News
Distance education, part 1!
The Las Cruces Academy is up and running very well in distance education. Our classes run several ways – some at scheduled times in Zoom or another app, others “asynchronously” with online recordings and assignments, yet others in home sessions as readings or as...
Theater club
Saturday, 14 March 2020. Our theater club prepared for the play they wrote last year - 31 pages of script, lots of set design, lots of practice, and, now, more set-building. Parents helped too - Ugonna, Aaron, Charlotte, and Todd. Thanks to all! The play will be...
For the moment, the Academy is NOT closing
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has mandated the closing of all public K-12 schools in New Mexico, to begin at the end of school, Friday, March 13th. The closure will last at least three weeks, and it may be much longer. As a private school we are not under the...
Learning to manage money
6 March 2020: Our students in grades 3-8 got valuable lessons in money management from Bryan Stein of Washington Federal bank. He engaged the students about credit cards and debit cards, offering four illustrative scenarios of fictional people using credit cards,...
Mattress sell-a-thon
6-16 March 2020: Ashley Homestore is running a mattress sale to benefit the Academy! We'll get 40% of the sale price on all mattresses sold when buyers present the event flier... and LCA students earn rewards! The mattress prices are just what you'd pay without the...
Young engineers
28 February 2020: More in our after-school engineering club. Our young students in kindergarten through 6th grade recently constructed a "Core Sampler," which basically uses potential energy with rubber bands and straws to puncture holes in fruit and extract a...
Writing Chinese stories
27 February 2020: Our young students in grades 1-4 write Chinese characters and illustrate their stories with pictures. We have 5 levels of Chinese classes covering grades K-8; here is work of students in just their second year of Chinese. Our teacher, Yulin Zhang,...
Have you eaten a dinosaur lately?
24 February 2020: Our students in grades 1&2 get a science lesson from Dr. Lou Ellen Kay, our Head of School. Here she takes the stance of a bird to demonstrate how birds and lizards use their legs differently… all in the course of explaining the evolution of...
Growing bacteria in science class
21-27 February 2020: Our students in grades 5-8 grow common Escherechia coli bacteria, seeing how long it takes them to divide and double. They also saw that growth at a cool room temperature of 15°C instead of their optimal 37°C (our body temperature) slowed them by...
Young students make robots
21 February 2020: Our students in grades 2-6 build robots in our after-school engineering club. Advisors Jessica Houston, LCA parent, and Elizabeth Brasher, teacher, give students clues about possibilities and help them understand some manuals. It’s intense, and fun....