Supply Pickup! If your child is NOT attending the hybrid learning days, then you will need to pick up their learning materials from school this week after the park days on either Thursday from 3:30-4:30 or on Friday from 1-2. If they ARE attending the hybrid learning days, then they will bring home their learning kit next week when they attend school on Monday and/or Tuesday.
Park Information
We are excited for our very first park day at Willamette Park on Thursday for K-5 and Friday for 6-8 this week! Here are some things to know along with detailed arrival and pick up directions below.
Where: Willamette Park, 6500 S. Macadam Avenue, at Nebraska Street and Macadam
Screening: Before your child can join their teacher, they must be health screened by a staff member. Please share with your child that we will be asking them these health screening questions below so that they know how to answer them. If the answer is yes to any of these questions, do not bring your child to the park or school.
Do you or anyone in your home have Covid-19 or feel like they might?
Have you been with anyone who has Covid in the past 14 days?
Primary symptoms include cough, fever of 100.4 or higher, or chills, shortness of breath, difficulty breathing, and new loss of taste or smell. Note that muscle pain, headache, sore throat, diarrhea, nausea or vomiting, new nasal congestion are also associated with Covid.
Kindergarten-5th Grade Park Day
Time: Thursday, 1:00-3:30 Please do not drop your child off before 1. We will not be ready to screen them and teachers will not be ready to receive them. We will have 13 Cottonwood Staff members to support our K-5 park day!
What to Bring:K-5 will not be eating while at the park, but please send them with a water bottle to keep hydrated. Teachers will share any additional class specific supplies.
Dress for the weather: We will be outdoors the entire time. Bring rain gear if necessary and shoes that can handle mud. Apply sunscreen to your child ahead of time as we cannot apply it.
Drop off instructions: Pull over and let your children out on the right side of your car. Due to physical distancing we will not be able to unbuckle or help your child out of the car. It may be difficult to have younger children get out quickly on their own. If needed please park and walk your child over to the drop off spot. Do not let children walk through the parking lot on their own. Staff will take attendance, screen and parent volunteers will lead students to their class spot.
Pick Up instructions: Pull up to the same area where students were dropped off. A staff member will call your child over to the car. We cannot help to buckle your child and must keep the flow of cars moving. Please pull into a parking spot if your child needs help to buckle themselves.
Drop off and Pick up locations(see map at end):
Kindergarten and 3rd Grade: South side of the boat launch parking lot. First & Second graders: South end of the park. Parents will head south, past the boat ramp parking and tennis courts (on the left) and bathrooms to the Cottonwood greeter (on the right after the road curves towards the river). Please teach your student(s) how to undo their seat belt and ready themselves to hop out. Once stopped, your student(s) will get out on the curbside.
First & Second graders: South end of the park. Parents will head south, past the boat ramp parking and tennis courts (on the left) and bathrooms to the Cottonwood greeter (on the right after the road curves towards the river). Please teach your student(s) how to undo their seat belt and ready themselves to hop out. Once stopped, your student(s) will get out on the curbside.
4th and 5th graders: North side of the boat ramp lot. If the curb is full of trucks and trailers look for Cottonwood Staff to direct you to a safe drop off location.
Middle School Park Day
Time: Friday, 9:00-1:00
Screeners and teachers will not be ready for students until 9am. We will have 6 Cottonwood staff members to support this park day.
What to Bring:Students will be eating lunch outside. All students will need a lunch and water bottle and their mask. Teachers will share any additional things to bring.
Dress for the weather: We will be outdoors the entire time. Bring rain gear if necessary and shoes that can handle mud. Apply sunscreen ahead of time if needed.
Drop off and Pick up locations(see map at end):
6th Grade: South end of park, past the tennis courts and just past the bathrooms as the road curves back toward the river. Cottonwood staff will be there to retrieve and release 6th graders. Pull over and let your 6th grader hop out. Staff will take attendance and screen all 6th graders who will then make their way to their class spot.
7th and 8th graders: South side of the boat ramp lot. Turn left into the last boat ramp parking lot lane and watch for Cottonwood staff on the immediate right side. Pull over and let your children out on the right side of your car. Cottonwood staff will be there to direct and get kids screened and checked in.
If your middle schooler has permission to leave the park on foot or bike, please let the teachers know and they can be dismissed. Please note that once released at 1:00 your student will be in charge of their own safety, physical distancing and mask protocol.
Students are being picked up and dropped off at the same locations.
