Building Sets for Grade 7 & 8 Play The middle school student set crew is hard at work creating the stage set this year’s grades 7 and 8 play, Babka Without Borders. The crew is making 10 wall flats with windows and doors, along with a counter and podium. Through
Fifth Graders Combine Technology and Woodworking Fifth grade students are putting the final touches on their projects from the combined woodworking and technology class. The students are adding either a MakeyMakey or micro:bit to their wood projects which will allow them to interact with the code they wrote in Scratch.
Fourth Grade Students Create Greek Ceramics In conjunction with their study of Ancient Greece, each fourth grade student made a ceramic relief tile in art class depicting a scene or character from a story that they planned to tell at the Greek Festival. First, the students each created a sketch
Tickets for Grades 7 & 8 Play Available May 1 The Belmont Day Theater Department is proud to announce that tickets for Babka Without Borders will become available on Wednesday, May 1. Tickets are free and can be reserved by visiting https://belmontday.brownpapertickets.com/. Please note that seating is limited and tickets will
Camp Kindness a Rousing Success! First and second graders performed the musical, Camp Kindness, to a packed audience today. This heartwarming story explains that life isn’t easy, especially for kids growing up. Sometimes our fears, circumstances, and limitations can make friendships, learning, expressing, and creating difficult. But as this camp shows,
Time to F.A.C.E. the Music During the month of April, our young music students in pre-k and kindergarten will be challenged to F.A.C.E. the music. They are learning the letter names of the notes in the spaces of the treble clef. Matching the letters with the notes on the staff
Learning More Complex Programming Students in fifth grade have begun programming their final project in technology class. Students are using the Scratch or Microsoft MakeCode programming environments and either a MakeyMakey or micro:bit as a way to interact with their programs beyond just the computer. They are learning how servos
Creative Movement Fifth grade students explored creative movement in Ms. Dempsey’s theater class this past week. They began by experiencing locomotor (from place to place) and non-locomotor (in place) movement. Next, the students experimented with ways their bodies could soar, flitter, scamper, slither, and float, and also discovered how to
Transitions Seventh and eighth graders in the pottery wheel arts elective class finished their work this week by glazing their thrown ceramic works. The transition from a raw, amorphous lump of clay into a functional piece of pottery is a journey including many different steps. In the beginning days of
Exploring Polyrhythms through Ghanaian Drumming In fourth grade general music, students have been learning about the cultural and historical roots of Ghanaian drumming traditions. After learning about the Ewe people and their culture, students learned how to play the grooves of the Gankogui (two bells with different pitches), Axatse (rattle-like
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