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At Bird, staff, students, families and our community work together to ensure all learn and grow through building meaningful relationships and providing rigorous, engaging, and culturally responsive experiences.

To be a welcoming, inspiring, empowering learning community where ALL thrive.

I am so impressed with our amazing Bird community. Thank you to our scholars, staff, and parents/caregivers/families for welcoming Tamara and me with open arms!

Our school has spent the last 4 weeks building routines and expectations, creating classroom contracts, and learning how to play and work together as a community! We will continue this month with reinforcing, reminding, and redirecting high expectations for all our scholar

Mrs. Livingston and I also had the opportunity to go into all our classrooms to reteach expectations around safety in the hallways, responsibilities in the bathroom, and respect with gentle words and hands to ourselves and off each other. Ask your scholar if they know what the 3 rules of the THE BLUE JAY WAY is!

We also introduced our BIRD CASH to our scholars and teachers this past week! BIRD CASH is a PBIS strategy that reinforces positive behaviors and proactively give scholars immediate feedback on the great choices they are making by following the Blue Jay Way. Any staff can give our scholars a BIRD CASH ticket that can be redeemed in the classroom! They will also be able to bring the other side home to celebrate with you!

Just like the picture of Tamara and me, we know this is going to be the best year ever!

• Our Bird families and school staff are equal partners.

• All families can support their children's learning in different ways.

• All families have hopes and dreams for their children and want the best for them.

• All families want to have meaningful communication with school staff.

• The responsibility for growing and continuing partnerships among school, home and community rests first and foremost with school staff especially school leaders.

We served at least 290 people at our annual Taking It To The Park family engagement event at Vandenburg Heights Park! 101 adults and 189 kids checked in.

Thank you to CH BEST, CH Bird, and Community Schools for funding our delicious meals from Guimo's in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month.

The Sun Prairie Area School District in partnership with SSM Health is offering a FREE vaccine clinic for students, families, and staff ages 5 and up on Tuesday, October 10th from 3-7pm at the PLC. See the attached flyers for more information and a sign up link.

SPASD Free Vaccine Clinic Information and Sign Up Links - English

SPASD Free Vaccine Clinic Information and Sign Up Links - Spanish

A friendly reminder of the Blue Jay Shuffle event on Friday, October 13th. We have a need for volunteers during the Blue Jay Shuffle - please check those out and sign up here. Come cheer on your kiddo during the event (loud cheers & signs welcome)!

• 8:15 - 8:35 - First Grade

• 8:40 - 9:00 - Kindergarten

• 9:05 - 9:25 - Third Grade

• 9:30 - 9:50 - Fifth Grade

• 9:55 - 10:15 - Second Grade

• 10:20 - 10:40 - Fourth Grade

Fall conferences are upon us and we'd like to provide a meal for teachers and staff on Thursday, October 19th and breakfast & snacks for Friday, October 20. We will be catering dinner from Banzo and are seeking monetary donations to support the cost of the meal. If you are interested and able to contribute, please drop cash or check to the front office by Wednesday, October 18th or venmo Brigette Singletary, CH BEST President, using @Brigette-Singletary and include a memo of 'CH Bird Staff Dinner'. Please click here to access the sign-up genius for food and beverage donations we are seeking.

EVERY TUESDAY

Cardio Drumming with Sunny Nutrition

6:15 pm - 7:00 pm

Bird Cafeteria

Monday, 10/2

• PD Day, No School

Wednesday, 10/4

• SP West Homecoming Parade
  

• 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Thursday, 10/5

• F.A.S.T (Families and School Together)

  5:30 pm-8:00 pm

  Bird Cafeteria
  

Wednesday, 10/11

• Meals for Haiti Food Packing Event

  5:30-8:30

  Bird Cafeteria
  
  

Thursday, 10/12

• SP East Homecoming Parade
  

• 5:30-7:00

  
  

Friday, 10/13

• BLUE JAY SHUFFLE - We need volunteers! Sign up here.

Tuesday, 10/17

• Picture Retake

Thursday, 10/19

• Parent/Caregiver/Teacher Conferences
  4:00pm-7:00pm

Friday, 10/20

• Parent/Caregiver/Teacher Conferences

• 7:30am-11:30am

Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays

2:40 p.m. Dismissal

Thursdays (EARLY RELEASE)

1:30 p.m. Dismissal

• When students arrive between 7:30 and 7:40, they should walk to the back of the school and enter the school building at the back of the school by the cafeteria.

• Kindergarteners, 1st graders and 4th graders will enter through door 6

• 2nd graders, 3rd graders and 5th graders will enter through door 7.

• Students may purchase a breakfast in the cafeteria when they enter school and will bring their breakfast to the classroom to eat.

• Students will exit the school in the back of the school by the cafeteria. If you are meeting your student and walking home, designate a meeting location outside the back of the school.

• If you are picking up in a vehicle, students will walk along the side of the school looking for your vehicle and will wait on the sidewalk until you are able to pull forward to them. Pull as far forward as possible.

• Students should not enter or exit a vehicle before the crosswalk. There are posted signs to let you know when it is ok for students to enter the vehicle. Once you are past the sign, pull as far forward as possible and pick up your student.

ATTENDANCE LINE: 608-834-7300 #1

If your child will be late, sick or just out for the day, please be sure to call the attendance line by 8:00 am. The bell rings and attendance is taken at 7:55am.

PLEASE make sure your information in Infinite Campus is up to date with emergency contact information in case your student is ill and needs to go home.

C.H. Bird's Health office is located next to the main office and the phone number is 608-834-7306.

Please keep your student home from school if they are not feeling well. Possible reasons to stay home:

• Fever of 100.4 or higher in the last 24 hours
• Must be fever free without medication before returning
• Vomiting and/or diarrhea
• Itchy, draining, spreading rash
• Illness requiring antibiotics (like strep or pink eye)

Friendly reminder to send your student with an extra pair of clothes. Spills, accidents, playground puddles are all possible scenarios on why your student may need to change during the school day.

The safety and security of our students and staff is a top priority for the district. We have been teaching our students to say something to a trusted adult when they see something unsafe. Sometimes, though, there are barriers to reporting safety issues in person. Tip lines are one common approach that schools use to promote school and student safety and well-being. Tip lines are designed to provide students or other members of the public with a safe and confidential way to report a threat to a student or school safety.

To that end, we have created an Electronic Safety Tip Line available on the district website. The e-Tip Line allows students, parents, or community members to report weapons, threats of violence, bullying, sexual harassment, threat of suicide, drugs, and any other activity that could potentially endanger students, staff, and property.

We are developing a communication plan to roll this out to students in upper elementary, middle school, and high school. The e-Tip Line is available on the district website from the “Families” menu and “Quicklinks” and can also be found on the district bullying and safety webpages. If a student wishes to file a bullying report, that Fillable Bullying Report Form is also available on the website.