Belwood Elementary School

Belwood Elementary 5th grade teacher Katherine Montelongo worked with her students today on understanding the "central idea" when reading. Students were also working hard to stay organized with their ELA notebooks! #TogetherWeLearn #TogetherBES #TogetherGCS

DON'T FORGET PAJAMA DAY IS THIS FRIDAY, AUGUST 30TH. Send $1.00 with your student and he/she can wear pajamas and a hat all day long. The money raised goes towards paying for school wide incentives. #TogetherBES #TogetherGCS #GordonCountySchools #belwoodfamily

BOOK FAIR IS COMING TO BELWOOD TUESDAY, SEPT. 3rd through FRIDAY, SEPT. 6th If you would rather send money digitally, you can click on this link to something called KidCredit (was called E Wallet last year). You can choose to get a refund of any unspent money or you can donate to Belwood's media center. https://kidcredit.bedfordfallsusa.com/kidCredit.php?fairID=16792

Book Fair Happening Next week! Look at the choices you will have:) https://bedfordfallsusa.com/featured-flyer/?product-page=1 https://bedfordfallsusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/SF-FrontBack-No-Bleed-RGB-combined-compressed.pdf

IMPORTANT DATES FRIDAY, AUGUST 30TH - $1.00 DONATION TO WEAR PJ’S OR HAT! GRANDPARENT’S WEEK TUES. SEPT. 3RD THROUGH FRI. SEPT. 6TH Each grade level has a special day for grandparents to eat lunch and visit the book fair. Teachers will share the day and lunch time with you. Tues. Sept. 3: Kindergarten and 5th​ Wed. Sept. 4: 1st, PreK, PAL, and 1st​ Thursday, Sept. 5: 2nd and 4th ​ Friday, Sept. 6: 3rd grade

Emiliano and Sebastian Gurrola went to Gatlinburg Tennessee during their summer vacation! As you can see, they had a fabulous time TOGETHER! #TogetherBES #TogetherGCS #GordonCountySchools #belwoodfamily

Belwood’s Student Leadership team received a very important civic lesson yesterday when Detective Fox of the Gordon County Sheriff’s Dept. demonstrated proper flag folding, carrying and flying protocol, along with a few history lessons and some fun facts ❤️ The students were able to ask questions, practice and then demonstrate their newly acquired skills! Thank you Detective Fox for going above and beyond the call of duty! TOGETHER we excel! #belwoodfamily #TogetherBES #TogetherGCS

Students in Ms. Bailie Greeson's music class read the book We Will Rock Our Classmates and talked about talents they each had. Everyone is good at something. Each student then created a picture based on their talents. Look at these amazing creations! Belwood certainly has talented teachers and students! #belwoodfamily #TogetherBES #TogetherGCS #GordonCountySchools

Belwood's Spirit Committee "kicked off" our year with a tailgate party Friday. Everyone loved getting TOGETHER to enjoy lots and lots and lots of delicious food! Thank you Kindergarten for planning the event! #belwoodfamily #TogetherBES #TogetherGCS #GordonCountySchools

Most parents know about the importance of play for their children to develop essential life skills. But did you know about the importance of play for grown-ups, too? Playing improves your relationships. Laughing and having fun with others can foster empathy, compassion, trust and even relieves stress, all at the same time! So Belwood family, grab your kids and everyone else you can find and go outside and have some fun, like these ladies! Be like Lisa and Donna, who clearly know what is good for them:) TOGETHER we can stay healthy, mentally and physically! #TogetherBES #TogetherGCS #GordonCountySchools #belwoodfamily

Ms. Stephania Hyde's first grade classroom is having fun AND learning all at the same time! Using counters to create combinations of ten allows kids to discover those combinations on their own in a fun and exciting way. And the systematic and explicit teaching of phonics ensures that every student is learning essential skills to develop advanced readers:) #belwoodfamily #TogetherBES #TogetherGCS #GordonCountySchools

Hey Belwood Family! Our fabulous faculty worked extra hard to decorate their classroom doors and we need your help! Please click on both links and choose your favorite door for grades PreK - 2nd and 3rd through 5th. The winning classroom (one for lower grades and one for upper grades) will receive a pizza party. Voting ends this afternoon! The winners will be announced during Monday morning announcements on August 26th. One vote for each allowed but feel free to share the links with friends and family! Lower grades PreK - 2nd: https://forms.gle/DhFFCuxKVPZuctWdA Upper grades 3rd - 5th: https://forms.gle/nMetNDYWdaRbTaJN8 Lower grades PreK - 2nd: https://forms.gle/DhFFCuxKVPZuctWdA Upper grades 3rd - 5th: https://forms.gle/nMetNDYWdaRbTaJN8

Good morning Belwood family! We realize that some families were not able to order the class t-shirt by today's deadline, so we have extended it through next Friday, August 30th. We want to make sure you have a chance to order since the shirts will be worn on spirit days, field trips, and all other events. Here is the link to order online: https://gordoncountyga.schoolwindow.com/estore/bes/spirit-wear.html?view=list There is also a QR code available in the pictures and you can always send the money in a labeled envelop or zip lock bag next week.

Thank you to the Gordon Central volleyball team for greeting students at Belwood's morning car drop-off line! It's always great to show school spirit and great attitudes to start the day off right at BES. Team members were also at W.L. Swain and Tolbert Elementary. #TogetherGCS

Some fun community events planned for Calhoun.

Reading is FUN, especially when you can chill with your friends while doing it:) #TogetherBES #TogetherGCS #GordonCountySchools #belwoodfamily

Belwood Elementary students were labeling parts of a plant today in Macy King's STEAM class! STEAM stands for science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics. Students get to learn and do many fun things in this class! #TogetherBES #TogetherGCS #GordonCountySchools

Belwood is blessed to have local high schools who value making connections with our students. Thank you GC softball players for giving up your morning to make ours special. #TogetherBES #TogetherGCS #GordonCountySchools #belwoodfamily

Core Essentials note for home:

A HUGE shout out to Crossfire Church in Adairsville for their generous donation of school supplies recently. Ms. Patterson was kind enough to deliver to us and the supplies have already been put to good use by helping to improve student learning. There is nothing more motiving for kids than having new school supplies (except maybe an extra recess)! Thank you again for providing for your community and for meeting the needs of Belwood students! We love our Community Outreach Partners! #BelwoodFamily #BuildingExceptionalStudents #TogetherBES #GordonCountySchools #TogetherGCS