Caddie Woodlawn May Newsletter

Welcome to Caddie's monthly newsletter. We hope you enjoy our paperless format, and will continue to use the newsletter as a reference for looking up days off, quarantine guidelines, lunch menus, and much more. This newsletter will be updated throughout the month. Please feel free to let us know if there is anything else you would like to see!

• May 4- 5th Grade "Law Day" field trip to the Courthouse Museum
• May 8 - JK field trip to Memorial Park & Alex's Pizza
• May 9- JK field trip to Memorial Park & Alex's Pizza
• May 12- K thru 2nd grade to the Eau Claire Children's Theatre
• May 12- 3rd thru 5th grade Track & Field (All day event)
• May 15- Track & Field rain date
• May 17- Family Title I Event: Get the Scoop on Reading!, 3:30-4:00
• May 18- 3rd Grade Wax Museum- 2:00
• May 19- Bike Rodeo for 2nd & 3rd Grades
• May 23- 2nd Grade MN Zoo field trip
• May 24- 1st Grade Sport center/Carson Park field trip
• May 24- 2nd Grade visits the Durand Public Library
• May 24- 3rd Grade to Crystal Cave
• May 25- 4th Grade WI Logging Museum field trip
• May 25- 5th Grade Boat Float - Arkansaw Creek
• May 26- 5th Grade Graduation, 8:30am
• May 26- Last day of school

Students enjoyed an indoor picnic on a rainy day as a reward for completing the reading challenge in March! Awesome job, Caddie students!

Mrs. Rosemeyer's class helped clean up the school grounds to celebrate Earth Day!

Students are learning about polygons.

The Math Masters competition was held at St. Croix Central Middle School. The Caddie Woodlawn Mathematicians placed 5th out of the 13 teams. Congratulations!

Summer School sign up is CLOSED.

Classes will run Monday-Thursday from 8:00am-12:00pm with early bird at 7:00am.

The dates are:

July 17th-20th

July 24th-27th

July 31st-August 3rd

Students often forget to bring tennis shoes to school when they have Phy Ed. Ms. Husmoen keeps a selection of various sized shoes for students to borrow during their class time but her stock is running low. If you have tennis shoes that your kiddo has outgrown and would like to donate please send them to the Caddie Woodlawn office.

Nurse Pam is requesting both girls and boys T-shirts and pants size youth XL-adult XL.

Do you recognize these items? We always have tables full of things found out on the playground, the bus, or forgotten after breakfast. Please feel free to call the office or stop in after dismissal to take a look.

2022-2023 Meal Prices

• Breakfast 4K-12 - $1.50/meal
• Lunch 4K-5 - $2.05/meal
• Extra milk: .40

Dear Parents and Families,

We are starting something new at school to help promote social

and emotional well-being in our school environment called

PositiviTEE Day! On the first Monday of every month, we welcome

and encourage you to have your child wear a T-shirt with a positive

message. Note: the next positiviTEE day will be Monday, May 1st.

Here are just a couple examples of positive messages: “Choose

Kind,” “Be the Nice Kid,” “Don’t Worry, Be Happy.” Any phrase or

picture on a shirt that sends a positive thought and puts a smile on

someone’s face is welcomed!

This is completely optional of course, but we hope you consider

having your child participate on the first Monday of every month!

Thank you for being such a positive part of our school community!

Please call City Hall with any questions: (715) 672-8770

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● Any individual that tests positive for COVID may not return to school until asymptomatic or have resolving symptoms, and are fever free without the use of fever-reducing medication for at least 24-hours. This is similar to how we handle any other illness.

● Students experiencing obvious signs of COVID will be asked to go home. This is similar to how we would handle any other illness type situation in our district.

● Students and staff should stay home if their screening reveals any of the following

symptoms that cannot be explained by other causes (such as seasonal allergies).

○ A temperature over 100.3 Fahrenheit within the last 24-hours.

○ Cough, shortness of breath, difficulty breathing, or sore throat within the last 24-hours and/or a new loss of taste or smell.

○ Pain or chills.

○ Illness symptoms including vomiting, diarrhea, continuous nasal drainage, or rash in the last 24-hours.

● Parents: contact you child’s school to report your student’s absence

○ Information should include the student’s complete name, symptoms of illness and a contact phone number

The Durand-Arkansaw School District will no longer be contact tracing, conducting disease investigations, providing notifications to parents of close contacts, excluding household close contacts, or requiring masks to be worn to return to school prior to the end of a quarantine period for a close contact unless ordered by federal, state, or local authorities. The district will also discontinue updating the Dashboard on the school webpage. We will be asking families to continue to notify us of any positive cases.

School safety continues to be a top priority for our school district. At morning drop off, you may walk your child into the commons to say goodbye, but access beyond the commons will not be granted at any time during the day. It is best if you drop your child off in the loop, exiting on the passenger side only, and let them walk inside on their own, as we will have staff on duty to help. Signs for bus and parent entrances are marked. Breakfast and drop off begin at 7:45am, please do not drop off any earlier than 7:45am as our doors are locked until then, and staff begin their supervising duties. Our school day starts at 8:10am.

Dismissal Times for bussing & parent pick-up will be as follows:

Students will be brought outside for parent pick-up

• 3:05pm: JK, Kdg, 1st grade, and all older siblings to these parent pick-up students
• 3:10pm: JK, Kdg, 1st grade are dismissed to the bus
  

• 3:15pm: 2nd Grade thru 5th Grade dismissed for bus and parent pick up

Walkers will be dismissed after the buses have departed

End of the day pick-up is incredibly busy and requires patience. We will bring all parent pick-up students outside the main doors at their scheduled dismissal time. Please do not come before your child/ren’s scheduled dismissal time, we need to keep the flow of the line/loop moving. We strongly encourage those who are able to ride the bus, to please do so. We need everyone to be patient and follow these safety guidelines at pick-up to ensure a smooth process for everyone.

• We do not dismiss students by themselves to the parking lot, you must park in a spot and come and get them from their line.

• Please drive with caution in the parking lot. Drive slow, stay off your cell phone, eyes on the road, & music turned down.

• Please do not park in the street, the buses need to get through.

• Reminder we are a tobacco free zone, this includes the parking lot.

• We will have staff on duty the entire time, if you aren’t able to get your child at 3:05pm- no worries, we will still have them with us at 3:15pm

It is important that your child/children know how they are getting home each day. It is incredibly challenging for us to be pulling students off the bus, from the parent pick-up line, making calls, etc. during dismissal time. If there are any changes to the way your child will be getting home please send a note or call the office before 2:30pm so we can plan accordingly.

Email: ejohnson@durand.k12.wi.us
Website: durand.k12.wi.us
Location: 650 Auth Street, Durand, WI, USA
Phone: 715-672-8977
Facebook: facebook.com/durandschool
Twitter: @durandschool