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Elephant toothpaste
Monday, 10 February 2020: we turned the famous elephant toothpaste demonstration into a real science experiment, in our grades 5-8 science class. The demo is just the mixing of hydrogen peroxide solution with yeast so that the catalase enzyme in yeast rapidly breaks...
Lunar New Year 2020
27 January 2020. On our first class day after the Chinese New Year, we celebrated the holiday. Teacher Yulin gathered the food and the dragon costume, older students helped serve the food, all the students enjoyed the meal and the dragon parade, and teachers took...
Engineering – a wind turbine
The Engineering Club. 17 January 2020. LCA parent Jessica Houston challenges willing students to find the efficient way to operate a wind turbine, in this case, a windmill. The turbine’s rotation winds a string on a narrow shaft in order to lift a weight, here, a...
Classes start again!
Classes start again! Wednesday, January 8th begins the spring semester. Eager students again join our great teachers.
Recognition from the community
Special edition of the Las Cruces Bulletin: Outstanding Women of the Mesilla Valley. Our founder and Head of School, Dr. Lou Ellen Kay, is one of 13 awardees! She was nominated by friends, relatives, a teacher, and parents of LCA students. We invite you to read on,...
Open house, January 14th
On Tuesday, January 14th: The Las Cruces Academy is holding an open house, 8-10 AM and 5:30-6:30 PM, at the school, 1755 Avenida de Mercado in Mesilla. You can meet with our Head of School, Dr. Lou Ellen Kay, in the morning observe students in classes and at play, and...
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...