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The staff of Belmont Elementary would like to thank each of you who have served, or are serving in the military in any capacity, for your dedication to preserving the rights that we enjoy in our country. We see the commitment you've made and appreciate your sacrifice for our families.

Belmont Bulldogs will all have the opportunity to participate in a World Kindness Day activity in their classrooms on Monday, November 13. In conjunction with Operation Uplift, we will be making cards for military personnel for the holidays, as well as supporting a Chapstick drive that week.

Operation Uplift is a local non-profit organization that collects supplies for care packages and then helps distribute them to deployed troops around the world. Our cards and Chapsticks will be included in the care packages being sent out right after Thanksgiving.

Please send in Chapstick from November 13-17. No specifics to the size, brand, or flavor. Just a kind soldiers around the world might look forward to receiving. Our school goal is 500 tubes of Chapstick!! Help us make someone else's day brighter!

We would LOVE for all students and staff to wear YELLOW on World Kindness Day to help spread a little sunshine around!

While our focus at Belmont is to BE kind people, we recognize BEing kind includes deliberate acts of kindness! Thanks for helping us deliberately spread kindness!

Some of your children may have told you about something new they heard last week over the intercom. There was a really calm lady saying, "Hold in Place." She then gave some directions to stay in your classroom and continue as usual until you are told that the hold in place is over. Our students and staff did a BEautiful job of listening and doing. (More about that later- Listen. Do. is a goal of ours this quarter!)

This is a new system that we have that allows us to send a timely message to everyone all at once that something is happening that would be best resolved with a little bit of space and time. This could be a medical need, or a behavioral learning need, or something similar. This message does NOT mean that there is danger in the building. It means that someone is having a tough time and they need a little bit of space and time to feel better. That is literally what I tell any child who asks and their responses are always, "oh, I'm glad they feel better now!" Our kids are literally the best.

We have, with our new crisis badge system, the opportunity to more efficiently communicate in the building, as well as with district staff, whenever someone needs assistance. This has been fabulous! Funny story, a teammate and I showed other parents at the last PTO meeting how the badge system works and the district safety officer, Mrs. Schreiber and our Counselor all checked in immediately to make sure that everyone was okay! How great is that?

I'm so thankful to work in a school district that takes school safety seriously and works to provide supports that we need to keep everyone safe in our school community.

November 13 World Kindness Day- wear yellow!

November 16 4th Grade Music Program, 9:00am and 6:30pm

November 20-24 Thanksgiving Break, No School

November 27 Site Council, 4:30pm

November 27 PTO Meeting, 6:30pm

Visit the BE Online Calendar of Events (by clicking on the button below) for a more complete list of activities!

11:15-11:42 1st Grade

11:25-11:52 Kindergarten

11:55-12:22 5th Grade

12:05-12:32 4th Grade

12:35-1:02 2nd Grade

12:45-1:15 3rd Grade

Reservations required to join your child for lunch- CLICK HERE to reserve your spot at a family table!

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Location: 5805 Belmont Drive, Shawnee, KS 66226, United States
Phone: (913)667-1810
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