News
Our Parent Committee ready to work
October 16, 2016 Our hard-working Parent Committee meets monthly, works inbetween meetings on tasks they set themselves, and works in subcommittees on such things as revising the LCA website. We have many active members - here's the group that came for the meeting on...
Sunset!
October 16, 2016 It's not directly academic, other than for an appreciation of nature and beauty - here are pictures from the truly New Mexican sunset of Wednesday, 12 Oct.
Bali & Sulawesi
October 14, 2016 The presentation on culture and travel in Indonesia – Bali and Sulawesi – went well at 3-4 PM as the last class for all our students. Board Chair Vince Gutschick had images, videos, stories, and art and artifacts from two trips in 1996 and 2010. ...
Rocketry in the desert
October 7, 2016 Today, Friday, 7 Oct., the middle-schoolers - Arabella, Frankie, Kira, and Xitlali - went to the desert again with teacher and board chair Dr. Vince Gutschick to launch rockets. They're testing the hypothesis that the rocket altitude scales with the...
Readying for Lego League
September 27, 2016 We're moving on our participation in the Junior First Lego League, which will be our second year (as a new team) in this robotics program. Teacher Elizabeth Brasher and LCA parent Jessica Houston are the coaches for the team. Board Chair Vince...
Learning hands-on
September 26, 2016 Students learned about molluscs - from pearl oysters to snails to deadly cone shells to octopuses to nautiluses - in science classes today for grades 1-2 and 3-5. Dr. Lou Ellen Kay, our Head of School, showed videos and brought in shells she...
Picnic in the park
September 19, 2016 We had a picnic in the park in Mesilla on Saturday, September 10th, thanks to the organizing abilities of teacher Elizabeth Brasher and the enthusiasm of a number of our LCA families.
In the news for field trip
September 10, 2016 We had a nice spread in the Las Cruces Bulletin on our field trip to the Jornada Water Company in late August.
Another habitable planet found?
August 28, 2016 Have you heard about the possibly habitable planet orbiting around the star nearest to us (other than the Sun, of course), Proxima Centauri? LCA Board Chair, Dr. Vince Gutschick, wrote up a lot of interesting science behind this idea; Budding...
Field trip to Jornada Water Company
August 22, 2016 Denny Rogers, owner of the Jornada Water Company, hosted a field trip to their well on Highway 28 near Carver Road. For over an hour we learned incredible details about how water is found, pumped, treated, measured, and priced. In 30 days, the City of...