As the fall athletics season comes to a close, our student-athletes have plenty to celebrate! After weeks of practices, games, meets, and countless opportunities to learn and grow, our teams wrapped up their final interscholastic competitions this week. While the competitive schedule may be complete, the fall season is not
When guests walk into the Coolidge Art Studio lately, the first questions have been “WHAT are those made out of?” and “HOW are those made?!” The eye-catching work everyone is talking about is from the seventh and eighth grade arts elective class, Life-Size Sculpture. Inspired by the work of American
As we enter the final week of interscholastic competition for the fall season, our Belmont Day teams continue to demonstrate the growth, determination, and teamwork that have defined the past several months. From exciting victories and hard-fought ties to impressive individual performances, the Blue and Gold have competed with pride.
This year, the Day of the Dead celebration filled our middle school Spanish classes with different lessons, materials, and activities. Students were eager to learn about Mexican traditions and vocabulary, and learned from videos, articles, books, and more. Sixth grade students made calaveritas de azucar using a traditional recipe and
To begin exploring the applications of genetic concepts in humans, eighth grade students completed an inquiry activity to understand how human blood donations work. Using water with food coloring to represent different blood types, students conducted blood transfusions between a donor and a recipient to determine which blood types could
While parent-teacher conferences made for a shorter week, there was certainly no shortage of excitement for the Blue and Gold! From impressive soccer victories and a thrilling volleyball match to outstanding performances at the Park Invitational, our student-athletes continued to demonstrate determination, teamwork, and growth as we approach the final
This fall, for Hispanic Heritage Month, grade 7 students read Pablo Neruda’s brilliant poem, Ode to My Socks. Using this as a basis, they wrote their own odes to clothing items in their lives that make the mundane more meaningful. This was a chance to connect with a poet and
The excitement continues to build around Belmont Day athletics as our teams put together another terrific week of competition, highlighted by impressive victories, hard-fought games, and outstanding individual performances. With the fall season moving quickly, our student-athletes continue to demonstrate growth, teamwork, and determination each time they compete. And perhaps
This week in sixth grade science class, students became crystal scientists! The class conducted an exciting hands-on lab growing beautiful borax crystals, which helped them understand how rocks and minerals form deep within the Earth. This introductory activity kicked off their unit on plate tectonics and the geosphere, bringing big
In seventh-grade Latin this week, the students put on skits! The project started with reading a story in Latin about two teenagers doing a possibly bad job mediating a conflict between squabbling younger siblings. As they read, each group summarized the story in English, and then they transformed their summary
