS type of year for us. I needed a curriculum that was challenging and kept us on a schedule. FLVS is perfect for this. I saw his writing ability (essay, idea formation, transition words, etc) improve vastly! Instead of having him hand write or type everything, we used an iPad with text-to-speech so he could get his ideas out without the handicap he faces in physical writing. His essays from the start of the year vs his essays at the end of the year show stellar progress. He learned opinion, research, and main idea essay writing. He also had the added benefit of taking weekly quizzes and test. I personally believe test-taking is a skill and welcome it to extent.  He has working memory issues so the exams were definitely tough for him. It’s a skill we’re going to continue working on. Especially studying and note-taking but that will come in time.  I’m very proud of his progress so far.


We took a break from spelling during the school year in order to concentrate on the FLVS curriculum but jumped back into spelling and handwriting this summer. He went back to All About Spelling an Orton-Gillingham Method that’s helpful for dyslexic students. He also has daily writing prompts. He can write about anything as long as it’s three sentences, handwritten, and has some level of complexity.

His reading this year was through FLVS and audiobooks. We are also working on reading his DnD books as a way to incorporate interesting reading. So far he’s more engaged than when we read Wings of Fire, The Horse and His Boy, or Rick Riordan books. Especially the Monster DnD guide! He’s usually pretty excited to read it.  He gets fatigued but he works through those big complex words with lots of success. I keep telling him that the more he reads, the better he’ll get and the less fatigued he’ll be…but you know, he’s ten and doesn’t believe me. One day, you will see little boy!




History


Finished STOW Vol. 3 this year. Here is an example of him creating in Minecraft. It was a fun time for him. He’d listen to the audiobook and work on creating the assignment. Later I would give him oral quizzes.


A HUGE part of his history lessons this year was all the traveling he did. One specific place of mention was the Anne Frank house in Amsterdam. We went and traveled back in time to war-torn Amsterdam and spent some time inside the hidden annex. What a tragic tale but what an important part of history. He also made it to The Globe Theater in London, the Coliseum in Rome, the old senate (where Julius Caeser died!), the ancient town of Pompeii, Mt. Vesuvius, and the Parthenon in Athens.
his constant reading of The Percy Jackson series and traveling to Greece and Rome. More pics in the geography section.




Geography


Geography/History this year was literally traveling the world! He went to France, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, and Greece. He’s turned into quite the little traveler.  Here are some of the pictures from our adventures around the world.



Foreign Language


Fellini started off this year with sign language then switched back to Japanese. It’s through the same teacher as Yesenia. Mayuko Guidi. She is a native Japanese speaker and has a BA in linguistics from Japan.




Science


Deering Estate Ecoexplorers Academy was again part of our science curriculum this year. We incorporated some experimentation and engineering in little projects throughout the year.


We went back to Surf Science again for some fun marine-movement-based science class.




Music


We went for drumming lessons at Wynwood School of Music and then switched to drums at home.



Art


Fellini took art on FLVS for the first part of the year before deciding he wasn’t into it anymore. He made some cool little projects though!

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Yesenia 5th Grade Evidence Blog

“Listen to me! Outward appearances are meaningless! What you see before your eyes is nothing but the skin that wraps my true self! My meaning and worth can be judged only by the contents of my work!”

– Hifumi Yamada. Danganronpa

Year in Review

Jesse had an interesting year. She has switched from mainly being taught by me, mom, to more independent forms of school. She prefers it! We started the year trying out Well Trained Mind Academy and found that it was too hard, so we switch to solely Florida Virtual School. I’ve been very proud of her in that her work is excellent and she does a really great job of submitting her assignments and tracking what’s due.  She is after all, an 11/12 year old so she still needs some guidance to improve her work quality, but all things considered, she did great working independently. She really enjoyed learning to play guitar and singing this year. She started Muay Thai about a month ago and is getting better and better as time goes on. She also has decided to be gender fluid this year and has changed her preferred name to Jesse. Pronouns are still the same but may change. She had a year full of travel! She went to France, Italy, Germany, and the Netherlands! She saw The Leaning Tower of Pisa, Anne Frank’s Secret Annex, and the Effiel Tower among other things.  What a great year full of adventure.

Subjects

Here is a list of subjects we taught this school year. Click on the button to take you to the subject and the grey arrow to bring you back.

