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Thursday, November 8th: The Las Cruces Academy is holding an open house, 11 AM to 1 PM, at the school, 1755 Avenida de Mercado in Mesilla. You can meet with our Head of School, Dr. Lou Ellen Kay, observe students in classes and at play, and talk with our great...

25 October 2018: Fast progress in high-quality math.  Teacher Kelly Lin toted up a new book order for all our math classes.  Our students are progressing so fast through the Singapore Math books that we’ve had to order more books even in the middle of this first...

31 October 2018, when else!  Students Janaki and Erika planned a gala for all the students, aided by teachers and a number of parents.  They created games galore, with rewards. Many people took photos and videos.  Seventy-seven of Vince and Lou Ellen's still images...

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2 November 2018: The  plaza in the Town of Mesilla came alive, in two senses, with remembrances of the dead, in the traditional Day of the Dead.  Our students visited and took away a different view of death.  We value diverse cultures in our school, with its very...

29 October 2018: We wrote up all the details of the experiment of the previous two weeks, exploring the chemical reaction of beautiful, rose-red phenolphthalein dye (not misspelled!  It's fen-ohl-thay-leen), for which we ranged beyond chemistry to electronics, light...

15-26 October 2018: Here, our students in grades 4-7 science measure the rate of a chemical reaction, the decolorization of beautiful rose-red phenolphthalein.  We did a lot of background study of light, electronics, chemistry, math, and construction techniques.  At...

16 October 2018: We've gotta share this - the first- and second-graders made self portraits in Kelly Lin's class!