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Changing color and back again
In grades 5-8 science today, we delved into heat, temperature, and chemical reactions accelerated by heat or by catalysts such as enzymes. We ran one beautiful demonstration of a chemical reaction driven one way by rising temperature and back by decreasing...
Robotics demo
LCA graduate Arabella and her colleagues at the Arrowhead Early College High came to the school to demonstrate robotics to students of all ages. Students learned some of the principles, designed platforms, and got to operate some robots. [unitegallery...
Engineering club, fall 2019
LCA parent Prof. Jessica Houston and LCA teacher Elizabeth Brasher led the students to make launchers and planes in two after-school sessions this fall. The students look intent, pleased, both.
Learning fast and loving it
Our youngest students get topics years in advance of regular schools and they love it Reading, 1st & 2nd grades: Students did a good job of recording their reading from the week in their reading logs and bringing them on Thursday. This week students learned how to...
Open house, Tuesday, October 8th
Open house: We invite the public to visit the school on Thursday, May 9th, from 11 AM to 1 PM. You can meet with our Head of School, Dr. Lou Ellen Kay, observe students in classes and at play, and talk with our great teachers. We're proud of what we can offer for the...
Moon Festival on the Plaza
Saturday, 28 September 2019. Our students attracted the crowd at the band shell on the Downtown Plaza, as they sang five songs in Chinese. They youngest group, kindergarten through 2nd grade, came first, with the longer-experienced 3rd- through 8th-graders...
K-8 students join the worldwide Climate Strike
Saturday, 20 September 2019: A week's learning, writing, and drawing culminated in 16 students in grades K through 8 being out on the sidewalk in front of the Mesilla Town Hall holding posters they had made. They were inspired by Greta Thunberg, the courageous...
Open house, September
On Tuesday, September 10th: 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,...
The Kids Are Not Alright: the LCA Difference
A recent opinion piece published in the New York Times lamented the lack of “free play and childhood independence” critical for unstructured growth and overall happiness of students in most schools. "For youngsters these days, an hour of free play is like a drop of...
Labor Day 2019
It’s Labor Day. We salute our hardworking teachers – Elizabeth Brasher (English, writing, music, social studies, Assistant Head of School, theater and engineering clubs); Arielle Lane (early kinder and kindergarten, 1&2 reading, fitness, garden club, overseeing...