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Leonora Shell
Mar 111 min read
Doing Real Science in the Classroom
The lunar eclipse this Friday has me thinking about the best places to get science news, activities and events for our students.
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Leonora Shell
Mar 73 min read
Women's History Month: Our Stories
Celebrating Women's History Month this year at Kalexedy I decided to make it my mission to connect my students' personal family histories...
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Leonora Shell
Feb 213 min read
Celebrating all the Holidays
If there's a holiday (Alien Abduction Day, anyone?), we're looking forward to celebrating it. We have fun as a learning community
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Leonora Shell
Feb 42 min read
Shark Tooth Forensics at Kalexedy
"I found a tooth!" isn't something you'd expect a sixth grader exclaim in your classroom and be excited about, but this week...
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Leonora Shell
Jan 152 min read
Camp Automaton at Kalexedy
From July 7-11th, 2025 our center will be transformed into an engineering challenge lab using all things cardboard, paper, wires, glue...
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Leonora Shell
Jan 31 min read
Why Student-Led Enrichments are a Hallmark of Kalexedy Learning Center
Our interns are here on Fridays, and those correspond with the days that our enrichments are led by students – which gives them so many
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Leonora Shell
Dec 27, 20242 min read
Starting our New Year off SMART
It’s easy to set resolutions and even easier to quickly abandon them, but one of the ways we are approaching the New Year at Kalexedy
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Leonora Shell
Dec 20, 20243 min read
How do field trips work?
While we don’t have a school bus or need to plan field trips a year in advance, we can nimbly choose our field trips based on interest
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Leonora Shell
Dec 17, 20246 min read
When was the last time your child read an entire book?
As the parent and teacher of voracious readers, I am so saddened by the disservice that students (many of whom are now adults and parents
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Leonora Shell
Dec 3, 20247 min read
A Day in the Life: Lead Teacher of a Microschool
6:00am Wake-Up I wake up and get ready for my day – waking up my two daughters who will join me today at Kalexedy. They are with me three...
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Leonora Shell
Nov 15, 20245 min read
Meet The Teacher: Lea Shell
I sat down to write this post so that you’ll know more about me, but being a teacher I am naturally more inclined to celebrate the
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Leonora Shell
Nov 12, 20242 min read
Why I Quit Homeschooling (at Home).
Most modern homeschoolers know that the “home” part of that title is a misnomer. U.S. parents are facing a simultaneous increase in remote
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Leonora Shell
Nov 1, 20242 min read
How To Host a Writers' Workshop
I planned a four week series, one lesson a week of a bonafide “Writers’ Workshop” series where we all meet in our collaborative space
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Leonora Shell
Oct 26, 20241 min read
What are we reading? (Includes Free Download)
We have a multi-age classroom at our learning center and as a result have a large variety of books that our students are interested in readi
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Leonora Shell
Oct 22, 20241 min read
The Art and Science of Clouds
This is a great elementary or middle grade STEAM activity for homeschoolers or a classroom -- we did it this month with our students...
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Leonora Shell
Oct 11, 20243 min read
Q&A with our Academic Mentor, Leonora Shell
What is most attractive about working here? The most attractive thing about working at Kalexedy Learning Center is that all of my favorite
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Leonora Shell
Oct 4, 20243 min read
What is an “enrichment activity” when you have a multi-age classroom?
My teacher friends all technically have single-age classrooms but can tell you that within each classroom the social and academic abilities
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Leonora Shell
Sep 27, 20243 min read
What is a Personalized Learning Plan?
When our family began our homeschooling journey in 2021 we had a first grader who had never attended in-person school, instead she ...
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Leonora Shell
Sep 19, 20244 min read
My Best First Day of School
I just had the best first day of school of my career. My first first day of school as a teacher was as a public high school math...
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