Play Season Begins
DCD celebrated the start of the drama season with the Third Grade play. Students told the story of witches and their cats who try and take over the King and Queen's kingdom. The students learned many lines, songs, and dances and shared their wonderful acting skills with the school community. |
Gift Wrap Fundraiser Wraps Up! 
DCD's annual gift wrap fundraiser wraps up next week. This weekend is your final chance to share the catalog with family, friends, and neighbors! All orders and checks must be brought in on Tuesday, October 14, our next day back at school, and placed in the mailbox in the front office. Out-of-town relatives and friends can place their order online at innisbrook.com, using our school number, 101457, and designating the student who should receive credit. If you have questions about ordering, contact 877-525-5608, or customerservice@innisbrook.com.
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Culture Club Begins Next Week
Culture Club, an after-school group for Lower School (Grades 1-5) students of color, will hold its first meeting of the school year next week on Wednesday, October 15, from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. If you think your child might be interested in joining and you haven't already done so, please contact Lynne Mayard at lmayard@dcds.net to let her know if your child plans to attend. Click here to view pictures from past activities and to learn more about the group's mission.
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Help Us Promote Our Open Houses
The Admissions Office is hosting three open house events this fall on October 19, November 6, and November 21. Click here for the electronic version of the flyer to share with friends, neighbors or colleagues via email or Facebook. Hard copies of the flyer to post in locations around your town or postcards you can mail to friends are available in the front lobby or in the Admissions Office. We are also looking for families to post lawn signs announcing the open house dates. Please contact Deb White in Admissions if you can help us promote these upcoming events.
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Volunteers Needed! Save the Date for Spooktacular Fun! 
DCD's Spooktacular Halloween Party is Saturday, October 25, from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. Students in Pre-K through Grade 5 are invited to park their brooms and head to the Primary "Goo" Gym. The cost is $5 per child, $20 max per family. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Please Sign Up to Help! Please click on the following link to sign up online to volunteer: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080a4aafaa22a57-dcdhalloween
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Picture Retakes
Picture retakes will be held on Tuesday, October 28, rain or shine. Please return the entire, undamaged portrait package to Ms. Laneau before Friday, October 24. You may keep the class photo. Retake packages will be distributed approximately three to five weeks after the retake.
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Two New Ways of Supporting DCD...While You Shop!
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.
Coming Soon...Shop with Scrip It's so easy, just purchase a gift card to one of many popular stores and DCD will receive from 2% to 16% back. This holiday season, give to your friends and to DCD at the same time!
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Parents, Your Family Registration Form, Please!
Please, if you haven't already done so, fill out and return your family registration form as soon as possible. We refer to the forms when sending invitations to Grandparents' and Special Friends' Day at DCD. You can fill it out online and return the completed form by e-mail to Danise Cavallaro or fill it out by hand and mail it to her attention at DCD.
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Monday, October 13
No School: Columbus Day
Tuesday, October 14
Day 4
Gift Wrap Orders Due
Kindergarten Begins Full Days
Community Outreach Meeting
8:15-9:15 a.m. Lawrence Room Alcove
EDP After-school Tennis Lessons
3:15-4:15 p.m. Primary Gym
Wednesday, October 15 Day 5
Middle School Math Club
7:30 a.m.
Culture Club
3:00-4:30 p.m.
Thursday, October 16
Day 6
Grade 2 to Council on Aging
10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Chess Wizards
3:20-4:20 p.m. Room 314
Friday, October 17
Day 1
No School: Pre-K through Grade 5 only
Pre-K through Grade 5 Parent Conferences
7:45 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Middle School SSAT Prep
12:30-2:30 p.m.
Middle School Parent Conference
1:00-4:00 p.m.
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 Maintenance guru Fred McPhee helps Kindergarten students fill containers of water for planting mums outside their classroom.
Photo by Mary Ellen Maloney
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Kids' Yogathon
Hilary Glynn is organizing a team for the Yoga Reaches Out Kids' Yogathon on November 9 to benefit Camp Starfish, a residential camp program providing a 1:1 staff-to-camper ratio for children with emotional, behavioral, and learning disabilities. Please call her at 617-699-3724 or email her at hilglynn@aol.com to get more information.
Piano Teacher Valerie Snow Featured in the Boston Globe
Valerie Snow, who teaches piano in DCD's Private Music Program, was quoted in a Boston Globe article about the Boston Conservatory's program for students on the autism spectrum. Click here to read the story.
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Picture book biographies for children have become works of art in recent years. It's not just younger children who enjoy them. Because of their content, students in the middle school also find them entertaining and valuable for research. Talented authors and illustrators bring the stories of historical and contemporary people to life in engaging text and art.
Most adults and children give little thought to the origins of the dictionary and thesaurus. After reading about Noah Webster and Peter Roget, we not only learn about their famous works, but we find that they were pretty interesting characters. These two contemporaries each had a passion for language and a dream.
Noah Webster & His Words by Jeri Chase Ferris, illustrated by Vincent X. Kirsch (Houghton Mifflin, 2012) chronicles his life and cleverly includes the definition to words in the text.
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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