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Our students show their proficiency in Chinese
Results of the official HSK exams from the Chinese government: out students score very high. From our very beginning in August, 2009, we've been teaching our students Mandarin Chinese daily, now covering three levels. Our students learn to read, write, and speak...
School calendar for 2017-18 is up
Our scrollable calendar is always here on this News and Events page. We also provide this printable, 1-page, full-year calendar in color, as a PDF file; black text on white is for notes about semester starts and ends; blue background indicates breaks with no...
Open house on August 8th
We have an open house coming up, 1-3 PM, on Tuesday, August 8th. You can meet with our Head of School, Dr. Lou Ellen Kay, two teachers, and our Board Chair, Dr. Vince Gutschick, and tour the school. We're proud of what we can offer; some see us!
Food for Thought 4 takes place
31 May 2017. After several months of planning, our signature community event and fundraiser, Food for Thought took place, for the 4th year in a row. Eleven discussion leaders engaged 41 guests and 11 volunteers on a wide range of topics: Davin Lopez from MVEDA on...
Chinese Culture Night – a success
We held a Chinese Culture Night on Wednesday, 23 May 2017 at the Academy. The event was captured in a series of videos (on YouTube, as listed below) and still images by Vince Gutschick, Board Chair, with another image from parent Monica Lopez. The Las Cruces Green...
End-of-term picnic
May 26, 2017. Our spring semester always ends with a picnic in the park, followed by preparations for our signature community event and fundraiser, Food for Thought; students, teachers, and our head of school head back to move furniture. At the picnic, there was even...
Student talent show
19 May 2017 - 2-3 PM. Eleven of our students, ages 6 through 13, showed us their talents in singing, acting, dancing, and hula-hooping. The stills and the movies speak for themselves! (At least in VLC Media Player, the movies shot vertically display correctly; they...
Chinese Culture Night
Coming on May 23rd: Chinese Culture Night, 6-8 PM. Tickets can be purchased at the Green Chamber of Commerce page, https://www.facebook.com/LCGCC/. There's Chinese food, wine, images, stories, and artifacts of China, students singing in Mandarin, martial arts,...
End-of-term performances May 2017
13 May 2017. Our students held the stage for an hour and a quarter tonight, singing, dancing, doing a short play, and showing a video they created and edited. They sang in Spanish, Chinese, and English, in one song also signing in American Sign Language. The video...
At the electric fish lab
10 May 2017. Our older students returned to the laboratory of Prof. Graciela Unguez in NMSU's Biology Department, where 2 months earlier they met the undergraduate students who were beginning their experiments. This time Graciela's students had their experimental...