Welcome!

Hello! My name is Melissa Soto and I 'm one of the fifth grade teachers at eCademy. I have been teaching now for over 24 years; both adults and children (believe it or not, but I have taught English to children in China virtually for several years; really, really early in the morning because of the time difference!) and I have been teaching 4 years at eCademy (Fifth grade, of course - the BEST grade!!).  I have a large family with 5 children, 1 husband and 5 fur babies (12 of us around the table!). My two youngest children are in their first year at UNM and an 11th grader at Cibola High School. 4 are attending UNM (Me too, a  long time ago, GO LOBOS!) or already graduated. I am completely CRAZY for dogs and volunteer at our local rescue and animal shelter. Lovely Luna, one of my dogs, is a smallish-sized rescue from that animal shelter. She is a Soto now and so sweet! They will love to meet you all and occasionally (Yuki especially) make guest appearances at our Google Meets! I love dogs, reading, baking, photography and now gardening. In fact, my garden was so lush last summer that I had to learn how to can in order to save some of the chiles and tomatoes.  I couldn't just throw them away? Let's see how I do next summer? I'm excited to be teaching at eCademy for the 23-24 school year and  I'm looking forward to working with you all.   Let's Go, Dragons!!!