The Cove Connection 

Sunday, March 10th, 2019

Issue #25

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UPCOMING DATES

• No School- Teacher Professional Development Day, Monday, March 11th

• SPARK Online Auction, Tuesday, March 12 - Monday, March 18th

• Cove PTO Board Meeting Wednesday, March 13th, 8:30am-9:30am,Cove Library

• Cove Site Council Meeting Thursday, March 14th, 3:30-5:00pm, Cove Conference Room

• Cove Math Night Thursday, March 14th, 6:00-7:30pm, Cove Gallery      

• Cove School Tour for Incoming Families (sign-up required) Wednesday, March 20th 9:00am-10:00am

• Health & Wellness Meeting Tuesday, March 26th, 3:30pm-5:00pm,District Office

• Cove Tinker Day Wednesday, March 27th, 8:30am-12:30pm

• Cove Open House, Thursday, April 4th, 6:00pm-7:30pm

• Early Dismissal, 1:15pm Friday, April 5th

• Spring Break, No School April 8th-April 12th

PRINCIPAL'S MESSAGE

• Why is there no school Monday?  It’s a professional development daybecause teachers are learners too! This year, as a district, we are focusing on Readers’ Workshop and Cognitively Guided Math Instruction (CGI). Tomorrow, teachers will be working with Momentum in Teaching on further developing their Readers’ Workshop practices. You can read more about Readers’ Workshop here.

Mindfulness Update- The ability to pay attention is one of our most valuable resources. Mindfulness trains us to do two things: pay attention and become aware of what’s going on inside our minds. What we pay attention to will shape our minds; you get good at what you practice! Permission to Land is a Mindfulness tool that has been taught across the schools. It teaches students how they can practice paying attention to their thoughts and emotions. When you become aware of the thoughts and emotions, you gain control of how they are affecting your reactions. So how can you use this tool? Just pause and ask yourself: How am I feeling? What do I need? What is the reoccurring thought pattern and how is it affecting me? We hope you will give yourself and your children Permission to Land this week.

SCHOOL NEWS

Cove Math Night is Thursday, 3/14-- Pi Day, 6:00pm – 7:30pm in the Cove Gallery! Join us for a fun evening of math games and activities, rewards and giveaways! Kids and parents play the games together. Marin Pizza will be there for anyone interested in purchasing dinner at the event. Middle school volunteers needed! If you have an older child in need of volunteer hours: please sign uphere. Thank you to Mathnasium, SPARK and The Cove PTO for sponsoring this event. 

Cove Tinker/STEAM Day is Wednesday, March 27, 2019 Help us continue this beloved STEAM day tradition by volunteering when our school transforms into a Tinker/Maker Fair!  2nd-5th grade students will take part in the Tinker/Maker Fair, K-1st grade students tinker in their classrooms. Click here to help!.

Safe Routes to School - Walk & Roll Wednesday, March 13 Please help your children participate! They can walk, bike, scoot, carpool or take public transportation to get to school a green way. If you live at a greater distance, please consider parking your car 1/4 mile from campus and walking with your child from there. Our Safe Routes volunteers will have a table set up in the courtyard. Thank you for helping us to reduce pollution and traffic near Cove and encourage healthy habits.  

The Cove Art Room is in need of newspaper, paper towel rolls and (clean) cardboard (boxes are great!) for creating upcoming art. Donations may be dropped off to the office during school hours, or The Cove art room before or after school. Thank you so much for all of your support! --Ms. McKee

PTO UPDATES

Such an Amazing Variety Show! The 2019 Cove Variety Show was a smash hit! It was amazing to see so many talented performers give it their all in front of their family and friends! A special THANK YOU to Amber Smith Gaulding andElena O’Brien for doing a great job of leading this show! We would also like to thank the many parents who stepped up and gave it their all! We couldn’t have done it without you! Thank you!

Good Eggs Promotion Absurdly fresh groceries, delivered. Use Good Eggs to help our school! How to join the fundraiser:

• Visit Goog Eggs.

• Enter the code COVESCHOOL19 –– click "Shop Now.”

• Add your groceries to your Good Eggs basket and check out! That easy!

• New customers get $15 off with code COVESCHOOL19.

Let’s be social! Keep up with PTO events, purchase awesome Cove swag,support our membership and more on our PTO website! Have you liked us on Facebook?   

SPARK NEWS

SPARK Online Auction Opens Tuesday, March 12 at 12:00 p.m.:  Please note new start time! From kids camps and classes, restaurants, sports and entertainment, fashion, jewelry and beauty and sign up parties, there’s something for everyone!

Online Auction Easy as 1-2-3:

1. Set up an account with Ready Set Auction here (you need to set up a new account every year even if you have done this before)

2. Bid early, bid often and bid high!

3. The online auction catalog will be available to view starting Monday March 11th.

SPARK Fundraising Update: We need to raise $1.4M this year but have not yet reached our goal. These funds help to provide music, art, science integration, engineering and robotics for this school year. Reaching our fundraising goal allows us to maintain our commitment to the District and appropriately set goals for the 2019-2020 school year. Now more than ever, in these trying financial times, we are working hard to reach 100% Annual Giving participation this year! SPARK funds are critical to delivering the education our children deserve. Please join us with a donation or pledge today. 

COMMUNITY NEWS

Click here for updates from:

• Amazing March Events at the Larkspur Library

• Chess for Kids Grade K-5th

• Amazing Science Grades 1st-3rd

• Organised by Geanne

• Marissa Joy Ganz NY Broadway Training Classes

• BandWorks Summer Camp

• Galileo Summer Camps 

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ABOUT THE COVE CONNECTION The Cove Connection is a digital bulletin published by the CovePTO and distributed to The Cove School community each Sunday via email. To submit content to the Cove Connection, please email info@covepto.org. To receive a subscription to The Cove Connection, or to change your email address, send a note to  covesecretaries@lcmschools.org.