The Cove Connection

Sunday, September 22nd, 2019

Issue #5

UPCOMING DATES

September 27- Spiritwear Sale, 8:00am, Courtyard
October 2- Walk and Roll To School Day
October 2- Cove PTO Board meeting, 8:30am-9:45am Cove Library
October 2-4- 5th Grade Outdoor Science Education
October 3- School Site Council Meeting, 3:30pm, Cove Conf. Rm
October 7- SPARK Meeting,7:30pm-9:00pm, Hall Library
October 9- No School
October 10- Cove Fall Family Picnic, 5:00pm-7:00pm, Cove Blacktop
October 11- Coffee with Principal Walker, 8:15am
Oct 14-18- Conference Week, Early 1:15 Dismissal
Oct 14-18- Scholastic Book Fair, Cove Library
October 17- CA Great Shakeout Earthquake Drill

PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE

Learning Engineering and Computer Science

While your children had no school on Friday, our Cove and Neil Cummins teachers were busy learning how to teach computer science and engineering! Michael Song (LCMSD Science, Technology, Robotics, and Engineering Teacher on Special Assignment, “TOSA”) and Ann-Marie Skaggs (former LCMSD TOSA) led our teachers and administrators through hands-on Project Lead the Way modules on biomedical engineering and computer science. When you support SPARK, you give our teachers and students amazing opportunities like this. Thank you!

SCHOOL NEWS

Green Team- Zero Waste Efforts at Cove Led by Mrs. Rosen, our Green Team members are hard at work! At Thursday’s assembly, they taught students how to sort their waste. They volunteer their time to help students sort their lunch waste each day. Last week, they conducted a waste audit to learn how we can improve our sorting, change our habits and reduce our waste. Don’t be surprised if your children start asking to sort their waste into trash, compost and recycling at home!

Parent Ed Executive Function Skill Building: Tips for Parents to Guide Your Child to Success Both In and Out of School Join Christine Leppones of EF Ninja, an executive function coach, as she returns to Hall Middle School to outline more tips to support parents--to help you help your child. She'll share strategies tied to concrete, real-world challenges and opportunities that you see your child face on a daily basis. For more information, click here. Two Dates: September 25, 7:00 pm, Hall Library, and September 26, 9:00 am, Hall Library.

PTO UPDATES

Spirit Wear Fridays Are Back! Show your school spirit by wearing your Cove Spirit Wear to school every Friday. No spirit wear? No problem! Wear our school color- blu

Spirit Wear Fridays Are Back! Show your school spirit by wearing your Cove Spirit Wear to school every Friday. No spirit wear? No problem! Wear our school color- blue!

Our next spirit wear sale is on Friday, Sept 27th in the Cove Courtyard at 8
Buy online anytime! Click here to purchase from our store on Zazzle

Save-The-Date! The Cove’s Annual Fall Family Picnic (& Costume Party!) Thursday, October 10th, 5:00pm to 7:00pm. Join us for tricks and treats at The Cove’s annual fall family get-together. Kindly RSVP in advance here. Questions? Contact Kari Stiffler, Cove PTO VP, Event.

SPARK NEWS

Fun Run We came, we ran, we had FUN! Thank you to our fantastic event co-chairs Jill Martay, Laura von Waldburg and Richard Martinez for an incredible event last week at the Village at Corte Madera. We loved seeing everyone out there and additional thanks to our top tier Biz partners The Village at Corte Madera, Microsoft, Sage Educators, Lola of North Beach, Sausalito Stationary, Mathnasium, and Bubble Street Gallery.

Have you made your Annual Giving Donation yet? Did you know that money raised this year goes directly to funding programs and materials for this school year? Your donation can be made online with automatic monthly installments or pledging now and paying later.

Biz Partner Opportunity Own a business? Would you like to get your business in front of more than 1,000 families who eat, drink, shop and live in Corte Madera and Larkspur in exchange for your support? Learn about becoming a Biz partner here. Deadline is Friday, October 4th, 2019.

Congratulations to our Annual Giving Raffle Winner Sara Buck & Chad Gerber You won the Fun Run Gift Basket, valued at over $500! Thank you for your early donation!

SPARK Needs Volunteers Like You! There’s a lot that goes on to raise $1.5M for our three schools and support the Foundation’s mission of providing quality education opportunities for our kids. We need your help to make it happen! Learn about volunteer opportunities here.

COMMUNITY NEWS

Please click link to view Community News that includes updates from:

Kids Coding Class
Marissa Joy Ganz NY Broadway Training Classes
Registration for St. Patrick CYO Basketball
The North Bay Science Discovery Day
Dedication to Special Education's 16th Annual Golf Tournament Fundraiser
Town Hall: Youth, School Policy, Parenting and the Law
An Evening With David and Nic Sheff, local authors of Beautiful
Boy and Tweak, moderated by Michael Krasny of KQED.
Motherload Screening

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