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.
7 September 2018. Here is a view from the edge of our parking lot. We have a very fortunate location.
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Thursday, 13 September 2018: We're 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 ...
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5 September 2018. Our students progress fast with a great teacher, Yulin Zhang. These are beginning students, who’ve never had Chinese before, and it’s just the 4th week of classes! Good work, all of you. Here's a
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5 September 2018: We’re just over 3 weeks into the new school year, in our tenth year of classes. New and continuing students, a new teacher joining us, and vibrant classes fill the school. Our 13 students in early K/kindergarten ...
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A Tuesday activity - makers' time with our Head of School, Dr. Lou Ellen Kay (who has made amazing furniture, herself). Students pick what they want to make, as a potentially durable object - perhaps a patterned lampshade of an ...
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17 August 18. As we were cleaning up after our very successful LCA Community Meeting with parents, students, teachers, and Board members, we caught this beautiful sunset from our courtyard. Enjoy ...
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15 August 2018. Most of our students stay and play, and study, after the school day ends. It's a great socialization time for them. We don't charge for this time, which runs to 5:30 PM for the convenience of working ...
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17 August 2018. The new school year is off to a great start. We have 40 students already, with more inquiring about our waiting lists for early K/K and grades 1-2. Most of the families met at our first LCA Community ...
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21 August 2018. Congratulations, LCA Board member, David Gutschick! He just finished his Ph. D. at the Ohio State University, in Materials Science and Engineering. Our newly minted Ph. D. is also the son of Lou Ellen Kay, our Head ...
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Their Community Partners program just awarded us funds for ou Diverse Students Scholarship Fund. This makes the 10th year in a row! ...
Read MoreBrowse 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”).
