Distance education in Chinese

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...

Distance education – computer programming

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...

Science grades 5-8: home experiments and Zoom

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...

Distance education, part 2!

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...

Distance education, part 1!

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...

Theater club

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...

For the moment, the Academy is NOT closing

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...

Learning to manage money

by Leah | Mar 6, 2020 | News and Events

6 March 2020: Our students in grades 3-8 got valuable lessons in money management from Bryan Stein of Washington Federal bank.  He engaged the students about credit cards and debit cards, offering four illustrative scenarios of fictional people using credit cards,...

Mattress sell-a-thon

by Leah | Mar 6, 2020 | News and Events

6-16 March 2020: Ashley Homestore is running a mattress sale to benefit the Academy!   We’ll get 40% of the sale price on all mattresses sold when buyers present the event flier… and LCA students earn rewards!  The mattress prices are just what you’d...

Young engineers

by Leah | Feb 29, 2020 | News and Events

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28 February 2020:  More in our after-school engineering club. Our young students in kindergarten through 6th grade recently constructed a “Core Sampler,” which basically uses potential energy with rubber bands and straws to puncture holes in fruit and...