Mathematics Language Arts History Geography
Foreign Language Science Music Art

Mathematics


Yesenia worked on teaching textbooks this year. She tried hard in every lesson, consistently did well, and scored a 95% average in the course. She’s still completing it over the summer. She really prefers to be an independent learner and has enjoyed the course because of that. The course material covers long division, multiplication, fractions, decimals, and mixed fractions.


Language Arts


This year Yesenia used FLVS and earned a B with an 85% average. She did compare and contrast, research, and narrative writing. This year her big project was to read The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and create a commercial for it. She didn’t add any of the effects she wrote in her treatment. This coming school year I’m going to work more closely with her now that Fellini will be in school because she needs a little more accountability.

Here is the commercial.

Her preferred reading these days is fanfiction and comic books! She spends most of her day reading ( and sometimes creating) stories from her favorite fandoms.


History


Yesenia finished the Story of The World Vol. 3.  She worked it with Minecraft and answered questions after each chapter.

Last year she had read Anne Frank’s Diary. THIS year she went and actually visited the annex in Amsterdam.


Geography


Geography/History this year was literally traveling the world! She went to France, Germany, Netherlands, and Italy.  Here are some of the pictures from her adventures around the world.



Japanese


Yesenia takes Japanese lessons once a week and is still taking them with Ms. Mayuko.


Science


Yesenia started the year with a Chemistry Class from WTM but we immediately disenrolled. She hated it and it really felt like a high school-level chemistry class. We switched her to the Deering Estate and she did much better. At Deering Estate they switched learning topics from Marine Biology to Wilderness. She also enjoyed making a few new friends.


Music


She took guitar and singing the first half of the year. Here is her first recital.


Art


Yesenia continued on her animation path. She enrolled in the Animation Course and took a basic animation class. The course was really good because it was taught by a former animator and graded by current working animators. Here’s some examples of her work.


She also took Art on FLVS for the first semester and was an actor in The Royal Chessmen show at the Camelot Days Renaissance Faire.

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]]> Fellini Fourth Grade https://leogonacademy.com/fellini-fourth-grade/ Tue, 12 Jul 2022 20:50:44 +0000 http://leogonacademy.com/?p=2217 The post Fellini Fourth Grade appeared first on Leogon Academy of Arts & Science.

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Fellini 4th Grade Evidence Blog

“Nothing like ADHD and a good fight to the death to make time fly.”
Rick Riordan



Year Review

What an absolutely glorious year! Fellini had an eventful 4th-grade year, to say the least. He started the year with a European vacation to his favorite places from mythology. The Parthenon and Pompeii in Greece and the Coliseum in Rome! He also visited the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, visited London to see some of the Harry Potter filming locations in real life, and went to the Effiel Tower in Paris, France. He’s become quite the little traveler.  He ended the year with his first promotion in KungFu, following in the footsteps of his father. He also had a long-needed and essential psychoeducational evaluation. This year he was finally, officially, diagnosed with Dyslexia and ADHD.


Subjects

Here is a list of subjects we taught this school year. Click on the button to take you to the subject and the grey arrow to bring you back.


Mathematics Language Arts History Geography

Foreign Language Science Music Art



Mathematics


Fellini is using Teaching Textbooks Math 3 this year. We also supplemented Multiplication practice throughout the year with the help of Multiplication in 7 days, Mr. DeMaio multiplication songs, and right start multiplication games. Per the recommendation of his evaluating Psychologist, we also jumped back into Xtra Math for repetition. Because of his working memory issues, we need to make repetition an essential element of his learning pathway.


We also did a really rad geometry project-based learning assignment.






Language Arts


It was an FLVS type of year for us. I needed a curriculum that was challenging and kept us on a schedule. FLVS is perfect for this. I saw his writing ability (essay, idea formation, transition words, etc) improve vastly! Instead of having him hand write or type everything, we used an iPad with text-to-speech so he could get his ideas out without the handicap he faces in physical writing. His essays from the start of the year vs his essays at the end of the year show stellar progress. He learned opinion, research, and main idea essay writing. He also had the added benefit of taking weekly quizzes and test. I personally believe test-taking is a skill and welcome it to extent.  He has working memory issues so the exams were definitely tough for him. It’s a skill we’re going to continue working on. Especially studying and note-taking but that will come in time.  I’m very proud of his progress so far.


We took a break from spelling during the school year in order to concentrate on the FLVS curriculum but jumped back into spelling and handwriting this summer. He went back to All About Spelling an Orton-Gillingham Method that’s helpful for dyslexic students. He also has daily writing prompts. He can write about anything as long as it’s three sentences, handwritten, and has some level of complexity.

