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Coming up right away, Saturday, 11 May 2019: Students present our end-of-term performance.  They’ve been practicing songs, skits, and dances cast in English, Spanish, Chinese, and (we’ll see) maybe other languages!  Parents, grandparents, friends, teachers, and board...

Wednesday, 8 May 2019 and onward for a couple of weeks: Archery is back.  This skill brings discipline, development of motor skills, friendly competition, and fun.  We thank the New Mexico Game and Fish Department and Jeremy Lane for the loan of the equipment.  Head...

Tuesday, 30 April 2019:  Beloved educator and legislator of yore, Dr. J. Paul Taylor, opened his historic house to our students in grades 1 through 8.   At 95 years of age, he’s sharp, humorous, and replete with stories about life.  His daughter, Rosie, and docent...

Wednesday, 8 May 2019: Teacher Kelly Lin gave our first- and second-graders the opportunity to learn about shopping hands-on.  Individually or in small groups the students created a product, the product description, a commercial, and a store.  The students, joined by...

All year: Students in grades 1-8 in the after-school engineering club meets each week with teacher Elizabeth Brasher, LCA parent Jessica Houston, and other parents on occasion.  Elizabeth and Jessica pose challenging questions for the students to solve.   A recent one...

Monday, 6 May 2019: The Calhoun Flower Farm welcomed our early kindergarteners, kindergarteners, and first- and second-graders.  They loved viewing the flowers, picking a few, planting seeds, and learning about the life cycle of plants.  Thanks to Calhoun Farms, to...

May 2019: Arielle Lane, our teacher of early childhood grades since 2015, recently completed all her work for her Master of Science degree in education with a reading specialty from NMSU.  She expects her degree in good time.  We support our teachers in professional...

Sunday, 5 May 2019: We were so pleased to see Yi Li, wife of LCA board member David Gutschick, get her PhD diploma in person at the Ohio State University in a huge commencement ceremony attended by 70,000 people.  She was formally awarded her doctorate in Materials...

Thursday, 9 May 2019: NMSU’s Insect Zoo came to the Academy to show the students a great diversity of both mounted and live insects.  The students paid rapt attention, particularly when they themselves handled a giant millipede, a Madagascar hissing cockroach, and a...

9 May 2019: a recap and a prospectus: Big event on the 11th: our twice-yearly end-of-term performances by our students for families and friends, 5 PM.  Students and teachers worked on this all semester. Big event on Wednesday, the 29th: Food for Thought, our signature...