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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. ...

24 October 2017.  Here are a couple of nice, simple demos of how momentum is exchanged... and conserved, in collisions of bodies.  

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....

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...

Once more into the joyful fray!  Our young students are competing again in the Junior First Lego League.  This year’s theme is Aqua Adventure.  From the FirstInspires website, here’s a descriptor: “Find out where the water you use in your daily life comes from, and...

Here’s an opportunity for you to save money on restaurants, groceries, books, sporting goods, and more.  We’re selling great discount coupon books, raising money for us as a 501(c)(3) public educational charity and saving you much in the bargain.  SaveAround books,...

26 September 2017. The LCA supports the arts, inside our school and outside.  We just submitted copy for an ad in the program of the Las Cruces Chamber Ballet’s Nutcracker 2017 performance.  The rehearsals go on for months, of course.  The performances are scheduled...