His reading this year was through FLVS and audiobooks. We are also working on reading his DnD books as a way to incorporate interesting reading. So far he’s more engaged than when we read Wings of Fire, The Horse and His Boy, or Rick Riordan books. Especially the Monster DnD guide! He’s usually pretty excited to read it.  He gets fatigued but he works through those big complex words with lots of success. I keep telling him that the more he reads, the better he’ll get and the less fatigued he’ll be…but you know, he’s ten and doesn’t believe me. One day, you will see little boy!




History


Finished STOW Vol. 3 this year. Here is an example of him creating in Minecraft. It was a fun time for him. He’d listen to the audiobook and work on creating the assignment. Later I would give him oral quizzes.


A HUGE part of his history lessons this year was all the traveling he did. One specific place of mention was the Anne Frank house in Amsterdam. We went and traveled back in time to war-torn Amsterdam and spent some time inside the hidden annex. What a tragic tale but what an important part of history. He also made it to The Globe Theater in London, the Coliseum in Rome, the old senate (where Julius Caeser died!), the ancient town of Pompeii, Mt. Vesuvius, and the Parthenon in Athens.
his constant reading of The Percy Jackson series and traveling to Greece and Rome. More pics in the geography section.




Geography


Geography/History this year was literally traveling the world! He went to France, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, and Greece. He’s turned into quite the little traveler.  Here are some of the pictures from our adventures around the world.



Foreign Language


Fellini started off this year with sign language then switched back to Japanese. It’s through the same teacher as Yesenia. Mayuko Guidi. She is a native Japanese speaker and has a BA in linguistics from Japan.




Science


Deering Estate Ecoexplorers Academy was again part of our science curriculum this year. We incorporated some experimentation and engineering in little projects throughout the year.


We went back to Surf Science again for some fun marine-movement-based science class.




Music


We went for drumming lessons at Wynwood School of Music and then switched to drums at home.



Art


Fellini took art on FLVS for the first part of the year before deciding he wasn’t into it anymore. He made some cool little projects though!

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]]> Fellini Third Grade https://leogonacademy.com/fellini-third-grade/ Thu, 08 Jul 2021 17:42:56 +0000 http://leogonacademy.com/?p=2093 The post Fellini Third Grade appeared first on Leogon Academy of Arts & Science.

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Fellini 3rd Grade Evidence Blog

“To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” ~ Audrey Hepburn

Subjects

Here is a list of subjects we taught this school year. Click on the button to take you to the subject and the grey arrow to bring you back.

Mathematics Language Arts History Geography
Foreign Language Science Music Art

Mathematics


Fellini is still working with Right Start this year. We are chugging along, and he’s doing great. He likes most of the games except for corners, but he really has gotten so much better at it since the beginning of the school year. I like to remind him where he’s coming from and how much better he’s gotten. Here is PDF of his schoolwork completed thus far.


Language Arts


This year Fellini worked with an occupational therapist to work on his letter reversal through handwriting. It helped some. He needed to work on his writing and she really helped develop his letter writing.

We used Spell Zone and dictation to work on spelling this year. I would read a passage to him, and he would spell it out loud to me while I wrote it on the board. This served two purposes. So he wouldn’t get frustrated erasing if he got it wrong, and so he could work on spelling words with some of the rules we learned in All About Spelling. We will continue working on the program the next year.

For reading, he read Charlotte’s Web out loud to me, mostly by himself! This was such a big step ahead of working with the All About Reading programs. I was so proud of him. His comprehension assignment was to work on his own creative story based on characters from Charlotte’s Web. He choose one of the baby spiders who flew away on a spider parachute and wrote this lovely story. It is still a work in progress.  He also had to write a dictionary based on new words we learned in Charlotte’s Web.

Next reading assignment was Wings of Fire, a graphic novel and then we switched to the Wings of Fire full-length novel. We still have work to do until he’s completely competent in reading on his own, but we are in a good place. Here is his reading log for the year.

Lastly, I wanted to include a fun project they completed for the presidential inauguration this year. They both drafted and performed their own inauguration speeches! Here is his valiant effort.


History


We started the first 6 chapters of STOW Vol. 3 this summer. We’re on a break now, but will continue throughout the next school year. The kids have enrolled in a Minecraft STOW class and I’m excited to see what they create! To be continued in August…


Geography


Geography this year started out with the basics. The continents, the oceans, the cardinal directions. Then we switched to a week-by-week study of the continent of Africa. We keep it very simple. Watch a video (Geography Now! videos on Youtube), have a short discussion and write in our Geography notebooks. The kids loved the Geography Now! videos and would often ask for them outside of school.


