Dia de Los Muertos 2018

by Leah | Nov 6, 2018 | News and Events

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2 November 2018: Our students walked to the Mesilla Plaza to view the displays for the Day of the Dead, a celebration of life of the deceased.  Teachers and parents led the group.

Open house

by Leah | Nov 3, 2018 | News and Events

Thursday, November 8th: The Las Cruces Academy is holding an open house, 11 AM to 1 PM, at the school, 1755 Avenida de Mercado in Mesilla. You can meet with our Head of School, Dr. Lou Ellen Kay, observe students in classes and at play, and talk with our great...

Math progress galore

by Leah | Nov 3, 2018 | News and Events

25 October 2018: Fast progress in high-quality math.  Teacher Kelly Lin toted up a new book order for all our math classes.  Our students are progressing so fast through the Singapore Math books that we’ve had to order more books even in the middle of this first...

Halloween Party 2018

by Leah | Nov 2, 2018 | News and Events

31 October 2018, when else!  Students Janaki and Erika planned a gala for all the students, aided by teachers and a number of parents.  They created games galore, with rewards. Many people took photos and videos.  Seventy-seven of Vince and Lou Ellen’s still...

Halloween Party 2018, the third gallery

by Leah | Nov 2, 2018 | News and Events

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Here are the final 29 images:

Halloween Party 2018, the second gallery

by Leah | Nov 2, 2018 | News and Events

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Here they are, pictures 25-48

Halloween Party 2018, the first gallery

by Leah | Nov 2, 2018 | News and Events

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The first 24 of 77 still images are here:

Dia de Los Muertos, 2018

by Leah | Nov 2, 2018 | News and Events

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2 November 2018: The  plaza in the Town of Mesilla came alive, in two senses, with remembrances of the dead, in the traditional Day of the Dead.  Our students visited and took away a different view of death.  We value diverse cultures in our school, with its very...

Intriguing chemistry classes – the full story

by Leah | Oct 29, 2018 | News and Events

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29 October 2018: We wrote up all the details of the experiment of the previous two weeks, exploring the chemical reaction of beautiful, rose-red phenolphthalein dye (not misspelled!  It’s fen-ohl-thay-leen), for which we ranged beyond chemistry to electronics,...

Fun with chemistry

by Leah | Oct 28, 2018 | News and Events

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15-26 October 2018: Here, our students in grades 4-7 science measure the rate of a chemical reaction, the decolorization of beautiful rose-red phenolphthalein.  We did a lot of background study of light, electronics, chemistry, math, and construction techniques.  At...