National School Breakfast Week at Belwood is bussin!
This week, T-Rex paid a visit to Belwood for Read Across America. This is the continuation of a year long Literacy Program to bring dinosaurs and paleontologists to life and promote reading in all areas. At the beginning of the year, Principal Monica Holt teamed up with Mr. Terry Allee and his company, You Asked For it! LLC, to create the year long plan. Belwood's theme was dinosaurs, so Mr. Allee created 2 characters, Dr. Robert Elijah Xavier Thornton aka Dr. Bob, a paleontologist, and T-Rex.
Throughout the year, both characters have visited Belwood and created a story for the entire school to be a part of. The story connects many books like the Dinosaurs that Pooped Series and many others to add to the overall story. The Program has included multiple videos with Book Readings and clues to help fill in HOW a T-Rex made his way to Belwood!
Students have made the story their own by finding artifacts around the school, by examining the “dinosaur” poop found near the playground, and reading and researching the role of paleontologists. The ultimate goal is to unite Dr. Bob and the T-Rex and to help get the T-Rex back home, to complete the story.
How that will happen is still unfolding and what the next chapter holds, we will have to wait and see...…
This Program has engaged students in all grades on multiple levels and has created great excitement throughout the school for Literacy by allowing all students to create their own story on their own level.
WE NEED YOUR INPUT!
All parents, families, school staff, students, and community members:
We need your input to plan for the 2025-2026 school year! This is an opportunity for you to provide input and suggestions to build new ideas and create positive change in our school.
We will review and revise the following:
School-Parent Compact, School Improvement Plan, District Parent & Family Engagement Policy, and Consolidated LEA Improvement Plan (CLIP). Come share ideas about how the 1% set aside for Parent & Family Engagement can be best used.
March 20, 2025
12-2 pm
For more information, you can contact us or visit our website:
Telephone: 706-629-9547
Email: monicaholt@gcbe.org
Website: www.gcbe.org/o/bes
More fun adventures from our Dr. Seuss dress up days!
This week we are celebrating
National School Breakfast Week (NSBW) by having important members of our community come and serve breakfast to our students at Belwood!
Breakfast is very important for kids because it provides energy, nutrients, and brain-boosting fuel, so that they can concentrate on the lessons instead of their rumbling tummies!
Terry And Linda Mathis donated a glider chair to Mr. Muse's classroom to replace one that was broken earlier in the year.
The chair provides in-class sensory support to his students.
We are so thankful to have members of our community who care so much for our students and staff!
Thank you Mr. and Mrs. Mathis!
Belwood is truly blessed ❤️
No School on
Friday, March 21st
Gordon County School System has an
At Home Learning Day
Parents and Guardians get ready!
On Wednesday, March 19th and Thursday, March 20th
Belwood will hold student led parent conferences.
It is your child's time to SHINE!
Students will release at 11:30 both days.
Belwood's teacher Ms. Nasco recognized Jase Weaver for showing kindness to his classmate.
Instead of making fun of someone for not knowing how to spell a word, Jase helped him spell it! Nice job Jase.
That is how the world is changed - one letter at a time ❤️💯
Belwood's Kindness Tree is in FULL Bloom🌳❤️
Way to go Timber Duncan in Ms. Zimerle's kindergarten class and Tristan Hiles in Ms. Shipley's 5th grade homeroom!
Your kindness makes a difference!!
#TogetherGCS
#TogetherWeAreKind
#TogetherBES
Winner Winner Chicken Dinner!
Expath winner for the week of February 10-14th!
Ms. Pierce's Kindergarten Class Woo Hoo!
Ms. Balliew's 2nd grade class is rocking Monday's wear Crazy Socks in honor of Dr. Seuss's classic book, Fox in Socks!
#TogetherWeRead
#TogetherGCS
#TogetherBES
Come join us TODAY, Tuesday, March 4th from 4-8 pm
for Belwood Sonic Spirit Night.
Classroom with the most check ins will win a shake or slushy party.
Plus we have an extra incentive for the winning classroom!!
March, April and May's Sonic Spirit Night winner will win a PIZZA PARTY for their entire class and thats not all....the teacher will win a $25 Amazon gift card!!!
