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Open house at the Academy

Open house at the Academy

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...

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World culture – Vietnam and Cambodia

World culture – Vietnam and Cambodia

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...

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Halloween Party

Halloween Party

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...

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Momentum demo to young students

Momentum demo to young students

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...

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Dia de Los Muertos 2017

Dia de Los Muertos 2017

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...

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Climate knowledge

Climate knowledge

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...

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Yearbook Club in its 3rd month

Yearbook Club in its 3rd month

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. ...

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Chinese culture: martial arts

Chinese culture: martial arts

29 Sept. 2017. Our students not only speak, read, and write Mandarin Chinese; they learn the culture. Teacher Yulin Zhang invited martial arts expert Xue Jun from NMSU's Confucius Institute to teach students some martial arts. Here the beginning class has a turn....

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Open house at the LCA

Open house at the LCA

We have another great open house event on Tuesday, October 10th, 2017. 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...

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