The Cove Connection 

Sunday, October 28th, 2018

Issue #10

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UPCOMING DATES

• Cove PTO Dine Out Night, Monday October 29th, 5:00pm-8:30pm, Marin Pizza

• Halloween Kindergarten Mask Parade Wednesday, October 31st, 12:00pm-12:20pm

• Make-Up School Picture Day Friday, November 2nd

• AdaptED Part 2, Tuesday, November 6th, 6:30pm-8:30pm, Hall Middle School

• Cove Cafe Coffee Wednesday, November 7th, 8:15am - 9:15am

• Veterans Day, No School, November 12th

• Cove PTO Board Meeting Wednesday, November 14th, 8:30am-9:45am

• LCMSD Board Meeting, Wednesday, November 14th, 6:00pm-9:00pm, Hall Library

Principal Message

• What is Cognitively Guided Instruction (CGI) in Math?

The way we teach math has changed! The emphasis used to be on procedural and skill fluency, but now procedural and skill fluency, conceptual understanding, and application are equally valued. With the Common Core Standards there are now two sets of math standards:

• Standards for Mathematical Content (What students need to learn by grade level)

• Standards for Mathematical Practice (How we teach and how students should engage with mathematics from kindergarten through 12th grade)

In CGI, students are taught to explain their thinking. Children discover (and teachers celebrate!) multiple strategies for solving a problem. Research has shown that children make deeper connections and foster greater conceptual understanding when they engage in few problems and solve them in multiple ways rather than many of the same type of problem.

Additionally, children are offered problems that are at their level.  They have the option to use different numbers, based on the level of challenge they need. This allows for deeper and more challenging exploration of the given concept and promotes higher level thinking skills. Read more about CGI and how we are working to implement it here.

Our teachers are working hard to implement CGI strategies this year. Thank you for your support of them!

SCHOOL NEWS

Be ON TIME for Cove-in-Motion! Teachers have been reminded to send students to office for a tardy slip if they arrive after we begin- “We - are - Cove - School”. Tardies are recorded and tracked and reported at the state level.

Mindfulness, Last Week’s Focus: Emotions Thanks to SPARK Fund-a-Need, students are learning foundational tools to help with focus and self-regulation. If you have a child in 4th or 5th grade, you can ask them how they prevent themselves from ‘falling into the hole,’ (it’s a reference to a poem they read about our habitual nature of repeating a behavior yet expecting a different outcome). Students in grades K-3 are learning to use their breath as a tool to self-regulate and how to attune to sound or sensations in the body if they are feeling overwhelmed.

Help needed! We need you! A 3.5 hour campus support position is open at Cove.  You can come help in classrooms and at lunchtime! Or let Principal Michelle Walker know if you can help out 1-hour per day at lunch - we can pay you!

Safety at Pickup & Drop off Please do not park in crosswalks, double park in the drop-off circle, or park in a red zone. This is especially true during pickup time. Please share with caregivers. Let’s keep our kids safe!

PTO UPDATES

Join us tomorrow night at Marin Pizza for The Cove School's very first "Dine Out” event, Tomorrow, October 29th, 5pm-8:30pm. During this event 10% of all sales are donated back to The Cove School PTO. Dine there or take away. Clickhere for the Evite. Contact Beth Sherry with any questions.

Variety Show Volunteer Needed We are looking for a volunteer to help our Team Leads run rehearsals and prepare for the Variety Show performance. If interested, please email president@covepto.org.

Good Eggs Good Eggs donates 5% of purchases back The Cove PTO. To redeem, visit schools.goodeggs.com, and enter code COVESCHOOL18. This week get a free snack pack if you are one of the first 200 new families to sign up.Questions, contact Melissa Sheeline.

Stay connected to The Cove PTO We have a new website! Visit us at The Cove PTO to view membership, learn about our mission, and more.

SPARK NEWS

SPARK Counts on YOU SPARK revenues raised this school year pays for programs and materials this year! Your financial support provides important funding at our three schools for our 1,500 students in music, art, technology, engineering, robotics and more! That’s why Annual Giving participation is so critical. Join us as for the SPARK #GivingTuesday participation challenge and help us get to 50% participation!

Did you know? You can spread out your Annual giving donation by setting up monthly installments that work for your time and budget. Click here for more information.

Dad's Night Out is November 2nd Join us for the annual Dad's Movie Night and support SPARK while having a great time with fellow dads and local legends at the American Legion Hall in Larkspur. As well as screening a classic comedy, festivities will include dinner, drinks, prizes and pub games. Sign up here.

COMMUNITY NEWS

Click here for community updates from:

• Twin Cities Little League

• Girls Softball

• School Crossing Guards

• Tamalpais Unified School District, Measure J

• MAGICKIDS

• SK8 Gym Skateboarding lessons

• Carlos Menotti’s Amahl and The Night Visitors

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