Foreign Language


Fellini started off the year with an enthusiasm to learn Japanese. He used Duolingo app on his iPad. I think he questions his ability to learn a language and felt like he wasn’t learning much. He has a very slight communication problem, he finds it hard to put his ideas into words, so I think that’s where it comes from. He came to me with the desire to learn sign language halfway through the school year. I agreed, and now in retrospect, I truly believe it was a great idea. Perhaps learning a language with more concrete and tactile concepts will give him the confidence he needs to learn a new language. We use a tutor through TakeLessons who is actually deaf, a native speaker of sign language! He’s enjoyed the classes thus far.


Science


Science-this year we used The Elements: Ingredients of the Universe by Ellen Johnston Mchenry as our science curriculum. We learned all about electrons, protons, and neutrons. We explored the periodic table. They memorized elements 1-50 and the element groups for the memory work this year. We also did lots of fun experiments! Slime of course is always a given, but we found how to detect oxygen, make molecules out of food, and launched a homemade rocket. We also played cards with our periodic table matching games.

Here is a video of him reciting the periodic table. The kids learned it using the Aseop Science periodic table song.

This year Fellini also spent half the year taking classes at the Deering Estate. It was a drop-off program, so I didn’t get a ton of pictures, but they would spend the day at the estate learning about Marine biology or wildlife! The themes would switch month to month. This class also propelled them to learn how to ride bikes without training wheels, because there was a day where the whole class brought in their bikes and rode through the rock pineland. How cool! Some other cool things they did were wade through the swamp discovering animals, dissect a lionfish, kayak and also create a pH indicator out of red cabbage. He loved this class so much, he is going again the next school year.


Music


This year we switched completely and took drum lessons! We had an excellent teacher who can 2x a week to teach them through pop songs.


Art


Fellini tried his hand at Flip a clip this year, following in his sister’s footsteps. Flip a clip is an animation app for iPad.

He also made this cute collage and poem.

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]]> Yesenia Fifth Grade https://leogonacademy.com/yesenia-fifth-grade/ Thu, 08 Jul 2021 00:03:45 +0000 http://leogonacademy.com/?p=2095 The post Yesenia Fifth Grade appeared first on Leogon Academy of Arts & Science.

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Yesenia 5th Grade Evidence Blog

“To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” ~ Audrey Hepburn

Subjects

Here is a list of subjects we taught this school year. Click on the button to take you to the subject and the grey arrow to bring you back.

Mathematics Language Arts History Geography
Foreign Language Science Music Art

Mathematics


We continued working with Right Start moving on to Right Start Level E this year CLICK HERE FOR PDF . Yesenia still did not like the games in the Right Start although I thought they were great. This year we touched on multiplication, division, geometry, and fractions. Yesenia also started working with Beast Academy. The questions from BA are very challenging so they don’t really correspond to the grade levels exactly.  The questions certainly stop and make you think! We started at 3A worked together to answer the questions that left her stumped (to be fair, it took a lot of trial and error for me too!) She always liked the Brightside puzzles so I thought let’s give BA a try!






Language Arts


This year for Language Arts, Yesenia used Spell Zone and Vocabulary from Classical Roots, LVL 5. The vocab book is especially great because it breaks down the vocab by root words which really helps you to decode words in general. She gets weekly verbal quizzes.

She read the Diary of Anne Frank graphic novel which culminated in a visit to the Holocaust Memorial in Miami Beach and a short creative writing essay based on Anne’s time spent in the Annex.  We are planning a visit to the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam this September while we are in Germany visiting Yesenia’s father.

Yesenia also read Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout by Lauren Redniss. Marie Curie is Yesenia’s favorite scientist and so we capitalized on that enthusiasm and incorporated it into our reading for the year. To show her comprehension, Yesenia made a poster with ten facts that she learned from the book! It’s going to be useful next year because we plan to continue on the exploration of Chemistry with an online class at WTM institute that includes a written assignment on a famous scientist. 

Mostly her free-form writing assignments were tailored to her interests.  She used her time to write fanfics of her favorite show, My Hero Academia. She also was given time to write character descriptions for the animated series she is in the process of creating.

Linked is her reading log for the year.


