Caddie Woodlawn
November 2024 Newsletter
Welcome
Looking Ahead
- Nov 4- Positivi"tee" Day
- Nov 4 & 5- Vision Screening
- Nov 5 & 6- Visit from the Fire Dept Kdg-3rd grades
- Nov 11- Veterans Day Program 9:00 am
- Nov 21- Donuts with Grown ups Breakfast and Book Giveaway 7:15 am
- Nov 25 thru 29- Thanksgiving Break
- Dec 12- Christmas Concert
🎄8:30-JK
🌟10:00-Kdg & 1st Grade
🎅🏻12:30-2nd & 3rd Grade
❄️1:45- 4th & 5th Grade
- Dec 23 thru Jan 1- Christmas Break
- Jan 20 & 21- No school
- Feb 10- No school
- March 14- No school PT Conferences
- April 18- No school
- May 26- Memorial Day- no school
Star Students and Specials classes from October!
Halloween Fun!!
Veterans Day
Caddie Student Council is preparing for our Veterans Day program on Monday, November 11th at 9:00am. If you have a veteran in your life you'd like to honor, please complete and return the Wall of Honor form that came home with your child. Extra copies are available in the school office.
PINK OUT for breast cancer awareness
1st Grade Happenings
Mr. Nelson paid a visit to Mrs. Schade's class and read a story!
Mrs. Brown’s class filled up their star jar and earned a Bring a Stuffed Animal to School Day!
3rd Grade activities
The third graders in 3U learned why our skeletons have so many bones. We did a Skeleton Hand Activity where students combine science with art: they trace their hands, then add see-through bones to their picture, making their own skeleton hand.
The third graders in 3E had fun painting pumpkins in their pajamas that were donated by one of their classmates!
1st Graders reading with 3rd grade buddies!
Library News
Thank you to all of the Caddie Families that participated in our Storybook Tissue Box activity! We now have over 50 tissue boxes that will not only help decorate the library and other spaces in the school, but that we can use during sniffly-nose season. Thank you so much for your creative contributions!!!
Lost & Found
Please feel free to call the office, or stop in to claim!
Donations Needed:
To replenish our student supply closet, which is used for students in need of new or replaced school supplies throughout the year, the office needs: washable markers and colored pencils.
Pupil Services Update
Please see the links below for a message about our b.e.s.t. screener. The b.e.s.t. helps staff at Caddie Woodlawn to refine and strengthen efforts to help all of our students to be successful academically and behaviorally.
Report Cards
Report Cards can be viewed in Skyward Family Access
Instructions: Log in to Skyward Family Access and select “Portfolio”. Select Quarter 1, 2024-2025 from the list.
https://skyward.iscorp.com/scripts/wsisa.dll/WService=wsedudurandarkansawwi/seplog01.w
Please reach out to the office if you need assistance.
Did you know?
You can add money to your lunch account online!
Instructions: Log in to Skyward Family Access and select “Food Service" from the menu.
- Make a Payment
- Update Payment Amount
- Pay with Vendor
https://skyward.iscorp.com/scripts/wsisa.dll/WService=wsedudurandarkansawwi/seplog01.w
All members of a family share a lunch account.
2024-2025 Meal Prices
Lunch 4K-5 - $2.05/meal
Extra milk: .40
Bridging Brighter Smiles
ABOUT US
Bridging Brighter Smiles, Inc. is a school-based preventative dental care program. Founded in Wisconsin in 2012, we are a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization bringing essential dental services to students in the comfort of their school. Our mission is to bridge the gap in dental care by offering access to services, building wellness relationships within communities, and educating students to instill life-long healthy habits.
Professional Dental Services Provided Right at School Include:
- Oral Screening
- Dental Cleaning
- Fluoride Varnish Application
- Dental Sealant Placement
- Silver Diamine Fluoride Application
- Oral Health Education
- Referral Assistance
Enroll now!
What's happening in our community?
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
- 3:15pm: 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.
2024-2025 Calendar
The School Board has approved the calendar for the 2024-2025 school year. Families will notice two differences in the calendar from previous years. The first is that after the survey of the families there will not be a Spring Break. The survey data was overwhelmingly in favor of ending school earlier without a Spring Break. The second change is that we will be starting school closer to September 1st this year. The state is no longer granting waivers allowing us to start as early as we have the past couple of years.
As in years past we will have three "Orientation Days" the end of August that will look and feel like the first three days of school. In the past we have found great value in these days for all students and staff.
Skyward Family Access Instructions
Nondiscrimination Policies & Practices
All districts in Wisconsin are currently reviewing their policies and practices around pupil nondiscrimination. If you would like to provide input in this process, please contact Michelle Zagozen, Director of Pupil Services, at 715-672-8921 or mzagozen@durand.k12.wi.us.
Contact us
Email: cwsoffice@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