Caddie Woodlawn April Newsletter
April 2023
Welcome!
Looking ahead
- April 6 - First Grade Field Trip to Children's Museum (9:30-1:30)
- April 6 - Bridging Brighter Smiles
- April 7 - No school
- April 13 - Kindergarten field trip to the Children's Museum (8:20-2:30)
- April 13- 3rd thru 5th Grade attending Musical at MS/HS (1:00-3:00)
- April 17-21 Tornado Awareness and Severe Weather Week
- April 20 - Statewide tornado drills at 1:45 & 6:45
- April 20 - Reading Challenge reward picnic
- April 21- 5th grade Math Masters (11:00am-3:30pm)
- April 22- Earth Day!
- May 4- 5th Grade "Law Day" field trip to the Courthouse Museum
- May 12- K thru 2nd grade to the Eau Claire Children's Theatre
- May 12- 3rd thru 5th grade Track & Field
- May 19- Bike Rodeo for 2nd & 3rd Grades
- May 24- 1st Grade Sport center/Carson Park field trip
- May 24- 3rd Grade to Crystal Cave
- May 26- 5th Grade Graduation, 8:30am
Reading Challenge Picnic update
April is Math Month!
April 6: Wear something with numbers on it.
April14: Wear something with a pattern.
April 21 : Wear something with shapes.
April 28: Multiples, wear the same as someone else (doubles, triples...)
Message from Mrs. Johnson
At this time every year, we begin to receive questions on how we place students into certain classrooms. Grade level teachers, the building principal, and resource teachers go through their list of current students and provide input on student academic performance, behavior, and special learning characteristics. We identify where a student fits academically within a grade level curriculum. This identification is based on performance scores as well as general impressions. Teachers also identify students who may need special assistance, whether it is interventions or extension of the grade level curriculum. In addition to academic performance, teachers make note of student behavioral skills, identifying those who are strong leaders with peers, in need of peer support, or challenged by group interactions. Teachers may also consider those children who may need to be separated from one another.
When the initial information gathering tasks have been completed, your child’s current grade level teacher and resource teachers meet or share with the principal a draft of the upcoming year’s classes. The objective is to match student-learning styles to teacher strengths and areas of talent, while creating classrooms that have a balanced number of students who are strong, self-directed learners, with those who need some support. It is important that students learn to work and socialize in environments of diversity. This not only prepares them for “the real world”, but also allows individual talents to shine. As staff work together in developing balanced classrooms, they factor in all student information gathered from the variety of sources. Creating balanced classrooms, which focus on meeting all students’ needs, is our top priority. I hope that by sharing this process, you will understand the many factors used to make informed decisions regarding class placement. As an elementary school, we strive to create vibrant, excellent classrooms that serve the needs of all children.
Erika Johnson, Principal
Kindergartners spread sunshine!
1st Grade News!
Second Grade News!
Donations Needed
Tennis shoes
Items for the Health Room
lost and found
Summer School
Summer School information will be coming out soon. For your planning purposes, it 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-August3rd
Breakfast and Lunch Menus
2022-2023 Meal Prices
- Breakfast 4K-12 - $1.50/meal
- Lunch 4K-5 - $2.05/meal
- Extra milk: .40
Spread a little positivitee!
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, April 3rd.
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!
What's happening in our community?
Latest Quarantine Guidelines
● 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.
SAFETY ZONE
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.
2022-2023 School Calendar
Skyward Instructions
Contact us
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