History


We started the first 6 chapters of STOW Vol. 3 this summer. We’re on a break now, but will continue throughout the next school year. The kids have enrolled in a Minecraft STOW class and I’m excited to see what they create! To be continued in August…


Geography


Geography this year started out with the basics. The continents, the oceans, the cardinal directions. Then we switched to a week-by-week study of the African countries. We kept it very simple. Watch a video (Geography Now! videos on Youtube), add them into our geography books, and have a short discussion. We are going to continue our studies into the new school year. The kids loved the Geography Now! videos and would often ask for them outside of school.



Japanese


Yesenia wanted to switch to Japanese this year! She loves all things Japan and anime so of course I obliged and said yes! She first started with daily Duolingo lessons but once I knew she was serious about her studies, we switched to a weekly tutor (Ms. Mayuko) through TakeLessons. She also had some study sessions with a close friend of mine and they geeked out about all things Anime and practiced their Japanese together.


Science


Science-this year we used The Elements: Ingredients of the Universe by Ellen Johnston Mchenry as our science curriculum. We learned all about electrons, protons, and neutrons. We explored the periodic table. They memorized elements 1-50 and the element groups for the memory work this year. We also did lots of fun experiments! Slime of course is always a given, but we found how to detect oxygen, make molecules out of food, and launched a homemade rocket. We also played cards with our periodic table matching games.

Here is a video of her reciting the periodic table. The kids learned it using the Aseop Science periodic table song.


Music


This year we switched completely and took Ukeule lessons! We had an excellent teacher who can 2x a week to teach them through pop songs.


Art


Yesenia continued on her animation path. She moved into creating original characters on Procreate on the iPad. She is currently taking classes with 21 Draw to learn how to shadow better and draw those pesky hands!

She loves to create little gifs of her drawings. She even made a cute gif for her friend’s birthday.

Yesenia has been dreaming up an animation series, all full of original characters and stories. It’s a big and daunting project so we are taking it slowly. She currently is working on character descriptions.

She also got a lesson from her step-father on how to edit videos with Adobe Premiere. She plans to reopen her YouTube channel with original content.

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]]> Fellini Second Grade https://leogonacademy.com/fellini-second-grade/ Sun, 12 Jul 2020 15:47:09 +0000 http://leogonacademy.com/?p=1953 The post Fellini Second Grade appeared first on Leogon Academy of Arts & Science.

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Fellini 2nd Grade Evidence Blog

“Success is the sum of small efforts-repeated day in and day out.”

-Robert Collier

Subjects

Here is a list of subjects we taught this school year. Click on the button to take you to the subject and the grey arrow to bring you back.

Mathematics Language Arts Reading Spelling History Geography
Spanish Science Music Physical Education Art

Mathematics


We continued this year with Singapore Math. He finished 1B and we decided to switch programs to Right Start Mathematics. I really like the Singapore style of teaching but there was too much work that left little time for other subjects, it seemed to dominate our schooldays. Plus I felt the kids would benefit from more game-based learning.  I admittedly miss Singapore Dimensions, but the kids grumble less so that really seals the deal. The hardest part of homeschooling is dealing with unmotivated learners.

I wished I used right start with Fellini from the start for most things, although he didn’t really like the abacus, in the beginning, the method of instruction is what works best for him. He enjoys the math balance and games like “Go to the Dump” (Go Fish). The repetition in the warmup really works well for him.

Here are some of the videos our his schoolwork for evidence:

For our math facts, we use Reflex Math, it’s fun and has different games as rewards for completing basic facts. It’s what I thought was a fun way to do drills. Fellini started at 5% fluency and is now up to 51% fluency! It’s been a challenge for him because he does have the added challenge of number reversal. Although that is improving day by day. He had the tendency throughout the year to reverse not only numbers like 6 and 9 but numbers like 21 and 12. We spent a lot of extra time making sure he understood place value and used a lot of manipulative to help his mind associate place values a bit better. I’ve seen a big improvement although we still have some way to go.

During the summer in order to retain some of our skills and get better at word problems we use Bedtime Math. It’s fun and challenging and a great way to work on our word problem skills.



Language Arts


This year we are using mad libs, poem recitation, and narration for our grammar work.

Here he is reciting two poems, “The Goops” by Gellett Burgess he did at the beginning of the year and a speech by Theodore Roosevelt commonly referred to as “Man in The Arena” he did at the end of the year.

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For writing we worked on his B/D reversal with a packet I found on Bay tree Blog. She’s a board-certified Education Specialist out of San Mateo, CA. The packet was priced well and it helped us hone in on the b/d’s. It included games as well as spelling practice. When then switched to a journal and I would have him write simple sentences. Some I provided and others he would have to write on his own. We’ve been given a consult with an Occupational Therapist because he still has some issues with handwriting but on the whole, I believe he is progressing well.

