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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...

14 November 2017, 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...

1 November 2017.  Students in grades early K - 2 and then 3 - 8 got to see a selection of 36 images out of the 5500 taken by Vince Gutschick and Lou Ellen Kay in June of this year.  Vince, the Board Chair, and Lou Ellen, the Head of School, toured the beautiful...

31 October 2017 - when else?!  Students, teachers, parents joined in the fun.  The older students planned the games and food for a couple of weeks, then engaged the younger students in some classic games - wrapping older students with tissue paper as mummies, pin the...

30 October 2017.  The middle-schoolers treated the 1st- and 2nd-graders to a demonstration of how motion (momentum, to be more precise) is exchanged among colliding steel balls.  After a goodly amount of planning and testing, they brought Newton's cradle to the front...

27 October 2017.  Our students, our teachers, and eleven parents and other relatives walked from the school this afternoon to the Mesilla Plaza.  They saw the touching, beautiful displays as celebrations of lives, not as worries about death. [unitegallery...

28 October 2017. Board Chair Vince Gutschick is a co-organizer and presenter at the statewide climate conference this Saturday.  He'll share his knowledge of a range of sciences, as outreach to the public that is part of the LCA mission statement.  His presentation is...

25 October 2017.  Each Wednesday the Yearbook Club meets to design this year's Yearbook, which will come out in the spring.  The students meet with teacher Ellen Armitage to do the layout, gather images and stories, and prepare for the submission to our publisher. ...