The Book Fair is a Hit

by Leah | Apr 25, 2017 | News and Events

25 April 2017.  Books are a big draw at our school – we use other media and the Internet, but our 7,000 books are a big attraction for our students.  Twice a year, Dr. Lou Ellen Kay, our Head of School, brings in a Scholastic Book Fair.  It’s a student...

New sport: table tennis

by Leah | Apr 25, 2017 | News and Events

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Fast response to suggestions: We now have a ping-pong table, and the students have taken to it immediately.  We’d bandied the idea about months earlier, but a serious suggestion was made on the 21st at a Parent Committee meeting…and Charlotte and Duke Gard...

Earth Day 2017

by Leah | Apr 25, 2017 | News and Events

Saturday, 22 April 2017.  We were there, on the Downtown Plaza.  Our Board Chair, Vince Gutschick, and our Head of School, Lou Ellen Kay, were joined by LCA parent Lara Milane.  The LCA fitted in well with the theme of Earth Day, attested to by the banner given us as...

Soil Microbiology Experiment

by Leah | Apr 25, 2017 | News and Events

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Friday, 21 April 2017.  Professor Geof Smith from NMSU’s Biology Department took time to give our middle-schoolers experience in sampling bacteria from 6 soils.  Students Kira and Frankie took soil samples from the bare land and from the cultivated field by the...

International Chinese Exam

by Leah | Apr 25, 2017 | News and Events

HSK exam in Mandarin Chinese – on Friday, 21 April 2017, student Arabella took the Level 2 exam, and on Saturday, 22 April, seven other students took the Level 1 exam.  From the HSK website: “HSK (Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi) or the Chinese Proficiency Test is an...

Archery Competition

by Leah | Apr 25, 2017 | News and Events

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Thursday, 20 April 2017.  New Mexico Game and Fish generously loaned us their archery trailer with a panoply of bows, arrows, targets, and safety backdrops.  The students in grades 3-5 and in middle school had been trained carefully in earlier sessions; they competed...