Annual Events
27-28 October – Book fair for the LCA at Barnes & Noble in the Mesilla Valley Mall
16 December, starting at 5 PM – End-of-term performance and potluck supper
23 – 27 April, before and after school – Scholastic Book Fair
12 May, starting at 5 PM – End-of-term performance and potluck supper
25 May – Last day of school; there will be an all-school picnic at noon
30 May, 5-7:30 PM – Food for Thought, our big community event and fundraiser
News
Our scrollable calendar is always here on this News and Events page. We also provide this printable, 1-page, full-year calendar in color, as a PDF file; black text on white is for notes about semester starts and ends; blue background indicates breaks with no classes; open house events are on the salmon background, while green is for events for our whole LCA Community.
29 Sept. 2017. Our students not only speak, read, and write Mandarin Chinese; they learn the culture. Teacher Yulin Zhang invited martial arts expert Xue Jun from NMSU's Confucius Institute to teach students some martial arts. Here the beginning class ...
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We have another great open house event on Tuesday, October 10th, 2017. Come see our school, engage with our outreach in science and world culture, view classes (8:30-10:00 AM), talk with teachers (5:30-6:30 PM). We welcome families considering enrolling their ...
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Once more into the joyful fray! Our young students are competing again in the Junior First Lego League. This year’s theme is Aqua Adventure. From the FirstInspires website, here’s a descriptor: “Find out where the water you use in your ...
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Here’s an opportunity for you to save money on restaurants, groceries, books, sporting goods, and more. We’re selling great discount coupon books, raising money for us as a 501(c)(3) public educational charity and saving you much in the bargain. SaveAround ...
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26 September 2017. The LCA supports the arts, inside our school and outside. We just submitted copy for an ad in the program of the Las Cruces Chamber Ballet’s Nutcracker 2017 performance. The rehearsals go on for months, of course. ...
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10 & 22 September 2017. Both city newspapers have featured the LCA for our extensive recycling program. The Bulletin ran a story on 10 September and the Sun-News on 22 September. Thanks, you two, for the recognition, and thanks to ...
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25 September 2017. Our new teacher for Mandarin Chinese, Yulin Zhang, has been on the job now for 6 weeks. She and the students are thriving. Here she’s teaching the students to write the characters for the numbers 1-12. They’re ...
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We have another great open house event on Tuesday, September 12th, 2017. Come see our school, engage with our outreach in science and world culture, view classes (8:30-10:00 AM), talk with teachers (5:30-7:00 PM). We welcome families considering enrolling their ...
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Monday, 21 August 2017. LCA students view the eclipse, three ways. The Great American Eclipse of 2017 treated our students to an outdoor experience, a rare optical treat, and an appreciation of the Solar System. Students came out in groups, about ...
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There's always access to our scrolling calendar on this News and Events page, upper left; we also provide a printable
full-academic-year calendar here. It's color-coded, with school event in black text on white, open houses in black text on salmon, ...
Read More Browse the news archive here. Once you get to the archive, to see an entire post with its images, click on the date (rather than “Vince Gutschick” or “News and Events”).