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Our April open house
10 April 2018, Tuesday. We have another great open house event coming up. Come see our school, engage with our outreach in science and world culture, view classes (8:30-10:00 AM), talk with teachers (5:30-6:30 PM). We welcome families considering enrolling their...
A new archery competition
30 March 2018: Our students in grades 3-8 requested three levels of competition; they got it, and they had fun challenging themselves. Our winners were Arabella, an 8th-grader, with Kira very close; Samantha, a 4th-grader; and Anish, a 3rd-grader. The younger...
Zuhl Collection field trip
28 March 2018: Our students in grades 1-6 enjoyed the stunning Zuhl Collection of minerals and fossils on the NMSU campus. They had questions and thoughtful comments about all the displays. We thank Tiffany Santos, the curator, for showing us around with excellent...
Shared reading
15 March 2018. Ides of March? No worries. Our older students (here, Samantha, 5th grade) read with the younger students (here, Marissa and Cailin, 1st grade - both readers themselves), in a comfortable setting in our grades 1 & 2 room.
Founder’s birthday celebration
March 2018. Our founder and Head of School, Dr. Lou Ellen Kay, had her birthday recently. There was a lunch period Happy Birthday song in both English and American Sign Language (students, all with normal hearing, learn it in a club). At afternoon snack, students...
Archery in grades 3-8
Wednesday, 7 March 2018. This is an 8x slo-mo video of an archery class at our school in Mesilla, NM. Teacher and Head of School Dr. Lou Ellen Kay is in the foreground. Our students worked hard with tight instruction that emphasizes safety; they've become quite...
Our March open house
13 March 2018, Tuesday. We have another great open house event coming up. Come see our school, engage with our outreach in science and world culture, view classes (8:30-10:00 AM), talk with teachers (5:30-6:30 PM). We welcome families considering enrolling their...
Math teaching at the LCA
Monday, 19 February 2018: Math teacher Ellen Armitage works through a challenge in geometry with 8th-grader Arabella in our middle-school math class. Board Chair Vince says, "I didn't get geometry until sophomore year in high school - this is great for our...
Poison-arrow frogs, safely
Monday, 19 February 2018: Poison-arrow frogs: LCA parent Doug Petranoff brought his collection of these frogs to show to the early kindergarten / kindergarten students. They were really engaged. Don’t worry: the frogs only become poisonous when they eat certain...
Live science teaching
Friday, 16 February 2018: Our first- and second-graders benefit from the deep learning and the long teaching experience of Dr. Lou Ellen Kay, our founder and current Head of School. This level keeps the students intrigued and eager to learn.










