Fourth Grade Play
 Fourth Graders entertained the school this week with their comical play about five vegetarian dragons who want to learn how to become more ferocious. The large class of 32 students filled the Lowell Center with their charismatic performances.
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Students to Make Cards for Veterans at Trim the GymDuring this year's Trim the Gym celebration on Thursday, December 18, from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m., students will have the opportunity to donate $1.00 and make cards to send to patients of the Veteran's Hospital Boston West Roxbury Campus, many of whom are being treated within the facility's Spinal Cord Injury program. We are proud to have our students support our nation's heroes at the holidays!
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Eighth Graders' Holiday Bake Sale
DCD's Eighth Grade will be holding their annual Holiday Bake Sale on Friday, December 19, from 8:00 to 9:00 a.m., and then again briefly following the Holiday Assembly. The bake sale table will be set up in the front lobby. Students will be selling delicious cakes, cookies, coffee cakes, pies, and more to raise money for their Eighth Grade Class Gift. Come and support our Eighth Graders while picking up something special to serve your family.
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Check Us Out on Instagram!
Click here to view recent pictures and videos , including the performance by the Middle School chamber ensemble at the Dedham Savings Bank on Wednesday, December 10.
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ShopWithScrip and Give Back to DCD!
Are gift cards on your holiday shopping list? Then get started with Scrip and give back to DCD with every gift-card purchase!
Scrip are gift cards, including e-cards, to major stores that give a rebate from each gift card purchase back to DCD. With cards from more than 300 of the country's biggest brands, including Gap, Shaw's, Home Depot, and Whole Foods, you can shop at your favorite stores, and DCD earns money with each purchase. See our Web site for detailed instructions on how to register. It's easy, and it's free. There are two ways to pay for your order. After ordering your gift card online at www.shopwithscrip.com, simply write a check to DCD for the total amount of your gift card purchases, or if you prefer, we can bill your student account. Gift cards will be distributed within a week. Contact Danise Cavallaro for more information.
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 Construction Zone Ahead!
December means it's time for Middle School mini-term, which has DCD Eighth Graders busily at work building complex machines in science class. With schematics in hand and a host of tools and materials at their disposal, students have been constructing, testing, and collaborating with classmates to complete their projects, the capstone of the Eighth Grade mini-term science unit. Click here to view more pictures. |
 It's Puppet Time in Pre-K
After being treated to a funny and entertaining puppet show last week, Pre-Kindergartners started making their own puppets. Each child spun a large globe, stopping it with a finger to determine the puppet's country of origin.
Then the mess began as the children created the heads of the puppets using a balloon and some plaster-infused mesh material. The next step will be to mix paints to represent the skin tone for the puppet head using shades of brown, black, white, and yellow. |
Monday, December 15
Day 1
Morning Assembly: Holiday Story with Librarian Marge Farquharson
8:15 a.m. Lowell Center
Tuesday, December 16
Day 2
Lower School Math Club
3:00 p.m.
Wednesday, December 17 Day 3
Middle School Math Club
7:30 a.m.
Thursday, December 18
Day 4
Trim the Gym
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Dismissal
3:00 p.m.
Friday, December 19
Holiday Assembly
9:00 a.m. Rand Gym
Dismissal
10:30 a.m.
No Extended Day
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Behind the scenes, Fourth Grade teacher Kelly Kennedy organizes props for the class play about dragons with limited taste buds.
photo by Elisa Sidoli
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Tonight...Dedham Choral Society Presents A Gaelic Christmas
Save the date for a special holiday concert of classical music from Ireland and Scotland performed by the Dedham Choral Society on Friday, December 12, at 8:00 p.m. at Holy Name Church in West Roxbury. Tickets are $25, $20 for students and seniors (and $5 for children ages 5-12 at the door only). You can purchase tickets by contacting Elizabeth Pyle Handler '79 at 781-449-5247. For more information, check out the Choral Society's new website at http://www.dedhamchoral.org.
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There have been many memorable holiday books published in 2014. There are often new titles by celebrated authors like Eric Kimmel (Simon and the Bear: A Hanukkah Tale, Hyperion, 2014) and Jan Brett (The Animals' Santa, Putnam, 2014). It's always a pleasure to discover titles that are new gems and revisit some stories that are old favorites.
O. Henry's short story, "The Gift of the Magi," was first published in The New York Sunday World on December 10, 1905. It has now become a classic tale of a young couple that secretly sell their most treasured possessions in order to purchase a holiday gift for each other. Jim sells his grandfather's pocket watch to buy a set of jeweled combs for Della's waist length hair. On the same day, Della cut and sold her hair to purchase a platinum fob chain for Jim's prized watch.
 Dara Goldman brings this story to children with her picture book, Boris and Stella and the Perfect Gift (Sleeping Bears Press, 2013). Boris and Stella are bears who feel blessed to have found each other. The picture book depicts a year when the last night of Hanukkah happens to be on Christmas Eve. ...  This year is the 50th anniversary of the television Christmas special, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. There is a "Deluxe Anniversary Edition" of Rudolph that is based on the show. Robert Lewis May wrote the original Rudolph story about growing up being different.
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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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