Momentum demo to young students

by Leah | Nov 1, 2017 | News and Events

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30 October 2017.  The middle-schoolers treated the 1st- and 2nd-graders to a demonstration of how motion (momentum, to be more precise) is exchanged among colliding steel balls.  After a goodly amount of planning and testing, they brought Newton’s cradle to the...

Dia de Los Muertos 2017

by Leah | Oct 27, 2017 | News and Events

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27 October 2017.  Our students, our teachers, and eleven parents and other relatives walked from the school this afternoon to the Mesilla Plaza.  They saw the touching, beautiful displays as celebrations of lives, not as worries about death.

Climate knowledge

by Leah | Oct 27, 2017 | News and Events

28 October 2017. Board Chair Vince Gutschick is a co-organizer and presenter at the statewide climate conference this Saturday.  He’ll share his knowledge of a range of sciences, as outreach to the public that is part of the LCA mission statement.  His...

Yearbook Club in its 3rd month

by Leah | Oct 26, 2017 | News and Events

25 October 2017.  Each Wednesday the Yearbook Club meets to design this year’s Yearbook, which will come out in the spring.  The students meet with teacher Ellen Armitage to do the layout, gather images and stories, and prepare for the submission to our...

Middle-school science: momentum

by Leah | Oct 25, 2017 | News and Events

24 October 2017.  Here are a couple of nice, simple demos of how momentum is exchanged… and conserved, in collisions of bodies.  

Chinese culture: martial arts

by Leah | Oct 8, 2017 | News and Events

29 Sept. 2017. Our students not only speak, read, and write Mandarin Chinese; they learn the culture. Teacher Yulin Zhang invited martial arts expert Xue Jun from NMSU’s Confucius Institute to teach students some martial arts. Here the beginning class has a...