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The start of our running club
18 December 2019: The inaugural run of the LCA running club. Teacher and runner Kelly Lin got inspired to start a running club. The response was strong – about 30 students, several parents, and a second teacher joined in. They ran around our long building,...
Walking the Solar System
20 December 2019: pacing off the distances to the planets. Students joined teacher and Head of School Dr. Lou Ellen Kay to walk down Avenida de Mesilla, placing scale models of the Sun and the planets at appropriately scaled distances. Starting from the Sun,...
End-of-term student performance
14 December 2019. Our students’ end-of-term performance, for our 21st semester! Students, teachers, families, and friends gathered at 5 PM. The students were bursting with energy, and ready to sing after weeks of rehearsals in music and Chinese classes. Families...
6 December 2019: A well-deserved award to Dr. Lou Ellen Kay, our founder and Head of School at the Las Cruces Academy. We students, parents, teachers, Board, volunteers, and friends of the school – are extremely proud of her. The Las Cruces Bulletin just announced...
Visit by Fish & Game, and an open house
Wednesday, December 4th, 2019: The students loved this presentation and learned a lot about snakes and what they do that makes our environment a better, safer place. (They eat many of the rodents that can carry diseases, such as Lyme Disease.) Come see what else we...
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Making molecules
13 November 2019. Students in grades 5-8 science latched onto three different molecular model kits to make structures of common and less-known molecules, by following the rules for bonding of atoms (valence). On their own, they hit on proper structures and they had...
Field trip – Three Rivers Petroglyphs
What a beautiful, sunny, mild, and very educational day we had at Three Rivers Petroglyphs site in the Tularosa Basin north of Alamogordo. From about 400 AD to 1400 AD, Native Americans lived here. Among other pieces of their life story, they left over 21,000...
Fall Festivities – see what we’ve been up to!
23 October | Science demo Students learned how to use a partial vacuum to suck a hard-boiled egg through an opening a bit narrower than its diameter. We put a bit of water into a vase, heated the vase + water in a microwave oven, and put the egg on top of the vase...
Open house, November 12th
On Tuesday, November 12th | We're holding an open house! When | 8-10 AM and 5:30-6:30 PM Where | 1755 Avenida de Mercado in Mesilla What to expect | You can meet with our Head of School, Dr. Lou Ellen Kay, in the morning observe students in classes and at play, and...