EPE grant 2016

by Leah | Oct 17, 2016 | News and Events

October 17, 2016 We’d be remiss not to thank our many donors. We’re proud to acknowledge the El Paso Electric Company for an award to our scholarship fund, as well as LCA parents and board members, whom we’ll give a shout-out to on their own....

Our Parent Committee ready to work

by Leah | Oct 16, 2016 | News and Events

October 16, 2016 Our hard-working Parent Committee meets monthly, works inbetween meetings on tasks they set themselves, and works in subcommittees on such things as revising the LCA website. We have many active members – here’s the group that came for the...

Sunset!

by Leah | Oct 16, 2016 | News and Events

October 16, 2016 It’s not directly academic, other than for an appreciation of nature and beauty – here are pictures from the truly New Mexican sunset of Wednesday, 12 Oct.

Bali & Sulawesi

by Leah | Oct 14, 2016 | News and Events

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October 14, 2016 The presentation on culture and travel in Indonesia – Bali and Sulawesi – went well at 3-4 PM as the last class for all our students.  Board Chair Vince Gutschick had images, videos, stories, and art and artifacts from two trips in 1996 and 2010. ...

Rocketry in the desert

by Leah | Oct 7, 2016 | News and Events

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October 7, 2016 Today, Friday, 7 Oct., the middle-schoolers – Arabella, Frankie, Kira, and Xitlali – went to the desert again with teacher and board chair Dr. Vince Gutschick to launch rockets. They’re testing the hypothesis that the rocket altitude...

Readying for Lego League

by Leah | Sep 27, 2016 | News and Events

September 27, 2016 We’re moving on our participation in the Junior First Lego League, which will be our second year (as a new team) in this robotics program. Teacher Elizabeth Brasher and LCA parent Jessica Houston are the coaches for the team. Board Chair Vince...

Learning hands-on

by Leah | Sep 26, 2016 | News and Events

September 26, 2016 Students learned about molluscs – from pearl oysters to snails to deadly cone shells to octopuses to nautiluses – in science classes today for grades 1-2 and 3-5. Dr. Lou Ellen Kay, our Head of School, showed videos and brought in shells...

Picnic in the park

by Leah | Sep 19, 2016 | News and Events

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September 19, 2016 We had a picnic in the park in Mesilla on Saturday, September 10th, thanks to the organizing abilities of teacher Elizabeth Brasher and the enthusiasm of a number of our LCA families.

In the news for field trip

by Leah | Sep 10, 2016 | News and Events

September 10, 2016 We had a nice spread in the Las Cruces Bulletin on our field trip to the Jornada Water Company in late August.

Another habitable planet found?

by Leah | Aug 28, 2016 | News and Events

August 28, 2016 Have you heard about the possibly habitable planet orbiting around the star nearest to us (other than the Sun, of course), Proxima Centauri? LCA Board Chair, Dr. Vince Gutschick, wrote up a lot of interesting science behind this idea;  Budding...