The Cove Connection 

Sunday, January 6th, 2019

Issue #17

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UPCOMING DATES

• SPARK Board Meeting Tuesday, January 8th, 7:30-9:00pm, Hall Library

• Cove PTO Board Meeting Wednesday, January 9th 8:30am-9:45am,Cove Library

• Cove School Tour for Incoming Families Wednesday, January 16th 9:00am-10:00am

• Hot Cocoa and Game Night Thursday, January 17th, 6:30pm-8:00pm,Cove Gallery

• Readathon Kickoff Friday, January 18th

• Martin Luther King Jr. Day, No School Monday January 21st

• Cove Site Council Meeting Thursday, January 24th 3:30pm-5:00pm

PRINCIPAL MESSAGE

Getting Back Into the Routine

Happy New Year! I hope you all had a wonderful winter break. I am excited to see all of your children tomorrow morning!

Arrive on Time for School! Has your morning routine been creeping back, taking longer? It’s time to readjust and commit to being on time!

Our school day STARTS at 8:14 on the blacktop. That means your child needs to be at school by 8:10 in order to drop their backpack off and be on the blacktop ready to go at 8:14.  Missing a few minutes of Cove in Motion (CIM) is not okay. 

Your child is marked tardy if they are not here and ready to go from the start of CIM.  As a school, we are working to improve our documentation and notification of tardies. Effective now, we have implemented an 8:14am bell in addition to our 8:12 warning bell (they have different tones). Additionally, we have people posted at the entrances to the blacktop, recording names of students who arrive after 8:14. Those lists are logged in our student information system each morning. In December, we notified families of students who had 3 or more unexcused tardies in the past month. 

Please adjust your morning routines accordingly and do whatever it takes to be here on time. Please help your children instill this important skill that will help them for life. Thank you for your commitment and support on behalf of the kids!

*BUS: We have worked with the bus to ensure that it arrives on time.  Students who ride the bus are not marked tardy when the bus arrives late.  However, students still need to transition from the bus to the blacktop in a timely fashion in order to be on time each day.

Sincerely,

Michelle Walker, Principal

SCHOOL NEWS

Hot Lunch Reminder: Order lunch online for January at www.thelunchmaster.com.  Please be sure your student has a lunch ordered for Monday and the rest of the month of January. Cove has changed to a limited menu served buffet style on reusable metal trays with reusable forks.  LCM is working as efficiently as possible to reduce waste at all our schools and we are starting at Cove.

PTO UPDATES

Read-a-thon Save The Date! The 3rd annual Read-a-thon is scheduled to launch on Friday, January 18th! Get your books ready! All funds raised go directly back to our school! More details to follow…

Variety Show Registration Registration for The Cove’s 2019 Variety Show will open at 9:00am on Wednesday, January 9th and close at 11:59 pm Friday, January 11th. Everyone interested in participating must register during this time. For more information, click here. If you have any questions, please contactvarietyshow@covepto.org. 

Hot Cocoa and Game Night Come in pajamas, bring your favorite board games, and join us for a cup of hot cocoa. This is the first event of its kind at the Cove and we’re hoping for cozy night of games and community! Thursday, January 17th, 6:30pm-8:00pm in the Cove Gallery. Questions, or to help with the event, contact Beth Sherry.

Visit us online! www.covepto.org

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SPARK NEWS

Getting closer to our $1.4M year-end goal Thanks to the 623 families who have either donated or pledged this year, Annual Giving has raised just shy of 900K!  Please make sure you’re on our updated list!

Save the Date SPARK Spring Events

• Spring Online Auction: March 12th-18th

• Spring Spotlight Gala: Saturday, May 4th

• SPARK Giants Night: Tuesday, May 14th

Volunteers Needed Was your New Year’s resolution to get more involved in our community? We’re actively looking for parent volunteers to help solicit donationsfrom businesses for our online auction in March. We'll provide you with the forms, email script and contact information. The online auction brings in nearly $100K for our schools each year. If event planning is more your thing, please consider shadowing our Spring Spotlight Event Chairs this year who will be retiring after an incredible three years coordinating the gala. Contact info@SPARKschools.orgif interested in helping with any positions.

COMMUNITY NEWS

Click here for information from:

• Marin Girls Chorus

• Art with Harry, 1st-5th Grade

• MAGIKIDS Ages 7-10yrs

• Chess for kids, Grades K-5th

• Amazing Science Grades 1st-3rd

• TinkerTech Inventors

• Tidalwaves Swim Team

• Marissa Joy Ganz NY Broadway Training Classes

• Dance with E.N.A!

• Classical Ballet with Lisa Moore Shields at Stapleton Ballet

• Clay with Kiki

• BandWorks Summer Camp

• Galileo Summer Camps Innovative Camps for Kids

• Larkspur-Corte Madera School District Annual Accounting of Capital Facilities Fees

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