The Cove Connection 

 Sunday, March 24th, 2019

Issue #27

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UPCOMING DATES

• DELAC Meeting Tuesday, March 26th 8:30am Hall Room 406

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

• Lost and Found Walkthrough Thursday, March 28th

• Coffee with Brett Monday, April 1st, 8:15am, Cove Gallery

• Spark Board Meeting Monday, April 1st 7:30pm Hall Library

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

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

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

• Cove PTO Board Meeting Wednesday, April 17th, 8:30am Cove Library

• LCMSD Boarding Monday, April 22nd, 6:00pm Hall Library

PRINCIPAL MESSAGE

Have you ever been to a Maker Fair?  Imagine one at your child’s very own school! Our famous Tinker Day is just around the corner...less than a week away!  

Wednesday, March 27th from 9:30am-11:30am our school transforms into a Tinker/Maker Fair for 2nd-5th grade students.  K-1st grade students will be tinkering in their classrooms.

We need your help!  Here’s what you can do:

• Volunteer by completing this form here.  Lots of helping hands needed!  This is separate from volunteering at your child’s classroom station (teachers are requesting those volunteers separately).

• Collect useable treasures for our general tinkering area.  Please send a bag of items (clean recycling, tubes, any crafty items) to school with your child on Wednesday.  They should leave these items on the painted earth in the center of the courtyard on Wednesday morning.

• Contact Diana Nay (dnay@lcmschools.org)  if you have items you can donatesuch as fabric, masking tape, glue guns, or anything else that might be used for tinkering! We need the following items: socks for puppets, t-shirts for stamping(you can send your child with a light colored shirt they can stamp on), fabrics, old electronics or items that kids can disassemble, cardboard boxes.

This event takes a village.  The kids will forever remember Tinker/Maker Day.  Please help make it happen! This event is made possible through your SPARK donations.  THANK YOU!

Sincerely,

Michelle Walker, Principal 

Amanda Estes, Teacher Tinker Day Coordinator

Chris Slowe, Parent Tinker Day Coordinator

SCHOOL NEWS

• Cove Open House Please join us for this special event on Thursday, April 4, 6:00-7:30pm. Classrooms are open 6:00-7:15pm, and then the 5th-grade band will perform at 7:15pm in the Gallery for anyone who wants to join! The purpose of Open House is to give you a deeper look into what your children have been learning and how they have been learning it. Your children will guide you through their classrooms, sharing about their learning.

1:15pm Early Dismissal on Friday, April 5th!

Retirement Congratulations Congratulations to Jackie Shapiro on retiring this year from her role in LCMSD for the past 16 years!

Forget Screen Time Rules - Lean In To Parenting Your Wired Child Check out this great and timely article, recognizing that the overuse of technology has become parents biggest worry, but most of us don’t know what to do about it.

Safe Routes to School

• Walk & Roll Wednesday & Raffle, March 27th The goal of the Safe Routes to School program is to create a safe walking and biking culture which nurtures Green Travel. Students may walk, bike, scoot, carpool or take public transportation...if you live at a greater distance, please consider parking your car 1/4 mile from campus and walking with your child from there. Please help your children participate!

• Safe Routes Raffle: Weather permitting, Safe Routes will host a welcome table in the courtyard on Wednesday, 3/27 where they will be handing out free Safe Routes swag along with entry tickets for our next ice cream raffle. Children who travel a "green way" to school via foot, bike, scooter or bus are eligible to enter the raffle for Mag's gift cards.

Derby Den Productions - “Hairspray Jr.” and “Ukulele Ensemble” are being offered after school starting soon! Sign-ups are in the front office. See details here. Scholarships available, contact Mrs. Derby.

PTO UPDATES

2019 Cove Yearbooks now ON SALE! Yearbooks will be on sale until Friday, April 13th (the Friday of Spring Break) for $25. Order forms are available in the office or click here to order online. Yearbooks will be sent home with students the last week of school.

Contributions to The Cove PTO are Tax deductible. Did you contribute to the PTO in 2018 or plan to this year? Your contribution is fully tax deductible. The Cove PTO tax ID number is 35-2503277. Provide the tax ID with your proof of contribution to claim your deduction. And THANK YOU for your support!

Visit us online! Click here to keep up with the Cove/PTO events, purchase spirit wear,support our membership and more!

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SPARK NEWS

Record-Breaking Online Auction Sales: Thanks to the over 500 individuals who participated in the Online Auction, it grossed nearly $128,000- a SPARK record! Another shout out to the wonderful teachers for supporting the auction with sign-up parties.

Pick-Up Times: Congratulations winners, now what? Check out the pick-up times and locations here.

An Evening at the Races: Spring Spotlight tickets are on sale now!  Please join us Saturday, May 4th, at the Marin Civic Center from 6:00-11:00pm for a Kentucky Derby Party to remember featuring a live auction, dinner, dancing, and the Tom Petty tribute band, Petty Theft.

Nugget Community Card -- Attention all Nugget shoppers! Earn money for SPARK every time you shop at Nugget when you use your Community Card. Pick up a card at the customer service desk at the Nugget Corte Madera location through the end of March.

COMMUNITY NEWS

Please click here for updates from:

• Read to a Dog at Larkspur Library

• Wildfire Preparedness

• Kinder Readiness Camp

• Spring Forward with Clay and Kiki

• Corte Madera Library Kids' Book Club

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