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Belmont Elementary: A PAWSitive Place to Learn!
First Quarter Celebration of Learning in the Books!
We celebrated our TEAMMATE skills, played "Monty Says..." to practice our active listening skills, got updates on our first quarter challenges (The young men's sink area was kept significantly neater than the young women's side, so yay! We're still working toward three days in a row for catching EVERY locker closed with all messes cleaned up on the floor in front! We'll get there!), classwide goal attainment, attendance (shout out to our 4th graders!) and then dug into our school-wide expectations recognitions. We celebrated students who consistently and independently demonstrate how to BE Kind, BE Aware, Work Hard and BElieve We Can! We followed that up by recognizing all students who scored at the 85%ile or above nationally on Fall FastBridge assessments, and then rounded out our celebrations by recognizing thirty-three students for Proud Paw Moments! Wowza! SO FUN!!
If we read your child's name, congratulations! As their parent, you most definitely had a little something to do with their success! If we didn't read your child's name yesterday, there's time! We will do a Celebration of Learning every quarter. The best part is that there are NO LIMITS to how many students can be on the list and EVERY STUDENT has it in them to get their name on one or more or ALL of the lists! We want to read every student's name and celebrate together!! As a collective team at Belmont, we BELIEVE that is possible! Thank you for continuing to support your child as they grow their skills in every area! Every child learning! Every child growing! This is the good stuff!!
Belmont Student Leaders Sponsor Food Drive
Belmont's student leadership team is proud to sponsor a food drive to benefit the De Soto Food Pantry. Items should be brought to school between October 24th and 31st, although items that show up before or after the drive will certainly find their way to the pantry.
To add to the excitement for participating students, members of Team BE have put their creativity into decorating pumpkins as favorite children's book characters. Every item donated for the food drive will count as a vote and the creator of the winning pumpkin character will win the joy of being appreciated and knowing that their creation was loved by our students! It's all for fun!
The De Soto Food Pantry shared a list of most desired food items and we've shared it below. Thank you so much for helping us to make a positive difference at Belmont and beyond. If every child is able to bring one item, we'll make a positive difference on the shelves.
Peanut butter
Jelly
Canned fruit
Canned meat
Canned veggies (other than green beans, we have a lot of those )
Canned beans
Pasta sauce
Soup
Coming Up at BE:
October 19 End of 1st Quarter, Celebration of Learning
October 20 NO SCHOOL, Professional Learning/Teacher Workday
October 23 NO SCHOOL, District Professional Learning Day
October 24-31 Food Drive
October 31 Fall Parties and Parade
Visit the BE Online Calendar of Events (by clicking on the button below) for a more complete list of activities!
Oooooooh!! Fall Fun to End the Month!
PTO (that's you) sponsors three classroom parties for our students: Fall, Winter and Valentines Day. First up is our Fall Party Day, scheduled for Tuesday, October 31st! Last year's format brought all the fun with zero fright so we're sticking with the plan and doing it all again! Start crossing your fingers for BEautiful weather for our parade!
Here's the plan:
- Costumes!
- Party!
- Parade!
Details, details, details....
- Costumes are encouraged for students during the party and parade time, but of course, they are not required. Experience has taught us that it's really not as easy as you'd think for students to manage a costume all day, so costumes should be brought to school in a bag or backpack and should be fairly easy for your kiddo to put on by themselves with minimal assistance. Costumes should be elementary appropriate and not too scary. Please do not include blood, guts, gore or weapons of any kind. Accessories (think..projectiles and things to trip over) should stay at home and be saved for Halloween night trick-or-treating. Masks are fine as long as vision is not impaired for walking in the parade!
- Classroom Party help is encouraged, but will be limited to best accommodate student needs! We would like to invite 2-3 parents from each classroom to plan and lead a craft, game or both for the 2:45-3:15 party in their child's class. These parents will be welcomed into the classroom at 2:30 to set up as well as assist younger students with their costumes if needed. We will NOT be serving food at parties. This helps us to both enjoy more time playing, and alleviate allergy concerns for every child. They'll get PLENTY of candy and treats during trick or treating with your family- and you'll be able to best monitor their safety! If you would like to volunteer to plan and lead your child's classroom party, please contact your child's teacher ASAP. If more parents are interested than we have room for, we'll have a drawing and save names for the next party. Thank you so much for your time!
- Outdoor Parade at 3:!5! YOUR ENTIRE FAMILY is invited for a front row view of all of our little monsters, movie stars, scientists, musicians, scarecrows, animals, super heroes, creators, book characters, princesses, ..............oh, my goodness! I can hardly wait! Here's how we know we can best make this happen- when you arrive for the parade, you may either park in an open parking space and walk up to the front lawn (we'll provide guidance for the best view) or just pull right up in the regular pick up loops, turn off your car and leave it in line, then walk up to the viewing area. After the parade (about 3:32ish) just walk right back to your cars and get ready for the loops to move like normal at regular dismissal time. Please, do not come inside to check your kiddos out early- we'll need those precious minutes to make sure our Bulldogs are all packed up and ready to go with all costume parts intact for the big night. Genius!
It's going to BE Spooktacular!! We hope you can join us for the parade and appreciate the planners who volunteer to lead the crafts and activities!
2023-2024 Lunch Schedule
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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