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Honoring Milestone Years of Service & Retirements at Belmont Day

The annual Corporation and Parents’ Association open meetings were held on Thursday, May 13. To open the meetings, head of school Brendan Largay, recognized the following members of the faculty who have reached milestones in their service at Belmont Day and those who are retiring from BDS. Congratulations to all!  Blair

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Learning Updates for Week of May 10 to May 14

PE Update: Fourth Graders Travel Back to the Ancient Olympics

The Ancient Greeks are not the only ones who love a good athletic competition! Our fourth graders took their learning from the classroom to the fields this week by competing in the first annual Greek Olympics! T

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Learning Updates for Week of May 3 to May 7

Pre-kindergartners Create Giant New Dinosaur Sculpture and Friend

Measuring 71 inches tall, 13 feet long, and three feet wide and taking over six weeks to complete, the pre-kindergartners are proud to share a completed Giganotosaurus sculpture! Grown from a love of dinosaurs, this project started as an example of an emergent curriculum that ultimately flowed into our spring sculpture curriculum. While the final result is truly a phenomenal showcase, the process and learning behind the product is where the true magic lies.

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Lesley University Honors Cat DiCara ’12 with June Fox Award

For the third year in a row, a member of the Belmont Day School Associate Teacher Program has won Lesley University’s Graduate School of Education June T. Fox Scholarship Award. Catherine (Cat) DiCara ’12, not only a member of this year’s associate teacher cohort but also a BDS alum, was

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Learning Updates for Week of April 12 to April 16

Arts Update: Fourth Grade Quilt Project

Students in fourth grade art class just completed their hand-sewn quilts inspired by an investigation of African American quilting traditions. Students learned about the Gee’s Bend quilting tradition from rural Alabama that began in the 1800s and is still vibrant today. Beginning as a necessity, these fabric artworks have emerged as an American art form.

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Learning Updates for Week of March 29 to April 2

Arts Update: Improv Sets Off Some Wild Stories

In our eighth grade theater intensive, the students learned about acting and empathy and then wrote monologues from a shoe’s perspective. They next analyzed a scene adapted from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. They also created an original set design for the scene. At the end of the intensive, we learned to say “yes” and build on each others’ ideas in a series of improvisation games. Two favorites were “The Worst Day Ever” and “Late to Work.” In the first game, everyone has thirty seconds to regale their peers with a description of their worst day ever.

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Learning Updates for Week of March 22 to March 26

Author Visits With Our Youngest Learners On Thursday morning, grades pre-K to 1 met via Zoom with author and illustrator Sam Wedelich to talk about her new book Chicken Little and the Big Bad Wolf. In the lead-up to the event, teachers read her books to the students and made

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Learning Updates for Week of March 15 to 19

Sixth Graders Hone Their Creative Writing Skills When English begins, the clock strikes WRITE! Sixth grade students continue to explore themes of growth and change–this time in their own writing. Each class starts with a unique prompt to inspire exploration and experimentation. We are starting as many stories as possible

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Learning Updates for Week of March 1 to March 5

Second Graders Begin Research on Environmental Changemakers Over the last few weeks, second graders have been exploring what it means to be a changemaker. Through the exciting, vibrant books of our visiting authors Suzanne Slade and Heather Lang, students have been reading stories of people who made the decision to

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Learning Updates for Week of February 22 to February 26

Third Graders Learn About Animal Adaptations Third graders in Ms. Twarog’s cohort have been learning how physical and behavioral adaptations help animals to survive. After exploring adaptations that help animals in particular ecosystems, students were tasked with creating their own animals. Each of their animals fit within an existing food web

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By Belmont Day School |

May 24, 2021

The annual Corporation and Parents’ Association open meetings were held on Thursday, May 13. To open the meetings, head of school Brendan Largay, recognized the following members of the faculty who have reached milestones in their service at Belmont Day and…
bds pe fouth olympics 1 05.13.21scoop

BDS

May 14, 2021

PE Update: Fourth Graders Travel Back to the Ancient Olympics The Ancient Greeks are not the only ones who love a good athletic competition! Our fourth graders took their learning from the classroom to the fields this week by competing…
bds prek gigantosaurus 3 05.06.21scoop

BDS

May 7, 2021

Pre-kindergartners Create Giant New Dinosaur Sculpture and Friend Measuring 71 inches tall, 13 feet long, and three feet wide and taking over six weeks to complete, the pre-kindergartners are proud to share a completed Giganotosaurus sculpture! Grown from a love…
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By Heather Woodcock, director of the associate teacher program |

April 30, 2021

For the third year in a row, a member of the Belmont Day School Associate Teacher Program has won Lesley University’s Graduate School of Education June T. Fox Scholarship Award. Catherine (Cat) DiCara ’12, not only a member of this…
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BDS

April 16, 2021

Arts Update: Fourth Grade Quilt Project Students in fourth grade art class just completed their hand-sewn quilts inspired by an investigation of African American quilting traditions. Students learned about the Gee’s Bend quilting tradition from rural Alabama that began in the 1800s…

BDS

April 2, 2021

Arts Update: Improv Sets Off Some Wild Stories In our eighth grade theater intensive, the students learned about acting and empathy and then wrote monologues from a shoe’s perspective. They next analyzed a scene adapted from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s…

BDS

March 26, 2021

Author Visits With Our Youngest Learners On Thursday morning, grades pre-K to 1 met via Zoom with author and illustrator Sam Wedelich to talk about her new book Chicken Little and the Big Bad Wolf. In the lead-up to the…

BDS

March 19, 2021

Sixth Graders Hone Their Creative Writing Skills When English begins, the clock strikes WRITE! Sixth grade students continue to explore themes of growth and change–this time in their own writing. Each class starts with a unique prompt to inspire exploration…

BDS

March 5, 2021

Second Graders Begin Research on Environmental Changemakers Over the last few weeks, second graders have been exploring what it means to be a changemaker. Through the exciting, vibrant books of our visiting authors Suzanne Slade and Heather Lang, students have…

BDS

February 26, 2021

Third Graders Learn About Animal Adaptations Third graders in Ms. Twarog’s cohort have been learning how physical and behavioral adaptations help animals to survive. After exploring adaptations that help animals in particular ecosystems, students were tasked with creating their own animals.…
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