He made a Pokemon journal

and him and his sister made a book about the adventures of Cat Girl and Gecko Boy! They dictated to me the story, I wrote it down and Yesenia drew the pictures.


Spelling


For spelling, we started with AAS level 2 since he finished it last year. I was finding, however, that he had not retained the concepts. I also found he would consistently switch letters B/D even switching the order of the letters. Instead of spelling the word “fell” he would write “flel”. So we stopped AAS 2 and completed the B/D reversal packet from Bay Tree Blog. After completion of that, we went back to AAS1. He is doing better and surprises me with what he can spell when he tries. I’ve also learned that having him spell it out loud or with the tiles first before writing, and it helps him greatly. Every spelling day, on top of his paper he must write two words (after his name and date). He must write “bed” and “pig”, it is a reference for him in case he gets confused as to which b/d p/g to write. That seems to help.

Here is a video of his writing work for the year:

We then switch back to AAS 1 repeating the lessons. We will continue with it next year.

AAR spelling with tiles



Reading


All About Reading Program Level 2 uses flashcards, phonics, books, games, and worksheets to help teach reading concepts.  He reads every day with these materials.

To make it fun we incorporate games like this one below. We made a speedway drag race complete with an obstacle course. He had to correctly read each word in order to advance to the next, and of course how quickly he read it determined how fast he got to the end.


He also had a team cheering him on at the end.

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Here is also a link to his reading log from Epic, a digital repository of children’s books. His favorite books hands down are the Wings of Fire series.  He absolutely loves listening to them and schools me often on the story and prophecy. He reads anything that includes Dinosaurs, Minecraft, and especially Pokemon.

This year we read a few read out-louds that he’s loved. First and foremost, Wonder. Both he and his sister wanted to read more and more every day. We sped through that book and the kids learned a great lesson about kindness. The second book that we read out loud that enjoyed was The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe! He loved the story of the kids who just happened to walk into a closet and end up King and Queens. Another book that we read out loud was Mr. Popper’s Penguins! We even attended a book party hosted by our friend, a reading tutor. It was a lot of fun and we had a great time.


History


This is still Fellini’s favorite subject!

We listen to The Story of The World Vol 2 audiobook as our primary lesson material.

For each lesson, we did either a small activity, color sheet or short Q&A. Watched extra videos or read books recommended by the student guide. We even MADE a video. Check out how little man shines as Julius Caesar in a recreation of Caesar invading Gaul.

He made his own Signum and we even created a Caesar costume for him for Halloween.




Geography


Geography this year started out with the basics. The continents, the oceans, the cardinal directions. Then we switched to a week by week study of the Central and South American countries. We kept it very simple. Watch a video (Geography Now! videos on Youtube), draw the countries, and have a short discussion. The kids loved the Geography Now! videos and would often ask for them outside of school.


Spanish


We used Homeschool Spanish Academy and Rosetta Stone.


Science


Science-this year we did one subject for the entire year. The human body. It was project-based with videos and reading. The main text I used was the Human Body by Encyclopedia Britannica. The kids fell in love with the Operation Ouch series on Youtube and we got a lot of great information off of there. They remember the show more than any of my teaching or reading haha. Below is one of our first projects. A working model of the digestive system. Eww gross! We’ve done so many projects, I’ve created a separate post for our science curriculum.

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Operation Ouch is our go-to! We love this show.

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We also do loads of science in the great outdoors! Every month we visited Ranger Laurie at Oletta State Park where she guided us on awesome educational activities throughout the park. Shifted through owl pellets, made fishing rods like the Tequestas did and learned about invasive plants of South Florida.

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And my Uncle who is a retired Milwaukee Police Officer showed Fellini how to take fingerprints!

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Last but not least we brought the microscope to the beach to collect and analyze beach specimens including a Portuguese Man O’War. Which apparently is mix of different species! Which Fellini schooled me on. I’d say he’s learning lots.

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Music


This year we used Hoffman Academy for piano lessons. We also listened to Stories of Great Composers for Children by Thomas Tapper podcast.

I recorded him playing the piano before he had a chance to stop me!



Physical Education


PE is pretty simple. We had Freerunning on Wednesdays, a park day every Thursday and every Friday we had Nature Scouts. He took Kickboxing classes for about a month then the pandemic hit and we ceased all activities. Our PE has been limited to walks, beach days, or bike riding.

