by Leah | Apr 25, 2017 | News and Events
Saturday, 22 April 2017. We were there, on the Downtown Plaza. Our Board Chair, Vince Gutschick, and our Head of School, Lou Ellen Kay, were joined by LCA parent Lara Milane. The LCA fitted in well with the theme of Earth Day, attested to by the banner given us as...
by Leah | Apr 25, 2017 | News and Events
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Friday, 21 April 2017. Professor Geof Smith from NMSU’s Biology Department took time to give our middle-schoolers experience in sampling bacteria from 6 soils. Students Kira and Frankie took soil samples from the bare land and from the cultivated field by the...
by Leah | Apr 25, 2017 | News and Events
HSK exam in Mandarin Chinese – on Friday, 21 April 2017, student Arabella took the Level 2 exam, and on Saturday, 22 April, seven other students took the Level 1 exam. From the HSK website: “HSK (Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi) or the Chinese Proficiency Test is an...
by Leah | Apr 25, 2017 | News and Events
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Thursday, 20 April 2017. New Mexico Game and Fish generously loaned us their archery trailer with a panoply of bows, arrows, targets, and safety backdrops. The students in grades 3-5 and in middle school had been trained carefully in earlier sessions; they competed...
by Leah | Apr 25, 2017 | News and Events
Sustainable Business of 2017 – the Las Cruces Green Chamber of Commerce held its annual meeting on Wednesday evening, 19 April, at the Grapevine Plaza, and there we were overwhelmed to get the award, being selected among 19 nominees. The award, co-sponsored by the...
by Leah | Apr 25, 2017 | News and Events
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NMSU’s Insect Zoo visits us – Friday, 31 March 2017. Helen Vessels brought a team to let our students see – and, in some cases, handle – some quite astounding insects and arachnids (spiders). The big Madagascar hissing cockroach was a hit, as was the large walking...
by Leah | Apr 13, 2017 | News and Events
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Saturday, 8 April 2017. Capping a big day with three LCA events (International Festival, Volunteer Fair, and this play), students working with faculty advisor Elizabeth Brasher performed a 20-minute play, “Try, Try Again.” Student Arabella Camunez wrote...
by Leah | Apr 8, 2017 | Testimonials
[Our son] continues to impress us with such topics as the roles of participants in a federal courtroom his class had visited, the universe and our solar system, the different branches of the US government, the history and culture of New Mexico, etc.
by Leah | Apr 8, 2017 | Testimonials
[Our son] has been at Las Cruces Academy for nearly two years, beginning with the 2nd grade. He is currently learning both Spanish and Chinese, two languages besides English in which my husband and I want him to become fluent. He arrived at LCA with deficient math...
by Leah | Apr 8, 2017 | Testimonials
Las Cruces Academy is a place for intellectual and personal development where our son has grown at his own pace, but particularly happy, challenged, and motivated. The environment in the academy is rich in many ways; for example, the kids are place in groups by range...
