With the switch to offsite learning due to the coronavirus outbreak, our faculty will be sharing various curriculum highlights from their "classrooms" over the coming weeks.
Pre-k Launches Lunch Bunch!
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Post Date: April 6th, 2020
Post Date: March 30th, 2020
With the switch to offsite learning due to the coronavirus outbreak, our faculty will be sharing various curriculum highlights from their "classrooms" over the coming weeks.
PE Keeps Students Moving
Post Date: March 25th, 2020
Devorah Heitner PhD, author of Screenwise: Helping Kids Thrive (and Survive) in Their Digital World, will present How to Deal with ALL the Screens During COVID 2019 Family Time on Monday, March 30, from 7 to 8:30 p.m.
Use this Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/2037922871 to join in.
Post Date: March 20th, 2020
With the switch to offsite learning due to the coronavirus outbreak, our faculty will be sharing various curriculum highlights from their "classrooms" over the coming weeks.
Kindergarten Learns About Measurements
Post Date: March 6th, 2020
By Alex Tzelnic and Abbey Nyland, physical education teachers
Our pre-kindergarten to grade four physical education students have been on a roll since February break, learning new games, using new materials, and getting into an athletic groove.
Post Date: March 6th, 2020
By John O'Neill, Director of Athletics
Alumni Speaking to Middle School Athletes
Next week, the athletics department will welcome back Adam DeFranc ’13 and Samantha Friborg ’14 as the second installment in the Mud Week Speaker Series. This fall, Belmont resident and World Marathon Champion Becca Pizzi shared her story with middle school athletes, and on Monday, DeFranc and Friborg will do the same. DeFranc is currently a member of the men’s basketball team at Skidmore College while Friborg is running cross-country and track & field at Yale University.
Athletics News
Post Date: March 5th, 2020
By Yui Kitamura, music teacher
Students in the second grade music class completed the woodwind unit this week as they practiced basic resting and playing positions and the notes, B, A, and G on the recorder.
Post Date: February 28th, 2020
By John O'Neill, Director of Athletics
Following back-to-back winning seasons, the boys’ varsity basketball team will need to rebuild next year. A program-record nine eighth grade players were on the roster this winter, and their experience will be sorely missed moving forward.
Post Date: February 27th, 2020
By Bill Smith, Woodworking and 21st Century Skills Teacher
Students Develop Range of Woodworking Skills
The woodworking studio teaches lessons across a broad range of students each day. In first grade, students recently completed work on some very colorful pencil holders which they designed and created. Students in grades seven and eight are making progress on learning the intricate art of wood carving. Check out the photos to see the students' progress!
Post Date: February 19th, 2020
By Belmont Day School
In November, four Belmont Day social studies teachers attended the National Council on Social Studies (NCSS) annual conference in Austin, Texas. From a city well-known for great music, the team returned with their minds dancing with new lesson plans, resources, pedagogical approaches, and professional contacts. Attendees Larissa Rochford '93 (third grade), Julia Juster (fifth grade), Dean Spencer (sixth and seventh grades), and Suzanne Caruso (seventh and eighth grades) recently reflected on their takeaways from and impact of the conference:
