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Yes, our students learn cursive
Learning cursive writing is important – for taking notes, for signing documents, for reading such historic documents as the Declaration of Independence. Dr. Lou Ellen Kay, our Head of School, has been teaching cursive to all our students. Here are a couple of...
Young students learning flower structure and function
Our third-graders have been learning science all along. Here are two drawings of flowers, labeled by name and function.
Distance education in Chinese
Our incredibly effective Chinese program continues in distance-education mode. Teacher Yulin Zhang meets with students on Zoom. She also gives them assignments in ClassDojo, including quizzes to take on Quizlet. Students are in 5 groups by level of advancement in...
Distance education – computer programming
Zoom meetings in computer programming have advantages: all the students get carried along in the lesson very well, seeing every step in programming. All the students and teacher Vince Gutschick share a screen. One of us is set as host. He or she runs the program...
Science grades 5-8: home experiments and Zoom
Our six students in the science 5-8 class meet three times a week on Zoom for far-ranging discussions... and to show their results of their home experiments growing sunflowers hydroponically. Some of the discussions start from sections in the book we've used at time,...
Distance education, part 2!
Our early kindergarten / kindergarten class celebrated Earth Day. Teacher Arielle Lane provided materials and the students took it from there. Gabby planted beans, Evan made a bird feeder from a recycled bottle, Errol made a worm house, Obi was joined by his older...
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,...