Lego League

by Leah | Dec 25, 2017 | News and Events

9 December 2017. Our younger students had a productive time at the Junior First Lego League competition in Las Cruces. They also earned two awards. The theme was water, about which they learned quite a bit and about which they shared a lot.

15 songs, 6 piano recitals, a play, and dinner

by Leah | Dec 14, 2017 | News and Events

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9 December 2017.  Our 17th  end-of-term performance by our students was a great success.  All the performances in the title came off very well.  In addition to the still pictures in the gallery that’s linked below are movies.  We’ve put two movies on...

Rehearsing

by Leah | Dec 7, 2017 | News and Events

6 December 2017.  Our students are rehearsing all their songs and other performances for the end-of-term celebration this coming Saturday, 9 December.  Yulin Zhang, who teaches Mandarin Chinese to all ages at our school, looks on with pleasure, as do all the seated...

Computer programming

by Leah | Dec 7, 2017 | News and Events

6 December 2017.  Mark Leisher volunteers his time and expertise to teach computer programming to students.  He has two groups of students, grades 3-5 and grades 6-8.  He teaches each group for two consecutive class periods each week.  The younger students are...

Banking day

by Leah | Dec 3, 2017 | News and Events

Friday, 1 December 2017.  Bryan Stein and colleagues from Washington  Federal bank donate their time and expertise about 6 times a year to educate our students about finances, especially savings accounts.  They help students start accounts, then engage the students in...

Radio show on science

by Leah | Dec 1, 2017 | News and Events

A bit more outreach by the Las Cruces Academy…Vince Gutschick hosts a show, Science: let’s take a look, on KTAL LP FM, Tuesdays at noon. It’s at 101.5 on the FM dial or streaming on http://www.lccommunityradio.org/stream.html. The inaugural show is...