Caddie Woodlawn December 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!

• Dec 1- Picture retakes
  
• Dec 12-16- Holiday Food Drive
• Dec 15- Christmas Program
• Dec 23 thru Jan 2- Christmas Break
• Jan 12 and 13- No school (Staff Development)
• Feb 10- No school (Staff Development)
• March 10- No school (PT Conf/Staff Development)
• March 13-17- No school, spring break!

Our students are busy practicing for their Christmas Program on Thursday, December 15th, and we are so excited to share the gift of music with you. A reminder of the schedule:

• 8:30am 4K
• 10:00am Kindergarten and 1st grade
  
• 12:30pm 2nd and 3rd grade
  
• 1:45pm 4th and 5th grade
  





Parking is always very busy on concert day, please plan accordingly, and at the end of your child(ren)’s concert please exit the building/parking lot as efficiently & safely as possible to allow for the next group to come in. A reminder to please send a cold lunch with your child, unless you let your classroom teacher know ahead of time to have the kitchen provide a cold lunch.

We are also doing our food drive for the Durand Food Pantry so if you would like to bring a non-perishable item we will have carts set up in the commons for your donations.




Thank you!

Now that winter weather is upon us, please send your child to school with coats, snow pants, boots, hats, and gloves. If you need assistance purchasing these things, please call the office at (715)672-8977.

Nurse Pam stopped in to teach 1st graders the importance of using soap
when washing their hands!

A HUGE thank you to the Durand Fire Department for taking time out of your day to teach the 1st graders about fire safety.

Mrs. Hestekin's 2nd Grade class did a science experiment with Ms. Sanken (our student teacher)! They got to "make rain' which helped them understand the different parts of the water cycle!

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 - $1.85/meal
• Lunch 4K-5 - $2.60/meal
• Lunch 6-12 - $2.90/meal

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, December

5th.

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!

● 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