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The Kindergarten and Eighth Grade buddies made their annual visit to Jane and Paul's Farm on October 5.
Photo by Becky King
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It's Admissions Season!
There are lots of ways you can help us promote DCD as a wonderful place for children to learn and grow.
Welcome visitors to campus. Prospective families have already begun visiting campus, and it will be getting even busier as the admissions season really kicks into gear. Please remember to leave the admissions parking spaces open for visitors to use.
Post a sign on your lawn. Help us spread the word about our November 1 Open House. We will be giving out signs during carpool pick-up lines on Tuesday (both dismissal times). Contact Emilie Liebhoff if you would like to post a sign and neither of these times is convenient for you to pick one up.
Spread the Word. In addition to the Admissions Open House on November 1, we will be hosting two Classroom Observation days, on October 15 and November 20. Help us spread the word about these events to friends, neighbors, and colleagues. Click here for a "shareable" pdf containing live links to contact admissions and fill out the registration form on our website.
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Fourth Grade Play Kicks Off Drama Season The fourth graders kicked off the drama season with an exciting story about King Arthur. In their play, students and teachers travelled back in time to King Arthur's court in the hope of finding his famous sword Exaclibur. The fourth graders worked hard to perfect their lines and write their own songs in just fifteen days.
Photo by Hilary Rochelle
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Scrip and Amazon Smile: Two ways to give to DCD while you shop!
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.
AmazonSmile is a simple and automatic way for you to support DCD every time you shop, at no cost to you. When you shop at smile.amazon.com, you'll find the exact same low prices, vast selection, and convenient shopping experience as you do on Amazon.com, with the added bonus that the AmazonSmile Foundation will donate 0.5% of the purchase price from your eligible AmazonSmile purchases to DCD.
Click here for more information about how to sign up for these programs on our website.
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Don't Forget to RSVP to the Annual Meeting
Everyone is invited to the annual community gathering of current and former DCD parents, trustees, faculty, staff, and friends, to be held in the Rand Gymnasium on Thursday evening, October 22. Traditionally a highlight of the school's fall calendar, the meeting will provide updates on the current state of DCD and review its plans for the future. Please contact Danise Cavallaro in the Development Office to confirm your attendance by October 16.
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November 7th Planning "Retreat" Postponed until Spring
The previously announced community meeting open to parents, alumni, and teachers scheduled for the morning of Saturday, November 7, has been postponed until later in the year. The new date will be announced well in advance after the Strategic Planning Steering Committee has an opportunity to work with our consultant, Dr. Robert Evans, and our incoming Head of School, Allison Webster, to identify a mutually convenient time for gathering input from all DCD constituencies. Further information and details will be provided at the October 22nd Annual Meeting.
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Culture Club Begins Next Week
Culture Club, a group for Lower School children of color in Grades 1 through 5, will hold its first meeting of the year on Wednesday, October 14, from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. The mission of the group is to create a comfortable place where children can feel free to talk about their experiences, nurture self-esteem, appreciate differences, and celebrate similarities. Age-appropriate games and activities are integral to each meeting. Children from the following racial/ethnic groups are invited to attend: African American, Latino/Hispanic American, Asian American/South Asian, Native American, Middle Eastern American, or Multiracial American. Please contact Lynne Mayard at lmayard@dcds.net to sign up or request further information.
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Be a Volunteer
It's not too late to sign up to be a volunteer. Click here to fill out the volunteer sign up form online.
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Monday, October 12
No School: Columbus Day
Tuesday, October 13
Day 4Community Outreach Meeting 8:15 a.m. Lawrence Room alcove Lower School Math Club 3:00 p.m. Wednesday, October 14Day 5Middle School Math Club 7:30 a.m. Culture Club 3:00 p.m. Thursday, October 15Day 6Grade 8 Parent Meeting 8:00 a.m. Valentine Center Morning Assembly: Grade 6 Science Collection 8:15 a.m. Lowell Center Admissions Open House: Classroom Observation 8:30-10:30 a.m. Current and Past Trustee Dinner 6:00 p.m. Friday, October 16Day 1No School for Primary and Lower School students only Primary and Lower School Parent Conferences all day Middle School Parent Conferences 1:00-5:00 p.m. Extended Day for Middle School students only Grade 6 Class Dinner 7:00 p.m. Herrick House Click here to view the entire calendar |
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Read On! The Library Blog
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...Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and, burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge.
-Lewis Carroll
 I felt just like Alice this week, burning with curiosity, as I fell down the rabbit hole and attended events celebrating the 150 anniversary of the publication of Lewis Carroll's masterpiece, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
There is a small exhibit at Butler Library at Columbia University in their rare book room that celebrates the 1932 visit of Alice Pleasance (Liddell) Hargreaves to New York City. Alice was the author's child friend who inspired the creation of the story. Charles Dodgson, whose pen name was Lewis Carroll, began the tale when he and a friend, Reverend Robinson Duckworth, took Alice and her two sisters out for an afternoon of rowing and sharing a picnic. Alice's 1932 visit was part of a celebration of the 100th anniversary of Dodgson's birth. The Columbia exhibit commemorates the degree given to Alice:
the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters, honoris causa, in recognition of the place which your name occupies in English literature and of the remarkable contributions to that literature by Lewis Carroll to which your personality gave rise. -Dr. Murray Butler, President of Columbia
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A Conversation on Girls and Stress
The first in a series of forums at Dana Hall School designed to examine topics of particular relevance to girls and girls education will focus on adolescent girls and stress.
Thursday, November 12, 7-8:30 p.m.
Dana Hall School campus, 45 Dana Road, Wellesley
While girls are aspiring to even more ambitious academic goals than ever, they also report higher levels of stress and a stronger reaction to stress than their male counterparts. In a panel discussion moderated by Dana Hall Head of School Caroline Erisman, a group of educators, scientists, and clinicians will share recent research findings, as well as discuss and share practical strategies to help parents, teachers, and students devise methods to perform well in the classroom, while also mitigating stress.
Panelists:
Dr. Rob Evans, Executive Director of The Human Relations Service
Dr. Belle Liang, Associate Professor of Counseling, and Developmental and Educational Psychology in the Lynch School of Education at Boston College
Dr. Layli Maparyan, Executive Director, Wellesley Centers for Women
For more information and to register:
www.danahall.org/theforum15
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Parent Talk Looking for Donations
Parent Talk's Used Clothing, Toy and Equipment Sale will be held Saturday, October 17, at Christ Episcopal Church, 1132 Highland Avenue, Needham (across from the Needham Library). The sale will feature clothes, baby gear, sports equipment, toys, books, maternity clothes, and more! General sale runs from 8:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. The famous bargain bag sale begins at noon. Stuff a brown paper bag with anything that fits for just $10. Donations of gently used kids items (0-8) and maternity clothes are being accepted NOW. If you are interested in donating, consigning, or volunteering, please email clothingsale@parenttalk.info or visit www.parenttalk.info/community/used-clothing-toy-sale.php for more information.
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