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Art


This year was a cool year for Fellini. He learned how to fly his dad’s drone and take video.

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He was interviewed for 10 year documentary following climate change and how it affects children. Part of the documentary was to plant an Everglades seedling in the backyard.

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He spent some time on set with his father learning how video production works

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We also had the fortune of having Lauren Baker teach us the art of ceramics. The kids made some really unique creations and this was Fellini’s favorite art class. He wanted to do more than just once a month.

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During the Coronavirus Pandemic lockdown, we also made thank you notes for all the healthcare workers out there doing the hard stuff while we sat inside binging Netflix

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All in all it was a great year.

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]]> Yesenia Fourth Grade https://leogonacademy.com/yesenia-fourth-grade/ Fri, 10 Jul 2020 17:11:13 +0000 http://leogonacademy.com/?p=1827 The post Yesenia Fourth Grade appeared first on Leogon Academy of Arts & Science.

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Yesenia 4th Grade Evidence Blog

“Success is the sum of small efforts-repeated day in and day out.

-Robert Collier

Subjects

Here is a list of subjects we taught this school year. Click on the button to take you to the subject and the grey arrow to bring you back.

Mathematics Language Arts Reading Spelling History Geography
Spanish Science Music Physical Education Art

Mathematics


We continued this year with Singapore Math. She finished 3B and decided to switch programs to Right Start Mathematics. I really like the Singapore style of teaching but there was too much work that left little time for other subjects, it seemed to dominate our schooldays. Plus I felt the kids would benefit from more game-based learning.  I admittedly miss Singapore Dimensions, but the kids grumble less so that really seals the deal. The hardest part of homeschooling is dealing with unmotivated learners. Yesenia really didn’t like the games at first but she’s come around. We used Level D and skipped around hitting on some of the lessons that were unique to Right Start. Singapore used less geometry so we had to familiarize ourselves with the terms and concepts of geometry.

Here are some of the videos our her schoolwork for evidence:

For our math facts, we use Reflex Math, it’s fun and has different games as rewards for completing basic facts. It’s what I thought was a fun way to do drills. Yesenia has mastered the majority of her multiplication tables and is at 91.8% mastery for multiplication. Those pesky 7’s and 8’s are always hardest to master, but I feel she will with time!

You can see the fluency she started at in October of 2019

And now where she ended up at the end of the year…

During the summer in order to retain some of our skills and get better at word problems we use Bedtime Math. It’s fun and challenging and a great way to work on our word problem skills.





Language Arts


This year we are using mad libs, poem recitation, and narration for our grammar work.

Here she is reciting two poems, Afternoon on the Hill by Edna St. Vincent Millay she did at the beginning of the year and a speech by Theodore Roosevelt commonly referred to as “Man in The Arena” she did at the end of the year.

1st poem recitation of the school year “Afternoon on The Hill” by Enda St. Vincent Millay

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This is a speech commonly referred to as "Man in the Arena" it's by the great President Theodore Roosevelt. The kids…

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For writing, she started the year creating stories with her brother. She then created comics on her own with wonderful illustrations. I needed her to have some more formal writing training so I also assigned book reports. She wrote one at the beginning of the year on Minecraft and one about The Prisoner of Azkaban (click on the links to see the essays). They are two very different reports and it really shows how much she has improved. We included brainstorming and multiple revisions in order to get the polished product at the end of the second piece so that definitely helped.

She’s done multiple comics throughout the year for creative writing. She really has an eye for visual storytelling.


Spelling


We’ve continued with the All About Spelling routine. She finished All About Spelling 1 & 2 and is working on 3. Her spelling has also improved as a side effect of her time on Scratch, a coding platform for 18 and under. She is motivated to make comments and be understood so she has made more of an effort to spell correctly.




Reading


Yesenia is a reader and my only goal with her is to expose her to new books that she wouldn’t normally read. As part of the school day, she has a structured reading time that I assign books. She’s read Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, A Little Princess,  The Prisoner of Azkaban and Warriors Cats #1& #2. She also did reading comprehension and vocabulary exercises for Mrs. Frisby, A Little Princess and The Prisoner of Azkaban. 

Here is the video of those

This year we started her on Vocabulary From Classical Roots to help her vocab comprehension. Here is the video of her work with that.

Our Homeschool friend is a reading tutor and as a part of her services, she offers a monthly book club. One of the books from the book club was Wonder! We read wonder out loud and the kids loved it. I would say it is one of their favorite books of the year. We celebrated the end of the book with a movie day and watched Auggie on the big screen.

