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Appreciating wildlife: snakes!
Tuesday, 22 May 2018: An appreciation of wildlife: snakes come to the Academy. Jeremy Lane, of New Mexico Game & Fish visited again with nonvenomous snakes. Imparting not fear (as you can see) but an awareness of how snakes live, act, and fit into our world,...
Open house, June 19th
The Las Cruces Academy, at 1755 Avenida de Mercado in Mesilla, invites you to visit the school on Saturday, June 16th. While we don’t have classes to observe during the summer, we welcome you to visit us in the morning, 10 AM to noon. You can meet our Head of School,...
Opening for Deputy Head of School
The Las Cruces Academy seeks a Deputy Head of School, with a path to becoming Head of School. This development starts our transition to long-term leadership. The position requires the abilities to teach and to do business management. The position would initially be...
Food for Thought 2018
Food for Thought 2018 – our signature community event and fundraiser! May 30, 2018, 6-9 PM. Click here to go to the full, updated page - thanks for visiting!
Vignettes: academics, fun
Monday, May 14th: a snapshot of our academics, on two of our whiteboards. The spelling words for the week for our 1st- and 2nd-graders get pretty advanced! The topics in biology for our middle-schoolers, likewise. ...and school life, Wednesday, May 16th: a lunchtime...
Student performances, end of the term
Also Saturday, May 12th, 5-8 PM: We had our classic end-of-term performances by students of all ages, singing in English, Chinese, Spanish, and American Sign Language, acting and dancing in accompaniment. A number of students played piano pieces. At the opening,...
Book fair turnout
Saturday, May 12th: Barnes & Noble in the Mesilla Valley Mall hosted our school for a book fair. We are grateful. Parent Andrea Camunez read to young people at 11:00. Our students came at 12:30 to sing in English, Chinese, and Spanish, with teachers Elizabeth...
Student play: James and the Giant Peach
Preps for a student play! So much is going on at our school in May - this play on the 19th, our book fair on the 12th, our end-of-term performances on the 12th, and Food for Thought on the 30th. Here's a look at students, teacher Elizabeth Brasher, and several parents...
Book fair at Barnes & Noble!
11 & 12 May, Friday & Saturday, at Barnes & Noble in the Mesilla Valley Mall. Books galore, of course, and our LCA families will be there. The main event is 10 AM to 4 PM Saturday: there's story-telling at 11 AM; singing in Chinese, Spanish, and English;...
A student project with ants
22 April 2018. Eighth-grader Kira is collecting worker ants for an ant farm, with which she'll study their behavior under various changes in their environment. This is her student project. The other middle-schoolers have their own unique projects.