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Big celebration of Chinese New Year
Chinese New Year, Saturday, 9 February 2019. Our students were invited to perform at the heart of this celebration at New Mexico State University's Corbett Center. It was a big event, with perhaps 500 attendees in addition to performers. Our beloved Mandarin Chinese...
Student-initiated letter
25 January - 2 March 2019. A recent session of grades 4-8 science on light and energy led naturally to a discussion of climate change. The ramifications of climate change for society led 6th-grader Erika to propose that the students as a group write a letter to our...
Fun in school – Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day, 2019: Our school is fun as well as strongly academic. Every day students play at recess, in PE, after school in our extended hours (no charge)...and on special days when we have celebrations. Here are images from the Valentine’s Day party organized by...
A biochemist visits
On Thursday, 14 February 2019 (yes, Valentine’s Day), Dr. Kevin Houston, Kaleb’s dad and a Prof. at NMSU, visited. He engaged the class to learn about DNA being transcribed to messenger RNA and that being translated into the sequence of amino acids, or proteins. He...
Lunch, Chinese style
5 February 2019: Today we celebrated Chinese New Year with a taste-treat of a lunch; students used chopsticks, some of them for the first time, and got to keep decorated chopsticks that Head of School Dr. Lou Ellen Kay brought back from Japan. We integrate subjects at...
A great start for the Spring 2019 semester
5 February 2019: The spring semester is off with a flying start. We have 3 new students this semester, in grades 1-2, 4, and 8. One student moved out of state, so we’re at 43 students now. Our diversity continues to grow, and we celebrate that. We’ve also had another...
Friday, 22 February 2019: Sharing world culture: Three LCA families were recently in Japan, so they pooled pictures, souvenirs, other memorabilia, and stories at a potluck dinner from 5:00-7:30 PM. Many LCA families came with good food to share. Jessica and Kevin...
End-of-term performance
Saturday, 8 Dec. 2018: Our students at the Las Cruces Academy in Mesilla, NM learn music, English, Spanish, Chinese, and theater skills for our end-of-term performances. The students got a standing ovation at the end. Head of School Lou Ellen Kay thanked everyone,...
Book fair 2018
17 November 2018: The Barnes & Noble bookstore in the Mesilla Valley Mall hosted us for a book fair. As part of our activities there, Board chair and teacher Vince Gutschick did a 40-minute science demo. He made the video into four segments, adding some later...
Generous donors
27 November 2018: Nine Academy families and an anonymous donor warmed our hearts with generous donations totaling almost $4K. Our Head of School, Dr. Lou Ellen Kay, put up a note in the lobby and, voila, by 5:30 PM we were gratified. Thanks!