Learning to shop and sell

by Leah | May 10, 2019 | News and Events

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Wednesday, 8 May 2019: Teacher Kelly Lin gave our first- and second-graders the opportunity to learn about shopping hands-on.  Individually or in small groups the students created a product, the product description, a commercial, and a store.  The students, joined by...

Engineering club rides again

by Leah | May 10, 2019 | News and Events

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All year: Students in grades 1-8 in the after-school engineering club meets each week with teacher Elizabeth Brasher, LCA parent Jessica Houston, and other parents on occasion.  Elizabeth and Jessica pose challenging questions for the students to solve.   A recent one...

Students among the flowers

by Leah | May 10, 2019 | News and Events

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Monday, 6 May 2019: The Calhoun Flower Farm welcomed our early kindergarteners, kindergarteners, and first- and second-graders.  They loved viewing the flowers, picking a few, planting seeds, and learning about the life cycle of plants.  Thanks to Calhoun Farms, to...

More congratulations

by Leah | May 10, 2019 | News and Events

May 2019: Arielle Lane, our teacher of early childhood grades since 2015, recently completed all her work for her Master of Science degree in education with a reading specialty from NMSU.  She expects her degree in good time.  We support our teachers in professional...

Congratulations

by Leah | May 10, 2019 | News and Events

Sunday, 5 May 2019: We were so pleased to see Yi Li, wife of LCA board member David Gutschick, get her PhD diploma in person at the Ohio State University in a huge commencement ceremony attended by 70,000 people.  She was formally awarded her doctorate in Materials...

The Insect Zoo comes to us

by Leah | May 10, 2019 | News and Events

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Thursday, 9 May 2019: NMSU’s Insect Zoo came to the Academy to show the students a great diversity of both mounted and live insects.  The students paid rapt attention, particularly when they themselves handled a giant millipede, a Madagascar hissing cockroach, and a...