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.