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All semester, all year: our young students avidly put in time learning cursive writing with Lou Ellen, our Head of School. We're one of very few schools still teaching this valuable skill! Sorry for a picture that's a bit fuzzy; their letters are sharp!

9 December 2017. Our younger students had a productive time at the Junior First Lego League competition in Las Cruces. They also earned two awards. The theme was water, about which they learned quite a bit and about which they shared a lot.

9 December 2017.  Our 17th  end-of-term performance by our students was a great success.  All the performances in the title came off very well.  In addition to the still pictures in the gallery that's linked below are movies.  We've put two movies on YouTube: Bajie,...

6 December 2017.  Our students are rehearsing all their songs and other performances for the end-of-term celebration this coming Saturday, 9 December.  Yulin Zhang, who teaches Mandarin Chinese to all ages at our school, looks on with pleasure, as do all the seated...

6 December 2017.  Mark Leisher volunteers his time and expertise to teach computer programming to students.  He has two groups of students, grades 3-5 and grades 6-8.  He teaches each group for two consecutive class periods each week.  The younger students are...

Friday, 1 December 2017.  Bryan Stein and colleagues from Washington  Federal bank donate their time and expertise about 6 times a year to educate our students about finances, especially savings accounts.  They help students start accounts, then engage the students in...

A bit more outreach by the Las Cruces Academy...Vince Gutschick hosts a show, Science: let's take a look, on KTAL LP FM, Tuesdays at noon. It's at 101.5 on the FM dial or streaming on http://www.lccommunityradio.org/stream.html. The inaugural show is on December 5th.

30 November 2017. As outreach to the community, here and statewide, Board Chair Vince Gutschick gave a presentation about the biological effects of climate change on October 28th. It's on YouTube now (https://youtu.be/Ep2kYE7zigo). John Nelson was his co-organizer...

Thursday & Friday, 16 & 17 November 2017.  The middle-schoolers, in the company of teacher Ellen Armitage and parents Frank Holguin and Brian Cockriel, explored the Gila wilderness in beautiful weather.  They camped out and hiked, enjoying the history, the...

Thursday, 9 November 2017.  The young LCA students took a field trip to Downtown Las Cruces to see the museums and the Branigan Cultural Center.  It was a long, fruitful day for them.  At 9 AM they all rode the bus that stops very near our school.  Six hours later...