by Leah | May 25, 2020 | Donations
We’re revamping the site, so were going back year-by-year 2019-20 Donation of Funds LCA Families ● Ananya & Sanjoy Banik ● Andre Pattantyus ● Anonymous ● Anthony & Lisa Siino ● Audrey & Ugonna Ezeh ● Bleu Knight ● Carolyn Bowman ● Charlotte &...
by Leah | May 1, 2020 | Distance ed, News and Events
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Learning cursive writing is important – for taking notes, for signing documents, for reading such historic documents as the Declaration of Independence. Dr. Lou Ellen Kay, our Head of School, has been teaching cursive to all our students. Here are a couple of...
by Leah | Apr 29, 2020 | Distance ed, News and Events
Our third-graders have been learning science all along. Here are two drawings of flowers, labeled by name and function.
by Leah | Apr 29, 2020 | News
Our incredibly effective Chinese program continues in distance-education mode. Teacher Yulin Zhang meets with students on Zoom. She also gives them assignments in ClassDojo, including quizzes to take on Quizlet. Students are in 5 groups by level of advancement in...
by Leah | Apr 28, 2020 | Uncategorized
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Zoom meetings in computer programming have advantages: all the students get carried along in the lesson very well, seeing every step in programming. All the students and teacher Vince Gutschick share a screen. One of us is set as host. He or she runs the program...
by Leah | Apr 28, 2020 | Distance ed, Science 6-8 2022
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Our six students in the science 5-8 class meet three times a week on Zoom for far-ranging discussions… and to show their results of their home experiments growing sunflowers hydroponically. Some of the discussions start from sections in the book we’ve...
by Leah | Apr 28, 2020 | Distance ed
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Our early kindergarten / kindergarten class celebrated Earth Day. Teacher Arielle Lane provided materials and the students took it from there. Gabby planted beans, Evan made a bird feeder from a recycled bottle, Errol made a worm house, Obi was joined by his older...
by Leah | Apr 27, 2020 | Distance ed
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The Las Cruces Academy is up and running very well in distance education. Our classes run several ways – some at scheduled times in Zoom or another app, others “asynchronously” with online recordings and assignments, yet others in home sessions as readings or as...
by Leah | Mar 17, 2020 | News and Events
Saturday, 14 March 2020. Our theater club prepared for the play they wrote last year – 31 pages of script, lots of set design, lots of practice, and, now, more set-building. Parents helped too – Ugonna, Aaron, Charlotte, and Todd. Thanks to all! The...
by Leah | Mar 12, 2020 | News and Events
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has mandated the closing of all public K-12 schools in New Mexico, to begin at the end of school, Friday, March 13th. The closure will last at least three weeks, and it may be much longer. As a private school we are not under the...