Linked is a reading log from Epic of the many books she’s read in her spare time. Her favorites are Archie, The Smurfs, Phoebe and Her Unicorn, Scaredy Squirrel, and anything about cats.


History


We listened to The Story of The World Vol 2 audiobook as our primary lesson material.

For each lesson, we did either a small activity, color sheet or short Q&A.

Here is a picture of her with the signum she created for our chapter on Roman History!




Geography


Geography this year started out with the basics. The continents, the oceans, the cardinal directions. Then we switched to a week by week study of the Central and South American countries. We kept it very simple. Watch a video (Geography Now! videos on Youtube), draw the countries, and have a short discussion. The kids loved the Geography Now! videos and would often ask for them outside of school.



Spanish


We used Homeschool Spanish Academy and Rosetta Stone. Yesenia did a great job in both and always strove to 100% in each lesson before moving to the next. She’s too much like me, perfectionist through and through.


Science


Science-this year we did one subject for the entire year. The human body. It was project-based with videos and reading. The main text I used was the Human Body by Encyclopedia Britannica. The kids fell in love with the Operation Ouch series on Youtube and we got a lot of great information off of there. They remember the show more than any of my teaching or reading haha. Below is one of our first projects. A working model of the digestive system. Eww gross! We’ve done so many projects, I’ve created a separate post for our science curriculum.

For science class today we learned about the digestive system and made our very own version of it. I had planned this…

Posted by Leogon Academy on Wednesday, October 2, 2019

Operation Ouch is our go-to! We love this show.

We also do loads of science in the great outdoors! Every month we visited Ranger Laurie at Oletta State Park were she guided us on awesome educational activities throughout the park. Shifted through owl pellets, made fishing rods like the Tequestas did and learned about invasive plants of South Florida.

Yesenia also participated in the Nature Scouts science fair, doing an experiment about CO2 on Mars

Yesenia explaining her science experiment to the other scouts at Nature Scouts science fair. It was a difficult thing to get completed only because it took more time out of our school days than I had ideally wanted but I’m glad we did it. She seemed to really enjoy explaining it to the other kids.

Posted by Leogon Academy on Saturday, October 26, 2019



Music


This year we used Hoffman Academy for piano lessons. We also listened to Stories of Great Composers for Children by Thomas Tapper podcast. She continues to do a great job both with her lessons and singing along with the tracks!



Physical Education


PE is pretty simple. We have a park day every Thursday and once a month beach day with Nature Scouts. We did Parkour once a week. She took Hip Hop classes for about a month then the pandemic hit and we ceased all activities. Our PE has been regaled to walks or roller skating.

Sometimes they did Cosmic Kids Yoga on Youtube and Go Noodle to get some exercise when it’s raining too much outside.


Art


For Yesenia, this is the year of digital art! She has really learned to create and code in Scratch as well as create gifs and digital drawings on her iPad. I’m so very proud of her work and here are some of her creations for this year.

Animation by Yesenia-9 years old using Procreate and Adobe Photoshop

Posted by Leogon Academy on Monday, April 6, 2020

She ventured into the world of coding. Here she is at the start of the year making a short project in scratch.

Coding success! Yesenia is joining Girls Who Code. Such a great resource available at our local library.

Posted by Leogon Academy on Saturday, September 14, 2019

And now at the end of the year, here is what her projects look like!

Yesenia Scratch

and created some stop motion videos

Day at the Beach. Yesenia’s first stop motion video. Got some kinks to work out but I love the effort. Story is: a girl…

Posted by Leogon Academy on Friday, January 3, 2020

She auditioned for a spot on Nicklaus Children’s Hospital’s latest campaign. Not only did she get a callback but she also booked it! Here is a snippet of her onset.

Someone is working on a Saturday…and it’s not just me. Yesenia at her photo & video shoot today 🙂

Posted by Leogon Academy on Saturday, February 8, 2020

Continuing on the acting vibes. She performed in The Royal Chessman Show as a pawn. She also started learning the basics of stage combat with swords.

Yesenia decided to come to Camelot Days the last day. It was really nice having her there. We introduced her as Daniela…

Posted by Leogon Academy on Monday, November 18, 2019

Royal Chessmen helping Yesenia learn stage combat with a single sword. Super cool!

Posted by Leogon Academy on Wednesday, March 11, 2020

We also had the fortune of having Lauren Baker teach us the art of ceramics. The kids made some really unique creations.

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