Come out help your favorite class win these AWESOME incentives!!!
Teams from the Belwood Robotics Club recently traveled to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga to compete in the FIRST LEGO League Region Championship. All teams are led by coaches Tim Gilreath and Jessica Childers. Students who participated in this event were:
Team Abyssal Alliance: Avril Brown, Layla Hogg, Blake Hansen, Kase Gwin, Jay Timms
Team Loony Logic: Greyson Cochran, Amberlee Hall, Audrey Psaila, Kennedy Wall
Team Twilight Terrors: Audie Winslett, Victoria Hughes, Keaton Cochran
Great job students! #TogetherGCS #GordonCountySchools
Today, fifth grade teacher Mrs. Montelongo, along with co-teacher Ms. Hannah Stewart, took advantage of the glorious weather and turned it into an engaging teaching opportunity!
Ms. Monty's class is studying plant classification and learning about vascular and non-vascular plants.
She wanted students to see the different species in the real world to form better connections to the content for a more authentic learning experience!
They got to take pictures of the different plants they saw on their iPads and write about whether or not they were vascular and non-vascular. Students then had to justify their reasoning based on what they have learned so far. They were allowed to use their science journals and notes to help with the assignment!
This is just one example of all the wonderful learning that takes place at Belwood each and every day:)
#TogetherBES
#TogetherGCS
#TogetherWeLearn
YEARBOOKS on sale now!
$30.00
Order before spring break for a guaranteed yearbook.
After that it will be first come first serve on any extras we may have!
Use this QR code to order online, send in the form with cash or check or click on this link:
https://gordoncountyga.schoolwindow.com/estore/bes/yearbooks.html
before Friday, April 4th for a guaranteed copy of the
24-25 Belwood Elementary yearbook!
Dr. Seuss Day, also known as Read Across America Day, is celebrated on March 2nd to honor the birthday of Theodor Seuss Geisel, the beloved children's author.
The day is meant to promote a love of reading, especially in children.
Dr. Seuss dress up days next week!
Hopefully this is all stuff you already have at home:)
Monday 3-3-25:
Wear your Crazy Socks
Tuesday 3-4-25:
“Let me Hear You Roar!”
Wear Class T-shirt or dinosaur shirt
Wednesday 3-5-25:
Wear Green!
Thursday 3-6-25:
Wear Your Pajamas
Friday 3-7-25:
Wear a Wacky Hat!
Today, Saturday, February 15, we celebrate National School Resource Officer Appreciation Day,
and we couldn’t wait to start saying THANK YOU to our incredible SROs 👏
At Belwood Elementary School, we are blessed to have Officers from Gordon County Sheriff's Department as our dedicated resource officers.
We want to take this opportunity to thank them for their unwavering commitment to our school and let them know that Belwood Elementary appreciates our beloved SRO's EVERY day!!
Each day of the week these dedicated officers work to keep our schools safe, build positive relationships with students and staff, and support a welcoming learning environment.
Their hard work and commitment makes a real difference in our school and in our community!
#TogetherGCS
#TogetherWeHONOROurSRO'S
Dear Belwood families:
You have homework over Winter Break.
Yes, you read that correctly 😂😂!!!
Next week is National Random Acts of Kindness Day (Monday, February 17th).
Belwood is going to create a Kindness Tree in order to promote school wide kindness.
Please be on the lookout for a paper ladybug to come home with your student tomorrow. When he/she demonstrates a random act of kindness, please record it on the ladybug and return it to school to be added to our kindness tree. If you are able, please take a picture also and email to
belwoodphotos@gmail.com
This does not have to stop after the break.
Please continue to demonstrate, encourage and record acts of kindness within your family and community.
And remember, one of the most important characteristics of a kind person is that when they do something for someone, they don't expect anything in return.
Please don't underestimate the power kindness has, as one good deed can ripple out and touch the lives of many.
#TogetherGCS
#KindnessMattersAtBES
Winter Break will be all next week!
No school.
Monday, February 17th - Friday, February 21st.
Students return Monday, February 24th!
