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 Ready for Field Hockey Season
Photo by Stephen Cochran '80
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Calling All Eighth Grade Parents!
The 8th Grade Gift Meeting is this
Monday, October 16,
at
8:15 a.m.
in the Lawrence Room. This is an opportunity to learn more about the parent gift to honor the class of 2018. To RSVP, please email Eliza Quincy at
[email protected]
. We look forward to seeing you
on Monday
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Culture Club
The first meeting of DCD's Culture Club will take place next
Wednesday, October 18, at 3:00 p.m. Contact Lynne Mayard,
[email protected], for information about signing up your child.
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Handbooks Are Out
The DCD Handbook of Information has been mailed to families. A
ny changes or corrections to your personal contact information should be sent to
Laura Martinez in the front office who will make sure the various databases on campus are updated. Parents will not be able to update their their own information online until next year. Notifications of changes to contact information will be sent out periodically so that parents may update their handbooks.
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Time to Sign Up for Parent Conferences
Conferences are around the corner! You should have received the Sign Up Genius link to select a conference time. If you have not selected a time for your child's conference, please do so as soon as possible. If you have not received the sign up link, please contact the division heads directly.
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A Spooktacular Parent Volunteer Opportunity!
The DCD Annual Halloween Festival Planning Committee is in need of parent volunteers to help with this upcoming event on
Saturday, October 28, 3:00-5:00 p.m
.
Go to Sign-up Genius
http://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0f4fa8a82ea0f58-2017
to select one of the freakishly fun crafts or games to help with. All supplies will be available the day of the event so you just need to show up ready for a wicked good time. We hope you can "carve" out some time to join us!
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Picture Retakes
Picture retake day is
October 30. Children who are having their pictures retaken should bring their individual pictures with them on retake day to hand to the photographer. Families may keep the class photo.
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Are you interested in working with your children on community service?
In the coming months we will be gathering candy for our troops overseas, assembling Thanksgiving baskets for low-income families served by the Dedham Youth Commission, and preparing for a school-wide Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. day of service in January. Interested in participating in one or more of these activities? Please contact: Melissa at
[email protected]
or Deb at
[email protected].
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Experience DCD's Middle School
On
Tuesday, October 17
, DCD's middle school invites lower school parents to come experience classes "in action."
The schedule for the morning is as follows:
8:30 - 9:45 a.m.
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Classroom visits in grades 6-8. There will be five minutes of travel time for students at 8:55 a.m. to transition to period 2.
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9:45 - 10:00 a.m.
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During recess, we invite you to hear from a few students during a Q&A session in room 263.
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10:05 - 10:30 a.m.
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Opportunity to visit one of nine middle school arts classes
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Please feel free to visit for a short while or for the duration.
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 Off and Running
It was a beautiful fall afternoon for the 10th Annual Larz Anderson Invitational Cross Country Meet hosted by the Park School on Thursday, October 12th. DCD's cross country team was well represented at this middle school running extravaganza! Girls and boys teams from 15 area schools totaling 270 runners competed in the race. Read more... |
 Math and Munch During Lunch
"How cool is it that kids will choose to give up recess to do math"? gushed Annette Raphel recently after meeting with third graders during her recent Tuesday Math Lunch. Demand for this new lower school lunch activity has been exciting! Each Tuesday, the room fills up as children file in with their lunches in hand to engage in some math calisthenics. Read on... |
Monday, October 16
Day 3
Morning Assembly: Digital Citizenship
8:15 a.m. Lowell Center
Grade 8 Parent Gift Meeting
8:15 a.m.
SSAT Prep
2:30-4:30 p.m.
Tuesday, October 17
Day 4
Middle School Classroom Observation for Current Lower School Parents
8:30-10:30 a.m.
Middle School Parent-to-Parent Meeting
7:00 p.m. Herrick House
Wednesday, October 18
Day 5
Middle School Math Club
7:30-8:00 a.m.
Grade 2 to Plimouth Plantation
8:30 a.m.
Culture Club
3:00 p.m.
Thursday, October 19
Day 6
Grade 4 Play
8:30 a.m. Lowell Center
Spirit Day with Charles River School
3:15-5:15 p.m.
Annual Meeting
6:00-8:30 p.m. Rand Gym
Friday, October 20
Day 1
Grade 4 Play and Cast Party
8:30 a.m. Lowell Center
Grade 1 Class Dinner
7:00 p.m. Herrick House
Saturday, October 21
Grade 7 Class Dinner
7:00 p.m. Herrick House
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 Celery + sun butter + dried cranberries =
a fun and healthy lunch
Lower school student Avery Peterson got creative with his lunch last week. It almost looks like he's building a math equation!
Besides the main lunch entree served at the tables, students can choose from among many items offered at the alternative window, cereal bar, and salad bar. Daily salad bar offerings typically include lettuce, carrots, cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, cottage cheese, yogurt, tuna or seafood salad, egg salad, mozzarella cheese, craisins, croutons, sunflower seeds, and dressings as well as sun butter as a peanut butter alternative.
Click here to view next week's lunch menu.
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It took more than three thousand years to make some of the trees in these Western woods - God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches...hut he cannot save them from fools - only Uncle Sam can do that!
John Muir, 1901
 Years ago, I took my children to Muir Woods to see the colossal redwoods. I was reminded of that visit when I read
The Camping Trip That Changed America: Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir, and Our National Parks by Barb Rosenstock, illustrated by Mordicai Gerstein (Dial).
In 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt wrote a letter to John Muir, a world-renown naturalist. He wanted Muir to take him on a camping trip. Roosevelt wrote "I do not want anyone with me but you, and I want to drop politics absolutely for four days and just be out in the open with you." ...
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 Documentary Film Focuses on Heroin Epidemic
The screening of new documentary film exploring the heroin epidemic on Cape Cod will take place on Tuesday, October 17, at 7:00 p.m. at the Mother Brook Arts and Community Center, 123 High Street, Dedham. Admission is free. Reserve tickets at www.risedocfilms.org.
A panel discussion will follow the screening with special guest Bertha Madras of McClean Hospital and Harvard Medical School, who was recently appointed to the President's National Opioid Commission.
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