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All the 3rd, 4th and 5th grade students at Belgrade Central School have been reading like crazy and have completed the new and improved Black Bear Book Award Program for the year. They blew their goal of collectively reading 350 books out of the water and finished super strong with 481 books read! The lucky… Read More
The wellness initiative is happily spreading to our students! In response to the district’s Lifestyles Challenge and wellness passport, BCS 5th grade teacher Kristen Pietri decided it would be good for her students to have something similar to work on over April vacation. She got permission from the district Lifestyles team to modify the staff… Read More
Mrs. Daniels and Mrs. Bailey loved planning for and spending the day with Maine author and illustrator Kevin Hawkes. All PK-2 students at the Belgrade Central School had a blast. This visit was made possible by funding from the Stevens Fund and we are so grateful. The day was full of drawing, storytelling, pink bunny… Read More
Written By BCS Second Graders, Mrs. Dunbar & Miss Zemrak’s classes We, the second-grade students at Belgrade Central School, have published nonfiction books about the solar system. We were not born as nonfiction authors—we had to first become experts on our topic. The first step we took was to read as many nonfiction books about the… Read More
By Emmy Dunbar 4th Grade Belgrade Central School One of our favorite weeks of the school year has come to an end. March 4th- March 8th was Missoula week at Belgrade Central School. The set is now packed up and Justin and Daniel have hit the road and are heading to a school in New… Read More
When fourth-grade teacher Shawna Lachance sat down in her classroom library with her students at Belgrade Central School earlier this fall, she told them they had an important mission to accomplish. She told them it was meaningful work that no other group of elementary school students had ever done before! Some students sat up… Read More
Missoula Children’s Theatre, the nation’s largest touring children’s theatre, comes back to Belgrade Central School this week. This year we will journey with fun-loving Hobgoblins to the “land of colored ice” as they tell the tale of a young girl and her quest to find her best friend. You may find yourself believing in malevolent… Read More
The 2019 Global School Play Day (GSPD) was a terrific success with 545,690 participants around the world! Even though icy conditions made playing outside impossible, the students at Belgrade Central School had an amazing day on February 6th as they participated in GSPD for the first time. BCS also invited parents to attend, and over… Read More
The fourth graders at Belgrade Central School in Mrs. Holinger and Mrs. Lachance’s classrooms have been busy writing realistic fiction stories for the past 6 weeks. They have been working their way through the Lucy Calkins Units of Study Narrative Unit. Student authors started by imagining stories that they wish existed in the world, then… Read More
The Black Bear Book Award Program has started at Belgrade Central School and things are a little different this year. Your friendly BCS librarians’ goal is to offer a more inclusive program and encourage a school-wide culture of reading. We have the same stellar list of 50 new titles (give or take) ranging from graphic… Read More