• Monday, October 27th: 9:30am - 1:30pm 3rd Grade Field Trip to Anderson Farms

• Monday, October 28th: 9:30am - 1:30pm ECE Field Trip to Hudson Gardens

• Tuesday, October 29th: 5:15pm - 6:15pm 4th/5th Flag Football vs. Lowry @ Lowry

• Thursday, October 30th: 10:30am - 11:00am: Golden Eagle Awards Assembly Celebrating "Kindness" Golden Eagle Award Winners from October

  • Details below, but please note all parents/guardians of Golden Eagle Award winners from October are invited

• Thursday, October 30th: 11:00am - 12:00pm 4th/5th Pumpkin Patch

• Thursday, October 30th: 2:30pm - 3:30pm Classroom Halloween Parties

  • 3:30pm - 3:50pm School Wide Halloween Costume Parade on the playground!

• Thursday, October 30th: 4:30pm - 5:30pm 4th/5th Soccer vs. Slavens @ DM

• Friday, October 31st: No School for All DPS Students

• Monday, November 3rd: No School for Dora Moore students

If your student brought home a Golden Eagle Award and bracelet in October, they have been nominated by their teacher for demonstrating and living out our school’s core value of Kindness. Hopefully your student excitedly brought home their swag--We are so proud of them!

We are committed to increasing our family partnerships this year, and celebrating our students with you is an important aspect of this partnership. We will send individual emails as well, but you are invited to celebrate your child during our monthly Golden Eagle Award and Student Celebration Assembly on Thursday, October 30th from 10:30am - 11:00am. This assembly is a short, public way to recognize each award winning student for the month, and encourage all students to continue to live out our core values of Community, Kindness, Curiosity, and Excellence each day. Our hope and goal is for all students to earn this recognition through their consistent effort and hard work.

Hopefully you can join us!

On October 30th, students are encouraged to wear a costume to school. Yeah--It's one day a year so let's enjoy it! (Also, it makes it much easier on our staff to not have to facilitate students changing into costumes at the end of the year.) A few rules and expectations for costumes:
No weapons (knives, guns, etc)

• Nothing gorey and gross (we have littles and many costumes are too scary for school)

• Masks can be brought and worn for the parade, but students will be asked to remove the mask during class.

• School dress code applies.

Most classrooms will have a Halloween Party at from 2:30pm - 3:30pm--Check with your homeroom teacher for specifics. Then, we will have a school-wide Halloween Costume Parade from 3:30pm - 3:50pm out on the playground. Families are encouraged to join us outside on the playground to celebrate and see all the costumes. Students will return into the building via the parade and be dismissed at their normal spot using our normal procedures.

Background: After Congress failed to pass a budget for Fiscal Year 2026 by the September 30 deadline, the federal government officially shut down on October 1, 2025. The shutdown will continue until Congress passes and the President signs funding legislation. For more on how we got here, check out this story from CPR. (Hunger Free Colorado)

Impact:

1. School Meals: Breakfast and lunch will continue to be free for all Colorado public school students.

2. SNAP Benefits Delay: If the shutdown continues, food programs will likely face disruptions in November. This means November SNAP benefits are currently on hold.

3. Meal Support: If you are going to be effected by the delay in meal benefits for November and you would like support, we can help! We are planning on extending our school store hours as well as coordinating deliveries for those experiencing a transportation barrier.

   1. Fill out this confidential form: https://forms.gle/FWWcrYtvmT11TmBV7

Opportunities to Support:

1. Donations of Support: If you have resources that you would like to donate to the Dora Moore Exchange Store/Food Pantry or the Dora Moore PTSA to go to helping families in the Dora Moore community impacted by the delay in meal benefits, drop them off in the main office this week.

   1. Fill out this form to help inform our planning: https://forms.gle/FWWcrYtvmT11TmBV7

      1. Non-Perishable Goods Needed:

         1. Canned vegetables

         2. Canned fruits

         3. Peanut butter

         4. Hot or cold cereal

         5. Cooking oil

         6. Canned chicken/tuna

         7. Cereal/granola bars/crackers

         8. Coffee

      2. Grocery Gift Cards:

         1. King Soopers

         2. Safeway

      3. Cash/Check for bulk purchasing

Other Community Resources:

1. 📞 Colorado 211: Call 2-1-1 or (866) 760-6489, or visit www.211colorado.org

2. 🥕 Feeding Colorado: Visit feedingcolorado.org/find-food or email info@feedingcolorado.org.

3. 🍏 Hunger Free Colorado Food Resource Hotline: (855) 855-4626

For more information regarding meal benefits during these political times, check out this resource from Hunger Free Colorado.

If you have questions, concerns, or other ideas--email doramooreptsa@gmail.com, abram_janson@dpsk12.net, and joshua_konz@dpsk12.net.

Goosetown Tavern on Colfax is hosting our next Dine Out for Dora Moore. And the greatest part? No special code! 10% of all sales for the entire night go back to Dora Moore.

Dora Moore's Winter Enrichment Catalog Page: https://dps.arux.app/courses/category/17/school-year-enrichments/dora-moore

Enrichment programs are a fantastic way for students to explore their interests and develop new skills through focused, single-subject activities. Offered by trusted DPS Community Partners, these programs provide exciting elective options at over 32 schools across the District. Enrichment activities run during the first hour after school, seamlessly complementing Discovery Link programming. Students can participate in both Enrichment and Discovery Link on the same day by registering for both programs!\

These enrichments are fee-based.

If your student qualifies for Free and/or Reduced Lunch and are interested in Enrichment programs please complete the scholarship interest form.  Do NOT register for a program you have submitted the interest form for.  Scholarship Interest Form linked here.

Please note if a program does not meet the minimum number of students as stated by the community partner offering the program, the class will be canceled. 

Enrichment offerings are not a DPS program, activity or service. All are run by businesses

The deadline to withdraw from the winter session is Monday, November 25th by emailing us at enrichment_extendedlearning@dpsk12.org.