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Photo of the Week
Pre-Kindergarteners dance with balloons to the Happy Song during music class. Photo by Susan Glaser
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Gift Wrap Fundraiser 
DCD's annual gift wrap fundraiser is a great way to support our school while getting ready for the holiday gift-giving season. Be sure to check out the wide variety of wrapping papers as well as gift items.
Packets are going home on Friday, September 19, with the youngest child in each family. The fundraiser starts on Tuesday, September 23, and ends on  Tuesday, October 14.
Share the catalog with family and friends. Make checks payable to Dedham Country Day School (do not collect sales tax). You can order online at innisbrook.com. Our school is 101457. You can send emails to out-of-town supporters and designate students to receive credit. Please be sure to read the instructions that come with the catalog, and if you have questions, contact 877-525-5608, or customerservice@innisbrook.com. Happy Shopping!
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 Chess Wizards Starting Up Again
The Extended Day Program (EDP) is offering an after-school program for children in Kindergarten through Grade 5 who are interested in learning to play chess. The classes will take place from 3:20 to 4:20 p.m. on the following Thursdays: 10/9, 10/16, 10/23, 10/30, 11/6, 11/13, and 11/20. The cost is $140. Registration forms should be returned to Tom Nash or turned into Barbara in the front office. Space is limited, so sign up soon! A free introductory class for parents and children will be held on Thursday, October 2. Click here for the flyer. If you have questions, please contact EDP Director Tom Nash.
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Amazon Smile
Now you can shop and support DCD at the same time! DCD will receive a .5% donation on all eligible purchases made through Amazon Smile. Go to smile.amazon.com, sign in with your Amazon.com username and password, and enter Dedham Country Day School as your charity of choice.
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Learn to Login to the DCD Web site
On Monday, September 22, from 6:00 to 6:30 p.m., before the Primary School Back-to-School Night, parents are invited to an informal and optional session in the Adams Lab to learn how to login to DCD's new Web site.
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Saturday, September 20
Grade 1 Class Dinner
7:00 p.m. Herrick House
Monday, September 22
Day 2
Morning Assembly: Rosh Hashanah presentation
8:15-8:30 a.m. Primary School Back-to-School Night 6:30 p.m.
Tuesday, September 23
Day 3
K/Grade 8 Buddies to Jane & Paul's Farm
8:50 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Wednesday, September 24 Day 4
Thursday, September 25
No School: Rosh Hashanah
Friday, September 26
Day 5
Middle School Dance
7:00-9:30 p.m.
Saturday, September 27
Grade 2 Class Dinner
7:00 p.m. Herrick House
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Fourth Graders Present Summer Business Projects
 A group of Fourth Graders, all young, budding entrepreneurs, presented their summer business projects at Lower School Assembly on Wednesday, September 17. Their projects ranged from lemonade stands to a disco car wash. Each Fourth Grader described the business, detailing three days on the job, what was fun and challenging about the activity, and which charitable organization received the proceeds and why.
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DCD Visits the Dedham Farmers Market
 It was a beautiful afternoon at the Dedham Farmers Market on Wednesday, September 17. Not only were the locally grown vegetables and organically prepared foods bountiful, but so was the creativity over at the DCD tent!
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Eighth Grade Retreat: Connecting and Team Building
 After classes finished on the second day of school, the Class of 2015 and their advisors packed food, duffels, sleeping bags, and marshmallow sticks onto the vans and headed off to Chickatawbut Hill for an overnight retreat.
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 Studio Sale Tonight
DCD art teacher Lisa Houck invites you to a preview sale of her work on Friday, September 19, from 4:00 to 9:00 p.m., at her studio in the South End, 535 Albany Street, 4th Floor, Boston.
November Open House
On Friday, November 7, from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m., she will be participating in a fall Open House at the same location, featuring her work along with a number of other fine artists who share space in her studio building.
For examples of Lisa's new work, visit
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Our Fourth and Fifth Graders are avidly reading various books that have been nominated for this year's Massachusetts Children's Book Award (MACBA). This voluntary reading program was started by Dr. Helen Constant in 1975 and is administered through Salem State University. Twenty-five books are nominated for the award, and our voting for the DCD favorites will take place in late winter....
Adam Jay Epstein and Andrew Jacobson are two authors whom may be new to most readers, but they might soon be favorites. They have co-written The Familiars Series, and the first book in that series, The Familiars (Harper, 2010), is one of this year's nominees for the MACBA. These two friends have created a magical world that entrances many readers. Their characters, their familiars, are magical animals who are chosen by young wizards in training. However, Aldwyn isn't a magical familiar; he is an ordinary cat who has wandered into the unusual pet store. Aldwyn and the extraordinary pets must work together when their young wizards are captured by the evil queen of Vastria.
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Read On!...
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Dedham Country Day School:
Provides to each child a unique educational balance of challenging academics, arts, and athletics;
Embraces
an inclusive, interdependent community of students, teachers, and
parents that fosters trust and encourages children to take risks;
Creates
independent, resilient, lifelong learners through engaging,
developmentally-based teaching designed to meet varied learning styles;
Inspires
students to become caring, ethical members of the larger world by
emphasizing thoughtful citizenship and respect for self and others.
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