Chinese New Year fun, January 20th

by LCA | Apr 5, 2023 | News and Events

Teaching the Chinese language (Mandarin) is fun for teacher Yulin Zhang and learning it is just as much fun for the students. It certainly is one of our flagship teaching efforts, and it us among all local schools. Yulin brings in the cultural insights, too.  She...

The new academic year

by Leah | Sep 13, 2022 | News and Events

It’s Tuesday, September 13th. We’re just finishing four full weeks of classes in the new academic year. Forty students continuing from last year joined 10 new students and our wonderful faculty of seven dedicated and extremely qualified teachers.  Students enjoy...

Presenting at County Commission

by Leah | Sep 13, 2022 | News and Events

Presentation to the Dona Ana County Commission, Tuesday, September 13th: How hot will it get in Las Cruces? Three students of the Las Cruces Academy – Arezou and Setareh Sibley and  Morgan G. – and computer programming teacher Dr. Vince Gutschick presented a deep...

Some Useful Links for You to Get Started

by Leah | Sep 7, 2022 | Uncategorized

It seems like you’re running a default WordPress website. Here are a few useful links to get you started: Migration How to use WordPress Migrator Plugin? Migrate WordPress from Siteground to Cloudways Migrate WordPress from GoDaddy to Cloudways General How do I take...

Rewarding results of testing

by Leah | Jun 5, 2022 | events, News, News and Events

In mid-April all our students but one brand-new student took the Iowa Assessments Form E. These are national-standard tests, each set for a grade level. We use the tests to assess how well we are teaching, not to rank students against each other. The value for...

Interpreting the Iowa Assessment scores for your student

by Leah | Jun 5, 2022 | Uncategorized

April, 2022. The Iowa Assessments went smoothly and the results are both rewarding and informative. All students but one very recent student took the tests, 45 in all. Thirty-four students took the tests last year. This gives us and them a snapshot of their progress;...

James and the Giant Peach

by Leah | Jun 1, 2022 | events, News, News and Events

May 21, 2022.  In the culmination of more than a year of preparation, students in grades 3 through 8 presented the full-hour play, James and the Giant Peach, based on the story by Roald Dahl. Siblings, parents, grandparents, and teachers packed the school courtyard in...

A year in pictures and stories

by Leah | May 30, 2022 | events, News, News and Events

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All year students and teachers have been gathering pictures and stories about our lives in the Academy. Students then worked with former teacher Kelly Lin (now in California) to create this year’s yearbook.  It’s full of hundreds of images arranged artistically and...

Ending the year with a picnic

by Leah | May 30, 2022 | events, News, News and Events

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Friday, May 27, 2022. We always end the academic year with a picnic in the park. Especially in COVID-19 times, this is a most enjoyable way for all of us to socialize freely and celebrate all that we accomplished this year – students, parents, teachers,...

Students present the Solar System

by Leah | May 30, 2022 | events, News, News and Events

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Spring semester 2022. Students in grades 3-8 each created their own books about the Solar System – our Sun, Moon, and planets.  Distilling their learning over the semester, they illustrated each celestial body and wrote many telling facts about each, in fine...