Everyone has experienced math in their lives, but you don’t always get the chance to stop and reflect on what your math journey has been like. This year’s sixth graders created the beginning of their mathographies (a portmanteau of “math” and “autobiography”) to share their earliest memories of math, their
It was another exciting week for Belmont Day athletics, with our teams showing tremendous determination, teamwork, and continued improvement. From thrilling comeback victories and hard-fought games to impressive individual performances, the Blue and Gold continued to compete hard, support one another, and represent BDS with pride. The week began Tuesday
Seventh and eighth graders are in their first round of arts electives this trimester. In the “wearable art” class, students are learning how to use sewing machines to create one-of-a-kind fabric artworks. After experimenting with stitching by hand and on the machines, students learned about creating embellished fabrics with needle
It was another busy and exciting week for Belmont Day athletics, with our teams competing hard, showing tremendous improvement, and continuing to represent the Blue and Gold with pride. From thrilling victories and last-minute heroics to hard-fought games against talented opponents, our students showed teamwork, determination, and sportsmanship all week.
A seemingly simple warm-up exercise in a recent seventh grade math class posed the question, “For each pair of shapes, decide whether or not they are the same.” This warm-up should take 2 or 3 minutes. Instead, when they checked in with their groups, students realized they each had been
On Saturday, September 26, six intrepid middle school students took part in the Greater Boston Model UN Conference sponsored by the United Nations Association of Greater Boston. The students participated with about 400 other middle school students from around New England, who came together to discuss the topic of preventing
Students in eighth-grade English read S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders over the summer and have spent the first few weeks of school engaging in discussions to deepen their thinking and perhaps expand their perspectives on the book’s themes. They also have practiced writing nuanced analytical paragraphs and incorporated teacher feedback to
The fall athletics season is officially in full swing, and this week brought plenty of action for the Blue and Gold. With teams settling into their routines, we are beginning to see the work being done in practice translate into competition. From exciting wins to challenging games that provided opportunities
Sixth-grade science class recently wrapped up their unit on the scientific method by blending scientific inquiry with creative storytelling. The primary learning goal of this activity was to deepen students’ understanding of experimental design—including formulating hypotheses, identifying variables, and analyzing results—by translating procedural steps into engaging visual narratives. By creating
This week, seventh grade science launched our year-long inquiry into water—a topic we’ll continue to explore throughout the year through the lenses of Earth science, chemistry, biology, and physics. We began with a deceptively simple question: How much water is actually available to us on Earth? Students participated in a
